Originally Posted by Guber2
Originally Posted by Guber2
I had an old guy tell me once "a piss poor mechanic blames his equipment. :wink:
A filer only keeps the big piece's out :wink:
A collapsed filter also keeps the oil out and actually the screen on the pick-up tube keeps the big pieces out.
An engine with quite a few miles on it will have a certain amount of junk in the crankcase. When the filter has collapsed it not only is lowering the amount of oil the engine gets, but the majority of the oil that is circulating is doing so through the open by-pass. So instead of getting a decent volume of clean oil for the bearings, you are getting an inadequate amount of dirty oil.
If filtering an engine's oil isn't important then why do all modern engines have one? Maybe it's just there so the piss-poor mechanics have something to blame their mistakes on.