Re: OT: Oversized Oil Filter on Cars

Posted by Nolan on October 14, 2005 at 07:15:01 from (167.102.133.164):

In Reply to: OT: Oversized Oil Filter on Cars posted by Vinnie on October 14, 2005 at 04:07:50:

Spend a little time with the Baldwin filter catalog and you'll be able to figure out which filters will fit your vehicle, with the proper or acceptable valving and such. It's not hard to find at least a dozen alternatives. The catalog is on the web btw.

There is a mild downside to larger filters. They take longer to fill up, and oil pressure takes longer to build up as a result. This is mostly a problem on the initial fire up after changing the filter. Some fret over it, some don't. I haven't seem solid evidence of a problem with this myself.

I equally don't see a problem with running a small filter. If your engine is shedding metal particals so fast the filter blinds from them because of its size, you've got far more serious issues to deal with than a small filter.

One nice thing you can do with the catalog is look up all your vehicles and see if perhaps you can switch to a standard filter. I've four different vehicles here at home, all calling for different filters. By researching, I was able to go with just one single filter on all the vehicles, which incidentally wasn't specified for any of them.

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