Dirty gritty drained oil when I did the oil change today

j.arnaldo · 03-20-2010, 11:50 AM

Considering the fact that the oil filter element's the core an oil filter, it figures that the better the filtering element is, the less contaminated the oil's gonna come out at oil-change time. But, I'm the first the admit that I'm neither an engineer nor a mechanic, so just ignore my logical conclusion, which may not have too much logic at all due to my lack of expertise on these issues. Mostly, I depend on guys like you and your experiences and related searches.

kannibul · 03-20-2010, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by j.arnaldo

Considering the fact that the oil filter element's the core an oil filter, it figures that the better the filtering element is, the less contaminated the oil's gonna come out at oil-change time. But, I'm the first the admit that I'm neither an engineer nor a mechanic, so just ignore my logical conclusion, which may not have too much logic at all due to my lack of expertise on these issues. Mostly, I depend on guys like you and your experiences and related searches.

The particles that drained out the pan were too heavy to get picked up and filtered.

I imagine when he drains it again for the test, he should get some more, as draining it once likely didn't get it all.

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03-20-2010, 11:50 AM	#1 (permalink)
j.arnaldo Banned Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 937 Drives: Nissan 350Z, 2004 Rep Power: 0	Considering the fact that the oil filter element's the core an oil filter, it figures that the better the filtering element is, the less contaminated the oil's gonna come out at oil-change time. But, I'm the first the admit that I'm neither an engineer nor a mechanic, so just ignore my logical conclusion, which may not have too much logic at all due to my lack of expertise on these issues. Mostly, I depend on guys like you and your experiences and related searches.