Oil filter autopsy: let s look inside the filter of a sludge filled engine!
come fix your car…
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they make a little can opener thing to cut into oil filters cleetus has one
The next day: The side-cutting can opener is created
Eeeeeewweww!
Now that's a can of 'Woop ass'!
not much point in opening it up, as we all saw what it was bypassing, had to have as the engine would have gotten so worn it'd have been shot to the breeze. Haa
Use a oil filter 'socket' (wrench) on the scalloped end of the filter to keep it from turning. Also, compare the filter elements between the two. Project Farm did a YouTube video on various oil filter brands.
When that tool truck comes around you must be like a kid going to an ice-cream truck.
Please answer the Phone!
Good work, Ray. It was a good demonstration of the importance of routine maintenance. The word maintenance still carries meaning. . .
great video.
This was like a hockey game going into overtime this at 0-0. The filter canister almost won !!!
why not put that filter cap tool for a ratchet wrench in the vise to hold the oil filter
You'll get along better with a Tupperware can opener
Adding the normal used filter as a "control" was very edifying , thank you for the extra effort.
Rubber spacer on the clamp will help you with this process. Less clamping force, also, think about using the gripping clamps that don't smash the filter (circular ones that tighten with tension). Still super helpful to see what filters do and what bad looks like. Good on your team (and you, of course) at trying to reach out for preventative maintenance.
Hey Ray, next time you grease your air tools, show a little love to your bench vice!
Hacksaw………..just saying
I like intellectual curiosity…So much "useless information" turns out to be useful somewhere down the road. I'm betting he lost his engine by not dropping the pan.
Hacksaw on an oil filter is a lot easier and will cut the thin tin like butter.
It's like a pipe cutter on steroids.
Put a cup type oil filter socket in your vise next time to hold the filter while you cut.
Ahhhh, can’t spell vice fingers to big.
Squeaky Viv Ray needs lubricant desperately 😖
I was wondering why you didn't use a hacksaw to cut open the filter, then you figured out how best to use the tool on the second filter. Excellent video Ray!
Sawzall works every time
Hey Ray
This is what I would call a pipe cutter – for ceramic pipes.
You do as you did. But the application of the 'locking' arm causes even and multiple fractures around the circumference of the ceramic pipe and making a reasonable clean cut.
It isn't for opening thin metal containers such as oil filters.
Which explains why you struggled somewhat.
Ray a couple of things, is this a Napa oil filter commercial? takes a beating keeps on working—– Please buy a dremel with a cut off wheel–you'll never go back…..
also idea for you; next time instead of putting it in a vice, get one of those ratchet cups that fits the filter, apply light pressure to the handle on the cutter and just use an impact drill to spin the filter til it cuts through.
Oil? I would say it's chocolate sauce.
Another great video Ray. A good way to compare different filter brands for a given rig is laying the paper element out and compare overall length. I saw a filter comparison done on a PSD and it was amazing…all new filters but their build quality and quality of design and materials varied GREATLY!! I hadnt had a problem with using Fram…until I saw this comparison.
I would have loved to see the filter on the Toyota as I recall with the spun bearing that you saved..that pan was scary bad with metal! Also the filter on the locked up Toyota you bought from the customer who had it towed in.
Keep up the great work!!!
That sure was easy!
Filter doing its job 😊
I'm guessing a muffler will put up a better fight then that filter did. You wasted your money on that.
What do mechanics do when they're bored you just witnessed it
Would a 1mm cutting disc been easier to cut open the filter ? 🤔
Never seen anything like it !
Yuck 🤢
I remember this Italian gentlemen who was driving a car he purchased 4 years prior and had had no issues , when asked him that he must servicing it regularly he went on to explain to me that it was all bullsh-t The only thing he did was add oil . When I spoke to a mechanic years later asking him that surly the sludge build up would block the filter he went on to explained that was the reason theirs a purge valve .
Dump the stupid tool and use a hacksaw
Please do not force your tools let your tool do it's work and you would have cut the filter good, I have cut a lot of filters but only did what you did once then someone told me about not forcing your tool.🙂
You forgot to yell time after the new tool opening
What is the (Best Motor Flush?), in Your opinion??…to degunk and remove sludge, to run through motor, right before an oil change and filter replacement?
"That's what she said" 🤣🤣
First rule of a great mechanic. Use the right tool for the job get oil filter cutter. And just stop trying to take unnecessary short cuts they always end up being long.
I do enjoy watching work with new tools. You make me laugh. That is a pipe chain cutter. You don't put it on and wiggle it. You open the jaws fully, attach the chain tight and then as you close the jaw it tightens and causes the pipe to snap. It will not work very well on soft metal as its job is to fracture the steel. Usually used by plumbers to cut cast iron pipes would also snap off a tail pipe. Most are ratcheting as it is very hard to squeeze to cut a pipe. You bought a very very cheap one. but watching you try to cut the filter was my idiot of the day video… thanks for not reading the instructions for your tools…lol
Most who cut those filters open use a Drama with a cutting wheel along that top edge under the lip and it comes apart like a sauce can
oil filter diarrhea
Ray, what do you use to do an oil flush?
This is why most people use a small hack saw. Mine is cartrage type no canister.
I can hear The Outfield from their album Play Deep….lol.