Recent content by Mewbs

Did you start your car with the solvent contaminated oil after your piston soak to smoke it before changing your oil or did you change your oil immediately after the soak and start your car? If you have some used oil left from that drain if you didn't dump it out yet, try to get it analyzed.

Pretty sure that VRP 0W-20 has been tinned out from the start by left over solvents from your piston soak... Kinda dangerous.

Seems more like a depth filtration type media where that spongy style media try to capture as much particulate matter inside the medium instead of the commonly surface filtration you see with cellulose and blend media. I don't think any of us can be conclusive about its effectiveness without...

They have some good hardware I kinda want one. Other than their EPR flush and 44K which in my experience with my own vehicles, family and friends; all have had a positive experience. I find their MOA and other additives iffy, they seemed to be pushed around here by local dealerships.

Its depressing much decline of manufacturing pride we're seeing here these days. I'm glad to discover this place and your wisdom shared here. Think I have enough OG Titaniums to last me a good 10 to 20 years, since I'm not driving 100 miles a day anymore. But changes in life can always lead...

Unfortunate that you encountered this problem too. Seems like they're press fitting these center cores into the media that molded glue ring cracks around them. I also moved on from Toyota filters as well after the same experience; sticking with OG Fram Ultra/Titanium, Donaldson & Fleetguard...

Extra photos of me pulling off the end caps.

That's a lot of spot weld dimples for such a small filter. Looks great overall as expected from Baldwin.

Makes me feel warm and fuzzy I managed to horde these into my prepper stash. Truely a relic of its time and continue to be when some of us cut these open again in the future. Thanks for sharing.

Finally had some free time to pull the end caps off. Surprisingly this one didn't give much of a fight. One side endcap which had pleating potting stress pulled out with little effort where as the other endcap gave me a good fight to pull off with pliers. Media has been wicked dry for several...

Media looks great, thanks for sharing.

I use a cap wrench and torque all my filters regardless of vehicle make to 9 to 9.5 foot pounds with a torque wrench which is roughly over 1 full turn after gasket contact. Its what Toyota universally spec's when using their SST cap wrench tool on all their spin-ons but have found it to work...

My thoughts on Baldwin: Good old brand that makes your typical run of the mill filters, its what every old guy out there swears by due to their build quality. The reality: Their standard cellulose media products are nothing special unless its the MPG line with synthetic media which some are...

Fleetguard is as close as it gets to Cummins OEM, they spun off from Cummins Filtration under a new parent called Atmus Filtration. They still do supply OEM filters to Cummins and other OEMs. As for their market coverage is very confined in the Heavy Duty equipment space. Both Donaldson and...

Looks like its OEM by Baldwin, same louver and gasket sealed bypass spring assembly design as their usual heavy duty filters. They normally have a 2 piece ADBV from my experience of cutting their red cans open at work.