Originally Posted By: HangFire
I just looked it over, everything inside looks perfect. (It's still sitting in the big funnel draining out, I usually leave stuff for a week to keep the oil out of the landfills).
I have two more new B1402's, they look good, too.
Just looked over my 3 new Hastings LF107's... different design.
On the Hastings, the ADBV is in the same place, covering the outer ring of inlet holes just like the Baldwin, but the coil spring is between the baseplate and the center tube. There is metal inner can between the coil spring and the outer circumference of the can, so the design is OK as far is separating inlet and outlet oil. Beyond that I can't see any problems, I will cut the can, but only after I use it. That'll probably be a year from now.
It could be that Baldwin has that problem with that one filter, or set of filters sharing that particular center tube. Right now I what I have looks good and I'll use them, but I'll cut every one when done.
Filter efficiency is another matter. I know not to make any judgments just by looking and guessing. I'll see what I can find out.
It's hard to see the gap on some. If the bypass could be removed it would be easier to check down in, or maybe cutting away the media at the bottom. I bought two then months later two more and three had the center tube not fully sealed at the bottom. On small clean engines it probably works OK. I still don't like the idea or ragged edge left exposed on the center tube bottom. This a picture I tried to take it's very hard to see though, some were a lot more than this that I sent back.
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