Dinged oil filters

[dogememe]

Nope, return.

 

[The motor guy]

Nope, return.

I've dinged up quite a few fram ultras just with my hands putting them on hand tight. Never had a problem. I've also dinged them up using my strap wrench. The corner of the hallow square put's a small dent in it sometimes even just tightening it up just a smidge more than what I can do with my scrawny little hands. I think those ultras are really thin metal to be honest. I've just never had on at the bottom like this one

 

[ZeeOSix]

You mean the bypass valve?

I was talking about the leaf spring, if it has one. Leaf spring and a bypass valve are two different things. Some bypass valves are located in the leaf spring, like seen in many Fram filters. Some filters like Purolator have a leaf spring, but the bypass valve is part of the end cap instead of the leaf spring.

I think it has a spring that's in the middle of the dome like you described. I also did not hear anything rattle around when I shook it. I looked at a youtube video that cut the filter open. It has a coil spring. I think it's okay. That ding may have pressed the endcap up just a smidge, hard to tell. Not sure if that matters, but I don't see anything that's going to cause any failure. I also don't think it has glue holding the endcap against the filter like I thought which was my concern that possibly the glue could have broken off, but that's not the case here. There isn't any.

Yeah, it's probably fine since it has a coil spring and not a leaf spring. The only other remote possible failure point is that it could start leaking if the can is thin and the metal got creased enough to cause a stress riser and crack from repeated pulsations during use.

 

[The motor guy]

I was talking about the leaf spring, if it has one. Leaf spring and a bypass valve are two different things. Some bypass valves are located in the leaf spring, like seen in many Fram filters. Some filters like Purolator have a leaf spring, but the bypass valve is part of the end cap instead of the leaf spring.


Yeah, it's probably fine since it has a coil spring and not a leaf spring. The only other remote possible failure point is that it could start leaking if the can is thin and the metal got creased enough to cause a stress riser and crack from repeated pulsations during use.

What do these springs do?

 

[ZeeOSix]

What do these springs do?

A leaf spring does the same thing as a coil spring in the dome end of the can. An oil filter will use either a leaf spring or a coil spring. They both put a force on the media cartridge and ADBV in the can to keep it all tight inside the can.

 

[The motor guy]

When they’re creased on the ends of the dent like that, the flexing (from oil pump pulses) can cause a crack. For what Fleetguard filters cost, the shipper needed to do a better job-a lot of my poorly packaged OG Ultra 6 packs from eBay (a few years back) would have a couple with fairly major dents. They went back or got scrapped!

It's almost to the point where the ding has popped back out lol

 

[The motor guy]

I've dinged up quite a few fram ultras just with my hands putting them on hand tight. Never had a problem. I've also dinged them up using my strap wrench. The corner of the hallow square put's a small dent in it sometimes even just tightening it up just a smidge more than what I can do with my scrawny little hands. I think those ultras are really thin metal to be honest. I've just never had on at the bottom like this one

Same here. The filter on my cummins almost always gets a small ding either by my hand because I dont have a good place to grab it, or because I decide to give it an extra little nudge with the filter wrench. Everytime I've removed an oil filter from tbat truck I only installed by hand it was totally broken loose by hand the next time I went to change it. I mean an 8th of a turn and it was loose which makes me nervous.

 

[50yr Street Mech]

Not a terrible ding. I would use it

 

[The motor guy]

Not a terrible ding. I would use it

I only run it for a year or so on the boat, so I wasnt worried. Usually only 50-60hrs

 

[ZeeOSix]

Same here.

That's because you replied to yourself.

 

[53' Stude]

I guess it's it's just one. The other one was already installed. It looks bigger in the Pic, but it's on the bottom off towards the edge somewhat as shown.

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If you saw my Toyota filter I cut and posted you should know to just cut it open. It’s not worth an engine failure.

 

[The motor guy]

The oil filter won't fail in the PICS the OP shared.

The ding is actually continuing to get smaller and smaller, so I dont think its actually flexing back and forth.