Fram TG3614 off 22RE 5321 miles cut open

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Originally Posted by joekingcorvette
Looks great especially for the high mileage on the vehicle. Those Toyotas must be built pretty good! Thanks for the C&P.

Hopefully it goes another 60,000 miles. Shooting for 400,000 on the original engine. At only about 10,000 miles a year it will take me 6 years to get there. But the engine so far has been fantastic for the 85,000 miles I've put on it, knock on wood.
 
UOA for this Filter Cut, full description over in the UOA section, for those too lazy to search, link ------------->CLICK HERE

4Runner 15w30SD.webp
 
Originally Posted by FlyNavyP3
This is a Tractor Supply Fram clearance filter that was in use for 5321 miles on my 4Runner. 213 hours of driving time and 102 idling total of 315 hours this go round with a moving average of 25 MPH. Filter was in use March to September, almost exactly 6 months to the day. Oil used was Delo 15w30 SD, UOA to follow.

It almost looks edible. Like a chocolate covered pastry or something. Every one of these I've seen so far leaves me scratching my head thinking" I dunno how biu that thing looks fine still".
 
Originally Posted by Ablebody
Originally Posted by FlyNavyP3
This is a Tractor Supply Fram clearance filter that was in use for 5321 miles on my 4Runner. 213 hours of driving time and 102 idling total of 315 hours this go round with a moving average of 25 MPH. Filter was in use March to September, almost exactly 6 months to the day. Oil used was Delo 15w30 SD, UOA to follow.

It almost looks edible. Like a chocolate covered pastry or something. Every one of these I've seen so far leaves me scratching my head thinking" I dunno how biu that thing looks fine still".


I was also impressed with how well the filter held up. Although a little disappointed by the high insoluables which I've had pretty much this engine's entire life with me. The only thing I can figure is the high insoluables are due to blow by and are far too fine to be filtered out by a full flow filter.
 
Originally Posted by FlyNavyP3
Originally Posted by Ablebody
Originally Posted by FlyNavyP3
This is a Tractor Supply Fram clearance filter that was in use for 5321 miles on my 4Runner. 213 hours of driving time and 102 idling total of 315 hours this go round with a moving average of 25 MPH. Filter was in use March to September, almost exactly 6 months to the day. Oil used was Delo 15w30 SD, UOA to follow.

It almost looks edible. Like a chocolate covered pastry or something. Every one of these I've seen so far leaves me scratching my head thinking" I dunno how biu that thing looks fine still".


I was also impressed with how well the filter held up. Although a little disappointed by the high insoluables which I've had pretty much this engine's entire life with me. The only thing I can figure is the high insoluables are due to blow by and are far too fine to be filtered out by a full flow filter.

You might be a good candidate for the microgreen
 
Originally Posted by FlyNavyP3
Although a little disappointed by the high insoluables which I've had pretty much this engine's entire life with me. The only thing I can figure is the high insoluables are due to blow by and are far too fine to be filtered out by a full flow filter.


The insoluables is a pretty useless UOA parameter to judge the filter's performance. Need an ISO particle count.
 
Originally Posted by ZeeOSix
Originally Posted by FlyNavyP3
Although a little disappointed by the high insoluables which I've had pretty much this engine's entire life with me. The only thing I can figure is the high insoluables are due to blow by and are far too fine to be filtered out by a full flow filter.


The insoluables is a pretty useless UOA parameter to judge the filter's performance. Need an ISO particle count.


In my experience with PC on Automotive UOA it's always "dirty" even on vehicles with low insoluables like my former ES330 Lexus which showed a better PC with a cheap no name filter than a Fram Ultra. Seems to be a fools errand to use them on something that is so dirty compared to a sealed lube system like a hydraulic system. I'm not concerned and I'll likely continue with 5k changes on the old 4Runner.
 
I think something went wrong with the bad PC on your Ultra. There are other PCs posted of other Ultra's and TGs (both 99% at 20u) that had much cleaner PCs.
 
Originally Posted by ZeeOSix
I think something went wrong with the bad PC on your Ultra. There are other PCs posted of other Ultra's and TGs (both 99% at 20u) that had much cleaner PCs.


That's entirely possible, but due to the cost associated with the PC and not really getting the info I desired I probably won't continue with the PC.
 
Originally Posted by ZeeOSix
What's Blackstone charge for a particle count?


I don't actually know, but I do know that adding TAN and PC over a Blackstone analysis with TBN doubled the cost of the analysis. I'm curious and the UOA thing is a hobby but I'm not DOUBLE THE PRICE curious.
 
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