New WIX 51348 Cut Open

[MurkyAsparagus]

On the cutter this evening is a new WIX 51348. I got a shipment in of PG241s and honestly have no urge to run this filter. I would much rather see what it looks like.

Filter has some black glue, as many of the WIX filters from the last several years have had. Pictures below.

 

[OilStained]

Thanks for the post. It’s always nice to get to see an unused oil filter opened.

If I were to get Wix, it’d be an XP.

 

[McRightclick]

Is the excess glue hard or soft and flaky?

 

[DCDG]

On the cutter this evening is a new WIX 51348. I got a shipment in of PG241s and honestly have no urge to run this filter. I would much rather see what it looks like.

Filter has some black glue, as many of the WIX filters from the last several years have had. Pictures below.

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'n Good!

 

[MurkyAsparagus]

Is the excess glue hard or soft and flaky?

Soft and flaky, black glue of death.

 

[DCDG]

stuff that'll never make it through the filter

 

[ARCOgraphite]

WIX in name only. WIX is long gone.
Looks Motorcraftolator

"Oh, what a world, what a world!"

 

[McRightclick]

stuff that'll never make it through the filter

And what if you have a bypass event? Now you've got glue chunks flying through your oil pump and headed who knows where.

 

[grasscutter]

"If you can't say anything nice, don't day anything at all."

 

[Zee09]

As Dionne Warwick said in 1964
Walk on by...

 

[DCDG]

And what if you have a bypass event? Now you've got glue chunks flying through your oil pump and headed who knows where.

I am most certain 100% this has happened to me and every motorist on the road it would not be the failure as you want to believe it to be

 

[Zazookie-2000]

And what if you have a bypass event? Now you've got glue chunks flying through your oil pump and headed who knows where.

Pretty sure it goes right into the main gallery if the glue gets by the bypass valve

 

[ZeeOSix]

The main gallery feeds the entire oiling system.

The same junk glue used on Motorcraft filters have been found in drain pans, so it can get past the filter through the bypass valve and sent through the oiling system.

 

[OilStained]

Soft and flaky, black glue of death.

Could it be due to age? Who’s our resident date code decoder, @CleanSump

 

[ZeeOSix]

Date code looks to be Oct 2, 2024.

 

[OilStained]

Not @CleanSump

Could it be due to age? Who’s our resident date code decoder, @CleanSump

 

[CleanSump]

Could it be due to age? Who’s our resident date code decoder, @CleanSump

Nope. Z is the oil filter guy. I'm just the grumpy guy.