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I'm not really concerned with this filter having louvers. I've installed plenty of filters on my truck with louvers and haven't really given it a second thought.
No love for Baldwin filters? Should I be looking for an alternative?
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I'm not really concerned with this filter having louvers. I've installed plenty of filters on my truck with louvers and haven't really given it a second thought.
They look well formed on that one. But there have been plenty of other brands of filters with badly formed louvers. Every filter regardless of brand using louvers needs a good visual inspection of the center tube.
Thanks! Definitely PGI made. First one I’ve ever seen with louvers.
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I had a Bosch workshop filter do that years back. Attached a copy of my review - 4 people found my post helpful so wonder if they also had the same issue.
If threads had an incorrect taper it could cause them to come loose - not enough surface mating friction. However I find this to be extremely unlikely - even if the tooling was very worn out.
Without retightening and waiting to see if it comes loose again, it would be very hard to say if it was a product issue or just wasn't tightened enough the first time.
Without retightening and waiting to see if it comes loose again, it would be very hard to say if it was a product issue or just wasn't tightened enough the first time.
If this happened to me, I think retightening (to a slightly greater torque than recommended) would be a good way to test the idea that the filter has a problem that causes it to self-loosen. While there is a greater problem of overtightening oil filters, the fact of the matter is that hand tightening allows for inherent human error - like in this case, where we are relying on correct recollection of completing the tightening process - and secondly, the issue of defining "hand-tight" is necessarily subjective, and even so is point of contact. Human perception, strength, attention all vary by possibly two or three hundred percent person to person.
I've been through several hundreds of oil changes, and have had an incident or two (slashed gasket on filter, stripped oil fill plug, and even spilling six quarts on the ground by filling without a plug or filter installed, collapsing ramp), but never experienced this.
Over the years, I have spilled enough oil that EPA should investigate.
LOL!!
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Over tightening ruins flat gaskets too and they lose their strength. Like hose washers that become a useless hard piece of crushed rubber.
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You are welcome!
As stated above, I'm not really concerned with holes vs. louvers. As long as I'm getting good flow distribution and no DP issues I'm happy.
I do wonder if this filter has the same filtering media cause that 15 micron rating had me sold. I would think the filter would have the same media since it was made Vietnam and I don't see the benefit/efficiencies to using different components for a one off filter size here and there but here we are with a filter that has louvers as opposed to holes.....
Baldwin is fine. They were probably the first to start using sub 12 micron rated oil filters. Far as I know they still use paper. It works, it's worked for decades.
Saw it written on a clay tablet in cuneiform, a while ago....
Baldwin is a great filter; they pay attention to manufactures specifications. Can't go wrong with Baldwin, just not a lot of dealers in certain areas.
If anyone is interested in Baldwin filters, found this list of the spin-on lube filters they make. Some show efficiency specs, and some don't.
https://ph.baldwinfilters.com/baldwin/en/product-list/baldwin-spin-on-lube-filters
https://ph.baldwinfilters.com/baldwin/en/product-list/baldwin-spin-on-lube-filters
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B281 has the same threads, longer, might fit, don't know. Same bird nests and small pebbles micron rating, which, of course matches the OEM specs.
