Knocking on wood, mine ha been flawless.Yeah I’ve heard of the single cylinder Courage engines having major issues with cylinder heads.
I would say it would make it HARDER as it is an obstruction along the way to the oil pump to evacuate air,On horizontal filter I put in enough to wet the media.
That alone should get the flow going faster.
I have done that but a filter used like that can be loaded up the night before and you can get a lotOn horizontal filter I put in enough to wet the media.
That alone should get the flow going faster.
If a slug of oil hitting parts was detrimental, you'd see damaged engines all over the place because the majority of oil changes do no involve pre-filling the oil filter.Then, For a while I half filled them. So the pump could push the air column out quickly, without a slug of oil travelling at
high speed like a bullet, then whacking into who knows what inside the engine.
There will be no slug of oil - compressed by an air column - with a filter that was NOT pre-filled.If a slug of oil hitting parts was detrimental, you'd see damaged engines all over the place because the majority of oil changes do no involve pre-filling the oil filter.
There will be no slug of oil - compressed by an air column - with a filter that was NOT pre-filled.
My exact point.
Thank you
Again do a partial fill on larger filters - but not all the way - unless you can also pre- fill the drill down to the oil pump.
I do this on the FB subaru by pouring oil in the filter adapter outlet and the inlet, then quickly screwing on the filter.
Actually a waste of my time as these dry start every morning to to an empty inverted filter.
Another Stupid Subaru engine design.
Time they go to a "slant" I4 and get away from this garbage engine design.
Shirley you jest.
Shirley you jest.
I never pre fill the little 7317 filter for my Honda but if I had a 2 qt filter I would consider it. However, as mentioned earlier the oil film is probably more than sufficient during the 2-3 sec it takes for the pump to fill the filter and other areas.I always prefill the 2 qt filter on my Silverado![]()
I guarantee someone on this site has bought a jig like this purely so they can pre-fill their horizontal filter.I don't pre-fill filters any more, because now I'm dealing with a horizontally oriented cartridge housing, which would be impossible to pre-fill without tilting the car over onto its right side.