Originally Posted By: jk_636
Originally Posted By: Falken
Lucky that filter didn't have a tear, or the engine would have sucked up all that grit and your engine would have lost compression especially after the 40 mile trip home.
Give me a break! You cant really be serious! This guys
sinks his jeep,
hydrolocks it,
has to do emergency maintenance in the field and you are telling him that a tear in one pleat would have doomed his jeep forever?
Thank you, but you know what? He's kinda right.
Now I don't know anything of Pure 1 oil filters tearing, and still trust them as the most economical good filter that I like.
But for that next-day oil change I bought a 2.5 gallon container of oil so that I would have a container (I plan on getting a better one) to bring along clean oil, and I will be taking a new (albeit cheap) filter with me just in case this ends up being a problem for any of us again.
I am new to the Keeping scene, and one of the gents with the group who gave me support while trying to get it running again said it was pretty common to hydrolock at least one Jeep on these Florida outings. That tells me that, yes, one of us should bring along spare cheap oil, a catch-container, and a spare filter so that any Jeep suffering this fate will be a little better off after pulling it out.