Purolator pureone 14670 cut open

[MrRPM]

I cut my old oil filter open today that was used on my jeep wrangler 4.0L 3 months ago (its been sitting in the barn for 3 months)

The ADBV worked great as the filter was still full of oil when it had been sitting on its side the whole time.

The filter has 3k miles on it with Mobil 1 TDT 5w-40 (i know better now)

no signs of metal in the filter and the filter is still feels solid, no rips or anything like that.

I don't really like how some of the pleats aren't evenly spaced but other then that it looks great even though it only has 3k miles on it. ADBV was still very flexible. this is my first filter I have cut open. Ill have a PL30001 next time

 

[440Magnum]

Originally Posted By: MrRPM


I don't really like how some of the pleats aren't evenly spaced but other then that it looks great even though it only has 3k miles on it. ADBV was still very flexible. this is my first filter I have cut open. Ill have a PL30001 next time


I never worry much about pleat spacing. Worry more about torn pleats or pleats separated from the end-cap, things like that.

For what its worth, if it isn't physically too long you can run a PL30001 in place of that PL14670. The threads, gasket, bypass pressure, and ADBV are all identical. I've run the PL30001 on every vehicle I've owned that called for a 14760. Keeps me from buying two different filter types, and gives the cars that called for the 14670 about0 40-50% more media area.

 

[zorobabel]

Originally Posted By: 440Magnum

I never worry much about pleat spacing. Worry more about torn pleats or pleats separated from the end-cap, things like that.

On the 2 filters with pleats torn at the end-cap I found, it was the spaced out pleats that got torn.

 

[MrRPM]

Im running a PL30001 now already =)

and as for the pleats not being spaced consistently. I just feel like the pleats with wider spacing will have more oil pushed threw it and could tear eventually or at the least the spread pleats are probably weaker since they are angled differently to oil flow.

for a 3k oci its not a problem but if i was to run this filter to 6-8k i might worry

 

[440Magnum]

Originally Posted By: MrRPM
Im running a PL30001 now already =)

and as for the pleats not being spaced consistently. I just feel like the pleats with wider spacing will have more oil pushed threw it and could tear eventually or at the least the spread pleats are probably weaker since they are angled differently to oil flow.

for a 3k oci its not a problem but if i was to run this filter to 6-8k i might worry


I'd worry more about pleats jammed TOO close together not having space for oil to flow between them. But if the widest pleats aren't so wide that they tear and the narrowest pleats are still wide enough to allow free oil flow, then the oil flow across all of them is equal even though the spacing may vary somewhat. The pressure is the same all the way around the outside of the can across all pleats regardless of spacing, and the same is true of the center of the filter. Its just like equivalent resistors in parallel.

 

[boxcartommie22]

just like i said earlier..i just have seen so many paper media's come apart and gets into the engines..and most people don't even know it!!media starts out widening and tearing at the seams and some pleats narrows causing plugging...i learned a lesson long long time ago that the public is being scammed by paper filters for oil filtration...no matter what brand..happens in alot of fords which have a killer oil pump!!tons of flow..

 

[johnachak]

So what kind of filters do you suggest?

 

[volk06]

Not this paper vs steel filter debate yet again......sigh

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: boxcartommie22
just like i said earlier..i just have seen so many paper media's come apart and gets into the engines..and most people don't even know it!!


What filters and what engines specifically?