I did an oil change on a friend's 02 Merc Sable with the 24V motor. I did it a while back and used Motorcraft FL800s and chevron 5w20.
so my friend decided she needed another oil change at 2200 miles, against my advice of leave it alone till 5000... so she goes to sears, and what's done is done.
So she asks me to do another oil change because she's at 3000 miles. So I goto Walmart, and get a motorcraft FL800S and 6 quarts of motorcraft 5w20, just to keep things original out of boredom. (they didn't have any maxlife 5w20 anyway).
So I get the oil out, and the filter.. well it was overtightened, of course. the drain plug POPPED when I got it loosened up. No threads stripped tho!
So I get the filter loose. Not 1 drop of oil drips down or even out of it. I got it out and inside was empty.
the filter sits facing up, so it should've had oil in it.
the insides were wet so I know was in there at some point.
the filter was branded profilter, never heard of them.
the p/n was: L24651, which is a purolator number, but the filter size itself was easily 3/4" shorter than the FL850S, but it fit, and didn't leak so that was good.
I'm guessing from the p/n of the profilter, it was a purolator hybrid. I know the purolator's aren't that short to begin with.
Needless to say, the mystery to me.. why was there no oil sitting in that filter? the level was only 1/2qt low before I emptied the pan.
so my friend decided she needed another oil change at 2200 miles, against my advice of leave it alone till 5000... so she goes to sears, and what's done is done.
So she asks me to do another oil change because she's at 3000 miles. So I goto Walmart, and get a motorcraft FL800S and 6 quarts of motorcraft 5w20, just to keep things original out of boredom. (they didn't have any maxlife 5w20 anyway).
So I get the oil out, and the filter.. well it was overtightened, of course. the drain plug POPPED when I got it loosened up. No threads stripped tho!
So I get the filter loose. Not 1 drop of oil drips down or even out of it. I got it out and inside was empty.
the filter sits facing up, so it should've had oil in it.
the insides were wet so I know was in there at some point.
the filter was branded profilter, never heard of them.
the p/n was: L24651, which is a purolator number, but the filter size itself was easily 3/4" shorter than the FL850S, but it fit, and didn't leak so that was good.
I'm guessing from the p/n of the profilter, it was a purolator hybrid. I know the purolator's aren't that short to begin with.
Needless to say, the mystery to me.. why was there no oil sitting in that filter? the level was only 1/2qt low before I emptied the pan.
