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Small oil filter on big motor
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Joel
LAGA,
I have a 1997 5.7l GM Tahoe now at 130K miles. I was worried about the same thing (dinky filter) when I got it. Yea, the size of a small soup can.
I got it at 36K and all of it's life was 3K OCI except three runs of 6K with Syntec. I was biased tword low OCI in part due to filter size.
Despite using many FRAM filters it consumes zero oil in 3K and 2/3 qt in 6K with the Syntec 5W30.
After the three runs of 6K I did a normal 3K OCI and the filter seemed 'heavy'(22oz). I consider the engine to run 'clean' so filters always seemed 'light' upon removal. I can't prove this scientifically (I have attempted to document this by weighing filters before/after but on a different/new vehicle.)
Probably no need to worry but I worry nevertheless.
I have a 1997 5.7l GM Tahoe now at 130K miles. I was worried about the same thing (dinky filter) when I got it. Yea, the size of a small soup can.
I got it at 36K and all of it's life was 3K OCI except three runs of 6K with Syntec. I was biased tword low OCI in part due to filter size.
Despite using many FRAM filters it consumes zero oil in 3K and 2/3 qt in 6K with the Syntec 5W30.
After the three runs of 6K I did a normal 3K OCI and the filter seemed 'heavy'(22oz). I consider the engine to run 'clean' so filters always seemed 'light' upon removal. I can't prove this scientifically (I have attempted to document this by weighing filters before/after but on a different/new vehicle.)
Probably no need to worry but I worry nevertheless.
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Does the use of a filter brand usually cause consumption of oil?
I see so much dissing of FRAM by "experts" on all kinds of forums referring to outdated minimopar study ...not that I luv em but I keep open mind....and you can get good results.
I am going to stick with my original plan- 6 month OCI with 3 month filter changes. I put 800 miles on the truck so far so I dumped the factory oil and put in GC. It made a noticeable difference in the sound of the engine, smoother and quieter. I also put a pretty good burn on my arm, boy those catalytic converters get hot.
I wouldn't worry about it. The amount of particle load on modern engines seems to be very low. The crankcase is a closed system, blow-by is minimal and modern machining is pretty darn good. I highly doubt that the little filter is ever going to approach fully loaded conditions in use.
ive got a 79 corvette with a 350 i use a hastings lf 279. the reason i went to this was that chevy changed the numbers and sizes of filters. i looked up the filter in the book and the new ac delco filter number was a pf 454.i went to get the filter from the rack, expecting a pf 35 look-alike, much to my surprise the filter was 1/3 the size of the pf 35. How in the H@@$$ can a tea cup filter the same amount of oil as a coffe pot? All i know is that it would take an oil filter with the capacity of 2 quarts to filter all the oil during operation of the vehicle. As it is the approximate quart and a half of the pf 35 (hastings lf279) does an adequate job of filtering most of the oil.
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