No, it was a Cherry Bomb with the red paint. I watched that one waiting for him to sand the rust off and remove the paint. It never happened. To be fair, he did say he was no welder, so I guess that job proved it.
This guy says pre-filling an oil filter is bad and that all manufacturers say so.
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The Cummins trainer that taught the classes I took said to fill the oil filter since it had no priming procedure and put the fuel filters on dry since they could be primed while on the truck.
I love to prime oil filters. Even if it makes a big mess.
My 2 cents, master certified mechanics fill their filters when changing their own 🛢 oil. Nuff said
He did not clean the base before installing the filter. How often does little bit of debris cause a leak? I will continue to pre-fill and lubricate the gasket.
IMO it is a waste of time to prefill an oil filter. It only takes about 2 seconds for the filter to fill and the system to pressurize after the engine is started. The engine is not going to be damaged by this, particularly in view of the fact that the engine is not under a load when it is started, and all of the bearings still have some oil in them from having been recently run (they are not dry). I don't recommend that anybody try this, but you can idle an engine without any oil in it for a substantial length of time without causing any major damage, but it will quickly seize as soon as you put a load on it.
Try with push button startWorks every time.
The new gasoline or none diesel engines I built I always pre-primed them. They ALL had mechanical oil pressure gauges connected during that process. In the rare exception the oil pressure was developed within seconds using an oil primer and hand drill. In the case no easy way to use a oil primer, removing the spark plugs and spinning the engine developed Oil pressure within seconds These were on new engine with EMPTY new oil filters.
On a normally run engine if oil pressure is not developed within a few second after the engine starts you get a RED engine light. An engine in service still has oil to protect it during the first few seconds of start up to fill the dry/empty oil filter. It takes a few minutes to really harm an engine that has no oil pressure unless the engine is used in high RPM immediately after you start up. Who does that? And who continues to run the engine when the RED engine light is on?
I have rarely seen any shop of DIY that is completely sanitary during a routine oil change. I had a engine assembly clean room and I still needed to clean the "clean room" from time to time for dust. LOL
On a normally run engine if oil pressure is not developed within a few second after the engine starts you get a RED engine light. An engine in service still has oil to protect it during the first few seconds of start up to fill the dry/empty oil filter. It takes a few minutes to really harm an engine that has no oil pressure unless the engine is used in high RPM immediately after you start up. Who does that? And who continues to run the engine when the RED engine light is on?
I have rarely seen any shop of DIY that is completely sanitary during a routine oil change. I had a engine assembly clean room and I still needed to clean the "clean room" from time to time for dust. LOL
Counterpoint, it's not harming it to be prefilled assuming no contamination, and prefilling only takes seconds to do so. If you can do it without spilling it.
Reminds me when I saw a couple of young guys who didn't know much about cars do an oil change - think it was the first car they ever owned. They were doing the work on top of an incline for some reason, so they decided to roll the car down the incline to a more level spot and drain the oil. Then they fire up the engine and drive it back up the incline with no oil in it - I was standing there going
. The engine was starting to make some ticking and knocking noises by the time they got it back up to where they wanted to finish the job - rods and mains were probably not happy. That probably did some slight damage/wear on the bearings, but it seemed to still run OK after new oil was put into it. I told them that what they just did wasn't good for the engine and explained why, and they obviously had zero clue about how engines work by the look on their faces.
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Most people aren't suggesting there's any negative to doing, just that there's no real need to do it. Keep pre-filling them - it's not hurting anything.
Does that actually work??I keep the gas pedal to the floor and crank the engine over until the oil pressure builds up. Works every time.
i am also with the pre-fill group. As long as everything is clean, I see no harm in this practice.
I got mixed feelings on this guy, he's a bit of a hack in some of the videos, but there aren't many folks in shops that would put rod bearings in a knocking engine left...
Another thing is the size of the filter itself. The filter on my Toyota is tiny compared to the full size PH-8A on my 5.0 Ford V-8. Which takes much longer to fill. The less an engine runs without oil pressure, the better. It takes almost no time to pre fill a filter with fresh oil. So why not do it?
I understand the reason to pre-fill a vertically mounted filter, but how do I pre-fill my filter??
Yes it does.
Is your vehicles engines fuel injection system controlled by the PCM? I'm guessing when the gas pedal is floored it shuts down the fuel system?
Someone with more knowledge want to help me out here?
I don't fill the tiny, sideways mounted filters. But you can add enough to soak the filter media.I understand the reason to pre-fill a vertically mounted filter, but how do I pre-fill my filter??
Don't worry if you add too much; it will spill out correcting your mistake.
Don't ask me how I know...
Priming a filter is usually not bad and kind of fun in a " I have time to burn " scenario.
Priming a filter from any unfiltered source is not best practice.
All kinds of things occur in manufacturing and distribution.
Oil from a drum may contain a partial thread from the bung that didnt clean out..
What if manufacturing accidentally contaminated a small batch of jugs?
There numerous contamination opportunities
Priming a filter from any unfiltered source is not best practice.
All kinds of things occur in manufacturing and distribution.
Oil from a drum may contain a partial thread from the bung that didnt clean out..
What if manufacturing accidentally contaminated a small batch of jugs?
There numerous contamination opportunities
