Don't. Just don't do it.
I know someone reading this will have the compulsion, the irresistible urge to ask "Why?"
Please don't ask, because I can't tell you. So let's not even go there.
Now that the ground rules are in place, let's suppose.
Let's suppose that a fellow, "a quick fellow" removes a fuel filter from his automobile thinking that this fuel filter might be causing him some motoring problems. What he discovers is that the fuel filter isn't the problem. Matter o' fact, the problem is located elsewhere in the motor and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the fuel filter.
Now a new filter is in place where the old one used to live and it might as well live there doing it's filtering thing until it has filtered fuel and can filter no more.
But this fellow, this "quick fellow" has an almost new, perfectly good filter in hand now that apparently still has some filtering left to do. He doesn't want to throw it away, but a future filter change is far in the future. So now he is curious, can he keep said filter and use it at a future date? If he were to take said filter and store it away securely in say, a zip-lock baggie and put it in safe place, maybe inside a coffee can with a tight lid, just how long can said used filter sit before it goes back where it belongs?
Yes, I know they're not that expensive. I know they're easy to find and easy to use. I know it's just another thing in my junk box, . . . I mean, this fellow's junk box. He's just curious how long it can stay there before it does indeed become junk.
And he doesn't want to explain why he wants to do this.
I know someone reading this will have the compulsion, the irresistible urge to ask "Why?"
Please don't ask, because I can't tell you. So let's not even go there.
Now that the ground rules are in place, let's suppose.
Let's suppose that a fellow, "a quick fellow" removes a fuel filter from his automobile thinking that this fuel filter might be causing him some motoring problems. What he discovers is that the fuel filter isn't the problem. Matter o' fact, the problem is located elsewhere in the motor and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the fuel filter.
Now a new filter is in place where the old one used to live and it might as well live there doing it's filtering thing until it has filtered fuel and can filter no more.
But this fellow, this "quick fellow" has an almost new, perfectly good filter in hand now that apparently still has some filtering left to do. He doesn't want to throw it away, but a future filter change is far in the future. So now he is curious, can he keep said filter and use it at a future date? If he were to take said filter and store it away securely in say, a zip-lock baggie and put it in safe place, maybe inside a coffee can with a tight lid, just how long can said used filter sit before it goes back where it belongs?
Yes, I know they're not that expensive. I know they're easy to find and easy to use. I know it's just another thing in my junk box, . . . I mean, this fellow's junk box. He's just curious how long it can stay there before it does indeed become junk.
And he doesn't want to explain why he wants to do this.
