What type of oil with your bypass system

[Nebraskan]

I think blue shop towels would work fine, but you'd have to trim them a bit for length. Now, if you could find a canister to hold them.

Think of the filter media you'd have??

 

[acewiza]

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Originally posted by DracoFelis:
IMHO that's probably the main advantage of an "Oil Guard" bypass, over a TP bypass. While a TP system has "cheap" filters, it ends up costing you in "make up oil", due to the frequent filter changes that TP systems require. Of course, if you want extra long OCI's, you want to lose some oil so that you can "refresh" the oil with new oil. But you probably don't need to "refresh" the oil as often as the TP filters make you do it.

OTOH the OG filters are way over price IMHO (yes, I have the OG system on my cars), but those filters last a lot longer (even the smallest OG size, which is the type on my cars, seems to be good for 10k-15k on a single filter). As a result, the OG bypass may actually be cheaper to use then a TP filter (even with the high OG filter cost), if/when you factor in the cost of the (synthetic) oil that TP systems "waste" by frequent filter changes.

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To address Draco's assertions highlighted in bold above, I offer the following comments:

I decline to speculate on the probablility of filtration, rather observe empirical results.

The frequency of my current TP intervals is 5k miles - less than alot of OCIs I hear bantied about around here. YMMV.

Our oil gets refreshed as required, in all probability realtively often, but not excessively, in my judgement. YMMV.

Our cost for two TP changes represents approximately one percent of the cost of the OG filter, makeup oil inc., over the same interval. You may actually do the math. Or not.

I prefer to waste nothing wherever possible, including my time pontificating and speculating about why a particular system I have invested in needs justification, as I am actually secretly beginning to doubt it myself.

 

[rmattingley]

What about moly, will the tp take it out??

 

[handyman]

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