Car owners often get conflicting advice about oil filters. Vehicle owner's manuals, installers, quick-lube operators, mechanics and retail clerks all have different opinions. The reality is that...
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According to ACdelco going from a 40mu to a 30mu filter cut wear in half and going to a 15mu reduced wear 70%.
Going from a 25mu@96% 45mu absolute to an 8mu@99% 27mu absolute will significantly increase the life of the hydraulics, normal seal wear or corrosion will take it out.
Upgrade to the upgrade. I found a big ole filter head being tossed at work.
I identified it as having a 1.5 inch 16tpi threaded head nipple and taking a 5 inch wide filter. Yeah there's lots of those filters.
Wix lists 120+ of those 1.5-16tpi and most of them have a 5 inch gasket.
So I found a wix 51859. 28gpm 5 micron rating, 18 to 22psid bypass.