Thanks. The lighting is really crappy in the pic.
Personally, I have never had one do that, at least not that I've seen. I heard of that happening, but I usually run shorter intervals of 4k or less usually, so I'm sure that helps.
You know, the crazy thing is, I have a whole 12 pack that I bought unopened, and about 3 or 4 of them have this same stuff in them after looking just now, and it’s kind of elusive where you have to shine a flashlight down into them and look around carefully to find it. I think I may have to stop buying these once and for all. No telling how many of these I have already ran, but missed it like I did on this one. That’s sloppy, in my opinion.
Problem is it's already installed on the car by the time I noticed the picture. I guess I'll have to replace this one with a clean one. I just hope I haven't damaged anything.
Understood & at least you're on top of it now. Just think about how many filters a car sees with this kind of debris stuck on the filters & they still motor on down the highway for a time. See if you can get a clean one ready for your next install if you can.
Will do. And yeah, I'm sure I've already ran them like this before. I'm amazed how many of these filters I have found that are contaminated with this black adhesive. I don't remember ever seeing anything like this in other brand oil filters.
Excess glue seems common-but on the outside of the media where the filter should catch it. Inside the media is no bueno...
I stopped buying Motorcraft after seeing some cut-open posts and some YT videos showing all the sloppy glue jobs, and that the glue they use can come off.
Still a remove possibility of detached glue going through the bypass valve. Ideally, there shouldn't be anything coming loose inside the filter, regardless if it's on the clean side or dirty side of the media.
It does seem that Mann has a glue problem (although there's been a few Frams too)-these MCs are violating the oil filter "Hippocratic Oath"-first do NO HARM!!
I think I would contact Motorcraft or Mann-I don't know if they would care, but it's still a good idea to let them know if there's an issue. I have a couple FL820S filters left for my MGM 4.6, I'll be going over them with a fine-tooth comb before I use them.
