I changed the oil on the GP last week while the OLM was still at about 37% oil life remaining because of my doubts about the quality of this made in China shop filter that I could not find any info on online. In fact, if you do a Google search of PLG3387A, the first few results are Amazon listings and then a slew of results from here at BITOG due to my listing it in my former sig. I decided to do an autopsy to see if my fears were founded and finally got some alone time tonight to break out the hobby hacksaw and go at it. There are about 6,000 miles on the filter.
Here is the filter in its fully intact glory...for the last time. The can is very solid and I could not dent it with my bare hands.
Cut open and disassembled.
The ADBV was a bit stiff and had this wrinkle, which allowed all of the oil to drain out when placed base-side down, which made for a cleaner dissection and is not a problem in my application as it sits vertically, base-side up.
Tight (but not too tight) and evenly spaced filter media pleats, well glued to the metal end caps. No tears or waves.
The media did not come off easily and measured at about 110 square inches.
Solid center tube.
Solid pressure relief coil spring.
And they conveniently put the filter cross-references right on the side of the can!
After seeing the equivalent and even supposedly superior Frams cut open (http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2169966 and http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2785903), I think I would rather run this Pentius. I am guessing this is a slightly better filter than the Pentius PLB3387A that can be had on Rockauto for $1.64, but maybe not good enough to warrant the $6.33 Amazon price. I have a Bosch Premium ($6.99 at AZ and on Amazon; synthetic blend media and silicon ADBV) on the GP now and will cut it open when I run the OLM down to 0% remaining this time, so probably not for another 6-8 months.
Here is the filter in its fully intact glory...for the last time. The can is very solid and I could not dent it with my bare hands.
Cut open and disassembled.
The ADBV was a bit stiff and had this wrinkle, which allowed all of the oil to drain out when placed base-side down, which made for a cleaner dissection and is not a problem in my application as it sits vertically, base-side up.
Tight (but not too tight) and evenly spaced filter media pleats, well glued to the metal end caps. No tears or waves.
The media did not come off easily and measured at about 110 square inches.
Solid center tube.
Solid pressure relief coil spring.
And they conveniently put the filter cross-references right on the side of the can!
After seeing the equivalent and even supposedly superior Frams cut open (http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2169966 and http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2785903), I think I would rather run this Pentius. I am guessing this is a slightly better filter than the Pentius PLB3387A that can be had on Rockauto for $1.64, but maybe not good enough to warrant the $6.33 Amazon price. I have a Bosch Premium ($6.99 at AZ and on Amazon; synthetic blend media and silicon ADBV) on the GP now and will cut it open when I run the OLM down to 0% remaining this time, so probably not for another 6-8 months.
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