@oil pan 4 I am intrigued, where/how did you source the oil filter housing?
I bought a remote filter kit years ago and never used it.@oil pan 4 I am intrigued, where/how did you source the oil filter housing?
Just adding an oil filter to an engine that didn't have any filter, but does have a forced oiling system.You are a filtering machine @oil pan 4
The stump grinder had about 10 hours on it of stock configuration run time on it when I pulled the sample (no oil filter).I was wrong that 459cc engine is only a little over a year old. It definitely has more hours on it than the wood chipper.
The oil looks more metally too.
I described the wood chipper oil as dozens if not hundreds of metal flakes visible at any given moment and it only had about 3 hours on it.
The WOOD CHIPPER has more like 10hrs on it and the oil has hundreds to thousands of metal powder bits in it visible at any given moment, it's definitely worse.
How about improving the air filter system to eliminate the dust from getting into the engine in the first place. Donaldson makes a ton of them.
Found an upgrade filter. A Honda air filter for an old cyclone air cleaner will fit. The Honda filter is bigger overall, the paper used is thicker, the plete folds are deeper, they're tighter packed and the foam pre-filter is much densier. Then I topped it off with an additional pre filter made from an old sock, that covers the air filter, then sprayed the old sock down with k&n air filter oil.I would probably just make some sort of air filter pre filter.
If I was worried about junk in the oil, I'd change the oil more often... maybe once a year instead of every 3 years.
adding complexity adds failure points.. also have to have the right size orifice to not reduce the oil flow the the engine significantly.. which might be different than expected if your oil is 280F on a summer day.