Here's a Baldwin B2 I ran a full OCI with MoS2 on my Jeep quite a while back. Thought I'd share as I appreciate looking at other's filters.
Not any surprises here. The Baldwin B2 is a stout filter, quality and design reminds me somewhat of a Puro Classic, but the Baldwin has a stouter feeling can, with a thread end bypass and coil spring.
The can felt thick and the spring seemed very strong. I didn't count the pleats but there were a lot of them. The ADBV was very soft and pliable and felt thicker to me than the orange can I last dissected.
This filter was run a full 3k OCI in my grimy Jeep engine with PYB and an entire can of MoS2. The filter was left standing on end for several months and the oil ran down and pooled, which makes the bottom of the media look like it's holding crud, but it's not.
Here's a shot of the base plate and gasket. It looks like the gasket didn't entirely contact the engine, I had no problems but it makes me wonder if my threads off the engine are a little off center. I look into it further I've not noticed this on any of my other filters.
Here's the media. Despite the full can of MoS2 and a dirty engine and PYB, there is nothing but a few flakes of carbon visible in the media. A little bit of a disappointment as I've been working hard to clean this engine up, but it puts to rest the notion that MoS2 gets caught by or clogs up your filter. You wouldn't have known I used MoS2 without me telling you. I have other filters that are the same way that I've not posted. Here again you can see where the oil has run down and pooled, but it's only oil, no crud in there.
I was very high on these Baldwins for a while and had absolutely no complaints, but my cheap source for them dried up so I'm back to Motorcrafts or whatever else is in my stash to use up.
Not any surprises here. The Baldwin B2 is a stout filter, quality and design reminds me somewhat of a Puro Classic, but the Baldwin has a stouter feeling can, with a thread end bypass and coil spring.
The can felt thick and the spring seemed very strong. I didn't count the pleats but there were a lot of them. The ADBV was very soft and pliable and felt thicker to me than the orange can I last dissected.
This filter was run a full 3k OCI in my grimy Jeep engine with PYB and an entire can of MoS2. The filter was left standing on end for several months and the oil ran down and pooled, which makes the bottom of the media look like it's holding crud, but it's not.
Here's a shot of the base plate and gasket. It looks like the gasket didn't entirely contact the engine, I had no problems but it makes me wonder if my threads off the engine are a little off center. I look into it further I've not noticed this on any of my other filters.
Here's the media. Despite the full can of MoS2 and a dirty engine and PYB, there is nothing but a few flakes of carbon visible in the media. A little bit of a disappointment as I've been working hard to clean this engine up, but it puts to rest the notion that MoS2 gets caught by or clogs up your filter. You wouldn't have known I used MoS2 without me telling you. I have other filters that are the same way that I've not posted. Here again you can see where the oil has run down and pooled, but it's only oil, no crud in there.
I was very high on these Baldwins for a while and had absolutely no complaints, but my cheap source for them dried up so I'm back to Motorcrafts or whatever else is in my stash to use up.
