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Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Purolator.

Looks good.
+1
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Thanks for posting Robl
 
I was guessing more a champion too. The last one I saw had a string around the media, like purolator does. This one did not. Also, this one is a dealer filter, not one from Walmart for example, not sure if there is a diff.
 
Originally Posted By: labman
Why does Purolator get a pass on the distorted media?


I wouldn't really call this "distorted media". I think all filters will show some a few areas of "pleat squirm" to some degree with use. Some are definitely worse than others from the photos seen here and filters I've cut open.

OP didn't give any info on how many miles were on this filter.

IMG_8525.jpg
 
robl, I don't know how to post pictures directly from your camera. Mori taught me how to post net pictures as follows:

1. Right click on your net picture and choose/left click on "copy image location".

2. In your BITOG post, type [image]paste your "copy image location" here[/image]

IMG_8525.jpg


again, it's your "copy image location" bracketed by
[image] [/image]
 
Originally Posted By: SuperBusa
Originally Posted By: labman
Why does Purolator get a pass on the distorted media?


I wouldn't really call this "distorted media". I think all filters will show some a few areas of "pleat squirm" to some degree with use. Some are definitely worse than others from the photos seen here and filters I've cut open.

OP didn't give any info on how many miles were on this filter.

IMG_8525.jpg



Definitely a Purolator, here's an FL-820S for comparison:

motorcraft02.jpg
 
Originally Posted By: labman
Why does Purolator get a pass on the distorted media?


1. Any media that isn't glass is going to distort a little when saturated, since it expands.

2. The media is not part of the structure of the filter, since the end-caps are affixed to the centre tube and the media is affixed to them. So, even when the media does distort, it does not affect the integrity of the "filtering insert" we find inside the canister.
 
Originally Posted By: SuperBusa

I wouldn't really call this "distorted media". I think all filters will show some a few areas of "pleat squirm" to some degree with use. Some are definitely worse than others from the photos seen here and filters I've cut open.
+1 IMO that filter looks good. It does look very much like a Purolator/Motorcraft (as OVERK1ll posted). It appears to have a base loaded bypass like the Motorcraft, without seeing the other end I can't tell for sure.

I just finished cutting open a 5k OCI L14610 Puro Prem Plus. It looked good, pleats still lined up.

To the OP thanks for posting the pics.
 
Filters with longer length pleats will definitely show a little more "squirm" than a filter with a really short filter element ... even if the same brand.
 
Glass media filters (like the AMSOIL posted above) do not "saturate and expand" like a traditional filter.

Fleetguard:

stratapore06.jpg


So it is not really fair to compare the used pleat spacing and "shift" of a glass-based filter to a conventional one.
 
OVERK1LL I wasn't comparing the two I was just posting them for comparison against the OP's filter picture.

I use glass media filters for the reasons you described. I put the Fram up because it was the closest thing I had pictures of that had traditional media.

The Amsoil filter pic was more for, how straight it should look if possible.
 
Originally Posted By: StevieC
OVERK1LL I wasn't comparing the two I was just posting them for comparison against the OP's filter picture.

I use glass media filters for the reasons you described. I put the Fram up because it was the closest thing I had pictures of that had traditional media.

The Amsoil filter pic was more for, how straight it should look if possible.



Understood. I was just clarifying the point I had made earlier about the differences in the media.

Here's a K&N (same application as the Fleetguard):

filter09.jpg
 
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