Originally Posted by Langanobob
If the Amsoil is working I would stay with it. Not that there might not be other oils that also work well, it just might be an expensive experiment finding out. I second Ducked's earlier suggestion about filtering the clutch contaminated oil. Maybe you could rig up a bench mounted filtration system in your race trailer or shop. You could use a bypass type filter with a low micron rating.
You perhaps don't need a low micron rating for this, and if you use one without any preliminary cleanup it might tend to clog. The origin, and the report of it clogging the oil pickup, suggests theres a lot of debris and its likely to be quite filterable.
I'd think improvised cloth or paper filters (or maybe spinning, though the stuff may be too light) would probably do for preliminary cleanup.
If you want high efficiency bench filtering , since it presumably won't be heated, spun polypropylene water filters (max temp 60 degrees) go low-micron and are very cheap, but there'll be plumbing involved.
A low-effort alternative, after a preliminary clean-up, might be to put the stuff in a (clean, so maybe after a short OCI) car and run it for a bit, then drain it and use it.
Cars mostly have oil filters, probably adequate for this application, built-in.
If the Amsoil is working I would stay with it. Not that there might not be other oils that also work well, it just might be an expensive experiment finding out. I second Ducked's earlier suggestion about filtering the clutch contaminated oil. Maybe you could rig up a bench mounted filtration system in your race trailer or shop. You could use a bypass type filter with a low micron rating.
You perhaps don't need a low micron rating for this, and if you use one without any preliminary cleanup it might tend to clog. The origin, and the report of it clogging the oil pickup, suggests theres a lot of debris and its likely to be quite filterable.
I'd think improvised cloth or paper filters (or maybe spinning, though the stuff may be too light) would probably do for preliminary cleanup.
If you want high efficiency bench filtering , since it presumably won't be heated, spun polypropylene water filters (max temp 60 degrees) go low-micron and are very cheap, but there'll be plumbing involved.
A low-effort alternative, after a preliminary clean-up, might be to put the stuff in a (clean, so maybe after a short OCI) car and run it for a bit, then drain it and use it.
Cars mostly have oil filters, probably adequate for this application, built-in.