Ih8mud saved my landcruiser.... (1 Viewer)

[Seth_O]

I've always been grateful for 'mud and the incredible support and knowledge here, but tonight it saved my truck.

I drove to work with no problems, and when I left the office it fired up immediately and drove great. Partway home (a total drive of 12 miles) I noticed I had virtually no oil pressure. Since it drove fine and this was a new issue while sitting parked at the office I assumed it was a sender/gauge problem and finished the drive home.

I had a nagging feeling though, so while parked in my driveway I turned to 'mud. A search immediately turned up multiple posts of folks having the exact same problem while running a WIX oil filter. In fact, the same filter I had on my truck.

I was only ~500 miles short of my next oil change, so I borrowed the wife's DD and went to a box store and got stuff for an oil change.

20 minutes and 6qts of oil + 2qts of Lucas later I had a fresh oil change and rock solid pressure on the gauge again.

Thanks to 'mud, the LC lives another day.

 

[DirtScaresMe]

Damn, those wix filters are nightmares.

 

[baldilocks]

I think your cruiser required more like 8 quarts. Maybe 6 was a typo.

 

[Dave 2000]

Looks like every bloody manufacturer is cutting costs.......at our expense! I recently found a Bosch filter with a failed anti drain valve on my own vehicle!

Back to OEM IMO, it is not cost for me, it's access to a Toyota dealer, bloody miles away!

Regards

Dave

 

[Seth_O]

I think your cruiser required more like 8 quarts. Maybe 6 was a typo.

6qts of oil + Lucas oil stabilizer . Edited the original post for clarity, tks!

 

[ppc]

When did you purchase the WIX filter, recently or something you had on the shelf for some time?

 

[gummycarbs]

Crazy. Wix was always considered a good manufacturer according to everything I'd read. What are we up to now, three in the last year?

 

[wrmathis]

Looks like every bloody manufacturer is cutting costs.......at our expense! I recently found a Bosch filter with a failed anti drain valve on my own vehicle!

Back to OEM IMO, it is not cost for me, it's access to a Toyota dealer, bloody miles away!

Regards

Dave

find a box of 10 or whatever online and have them sent to your place. cheaper and you dont have to go out.

 

[wrmathis]

stupid double post

 

[Seth_O]

When did you purchase the WIX filter, recently or something you had on the shelf for some time?

According to my maintenance log the last oil change was in November, so 4 mos ago. I bought it off the shelf and immediately installed it.

What I thought was weird was that It worked just fine for ~6000 miles, then went bad.

 

[flintknapper]

Motorcraft FL1A Good filter, available just about everywhere, not expensive. Nary a problem running them on my Cruiser for the last 15 yrs. or so.

 

[ewillis]

Glad I stocked up on these...

 

[BILT4ME]

I've always been grateful for 'mud and the incredible support and knowledge here, but tonight it saved my truck.

I drove to work with no problems, and when I left the office it fired up immediately and drove great. Partway home (a total drive of 12 miles) I noticed I had virtually no oil pressure. Since it drove fine and this was a new issue while sitting parked at the office I assumed it was a sender/gauge problem and finished the drive home.

I had a nagging feeling though, so while parked in my driveway I turned to 'mud. A search immediately turned up multiple posts of folks having the exact same problem while running a WIX oil filter. In fact, the same filter I had on my truck.

I was only ~500 miles short of my next oil change, so I borrowed the wife's DD and went to a box store and got stuff for an oil change.

20 minutes and 6qts later I had a fresh oil change and rock solid pressure on the gauge again.

Thanks to 'mud, the LC lives another day.

Please take a pic of the S/N manufacturing info on the bottom end of the filter and post it. If we can find this with every one, we MAY see a pattern, which will give us the power with WIX to have them back the cause.

Please cross-post his link into the "WIX oil filter" thread.

Do NOT cut the filter open. DO contact the supplier where you bought the filter and have them bring in the WIX representative. Do NOT let your filter out of your possession until you have contacted an attorney. Make DAMN sure that the WIX rep sign for it and take a picture of him with the filter. Place it in a Ziploc bag to seal the "stuff" in it.

I hope you grabbed an oil sample to send to Blackstone for analysis.

Let them know the issue as posted here on 'Mud.

 

[Seth_O]

Please take a pic of the S/N manufacturing info on the bottom end of the filter and post it. If we can find this with every one, we MAY see a pattern, which will give us the power with WIX to have them back the cause.

Please cross-post his link into the "WIX oil filter" thread.

Do NOT cut the filter open. DO contact the supplier where you bought the filter and have them bring in the WIX representative. Do NOT let your filter out of your possession until you have contacted an attorney. Make DAMN sure that the WIX rep sign for it and take a picture of him with the filter. Place it in a Ziploc bag to seal the "stuff" in it.

I hope you grabbed an oil sample to send to Blackstone for analysis.

Let them know the issue as posted here on 'Mud.

All good thoughts. I did take a sample for Blackstone (went into the mail today,) and kept the filter (and kept it intact.) I didn't think about taking a picture of the SN or identifying info, I will do that and seal it all up in a Ziploc.

I feel fortunate that because others were vocal with what happened with them I was able to recognize the symptoms and act quickly.

 

[malteserunner]

Motorcraft FL1A Good filter, available just about everywhere, not expensive. Nary a problem running them on my Cruiser for the last 15 yrs. or so.

These are made by Purolator. Good filters. Bosch also has one of their filters built by Purolator, to the same spec.

 

[Funner]

Motorcraft FL1A Good filter, available just about everywhere, not expensive. Nary a problem running them on my Cruiser for the last 15 yrs. or so.

I use this filter too, good results. I would use the Toyota yzzd3 if I could get them at Walmart when I was buying my oil.

 

[BILT4ME]

FYI, I can buy the WIX 51515 at O'Reilly with an employee discount to get it to $4.51 each.

I just bought the YZZD3 Toyota filters online (qty 10) for $3.75 each plus freight which comes to $4.76 each total cost plus freight. The YZZD3 are SMALLER than the WIX, but I have had enough on this version of WIX. I am switching to Toyota for my LC. I want it to stay the most reliable vehicle on the planet.

I use WIX on some of my other vehicles and have fortunately never had a problem in 35 years. I am wondering if there is a problem SPECIFICALLY with the 51515 unit, so if we can track lot numbers, we can better build a case.

 

[DirtScaresMe]

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[Dave 2000]

These are made by Purolator. Good filters. Bosch also has one of their filters built by Purolator, to the same spec.

Bosch filters are being made in countries where quality is not in their vocabulary. I've seen Bosch made in Tunisia , Israel , Taiwan ect, interesting I have never seen one from Germany or UK?

Purolator have a good name with me but, until recently so did Bosch.

Regards

Dave

 

[Dave 2000]

find a box of 10 or whatever online and have them sent to your place. cheaper and you dont have to go out.

More chance of burning your arse on a snowball here.

Regards

Dave