What have you done to your 100 Series this week? (30 Viewers)

[LJE]

First I gave my LX a Wedgie:

Then I figured out that my delicate engineer hands don't love opening the RAM mount arms when there's a phone in place - so I fixed that with some finger-loops:

Both available on The Artisan Garage now!

 

[denbeigh]

I put this kit on all of our vehicles. It has saved us many thousands. On out diesels it’s been especially useful. We do oil analysis every 3,000 miles and change the full flow filter adding some make up oil. We don’t change oil until the analysis indicates. It’s usually fuel dilution that forces the change. We’ve torn down engines with 275,000 miles on them with only 3 or 4 oil changes and the bearings were fine. Oil doesn’t wear out, it just becomes contaminated. These filters are 99% efficient at 20 microns. Typical rod/main tolerance is about 60 microns.

so basically you just change the filter and keep running the same oil? what are your intervals for oil and filter typically?

 

[Nardulli]

so basically you just change the filter and keep running the same oil? what are your intervals for oil and filter typically?

We oil sample @ 3,000 miles and change the small filter (which is a full flow like an OE filter, in that it incorporates a check valve that allows oil to flow without being filtered if the engine is calling for max oil flow). We add some make up oil a that time which replenishes the additive package. The larger, by-pass filter we change at 30,000 miles. On the diesels we follow the same schedule except we change out the by-pass filter at 15,000 due to soot. As I mentioned, it is typically fuel dilution that forces an oil change. That’s a good indication that we need to pull injectors and test them. Sometimes a coupe of doses of SeaFoam will clean them up. Direct injected engines are notorious for carbon buildup on the valves and sea foam helps there too.