Hey Scotty:
I haven't seen you do much about Oil cleaners like the new Oil Refiner https://www.toiletpaperoilfilter.com/thetoiletpaperoilfiltercompany.html I've been running them on all my vehicles for years. It will take my black oil and make it clear. I have 360K mile on our Yukon, 270K on our Mazda 5, 180k on our Ram, 250K on our Kia Sorrento before I gave it away. I got tired of fixing the harmonic balancer bolt issues. an 70k on our Mazda CX5 2019. I have to drill a hole in the dip stick so I can see the oil level. I run Mobile 1 and about every 4k mile I change the toilet paper roll and add a new quart of oil. it filters down to 3-5 microns and the paper will remove water from the oil. There is a company in Australia that basically does the same thing on the industrial level, called Filter Tech https://www.filtertechnology.com.au/applications/ Filter Tech has lots of published stories on their website. Some of the benefits are I rarely change the oil, I can afford to run Mobile 1, I can add chemical additives and they are not dumped out on the next oil change. I can change the "Filter" in church clothes. With the "Global Concern" about the evils of oil (which comes out of the ground right next to fresh water . . .and not Mars) it seems this would be an answer to the "Viably Concerned". I understand the US Navy ships clean their oil instead of changing it every 6k miles. Seems like this would have legs . . . OF course you can still do oil sampling to see if acid levels are unusual and all the other stuff, but wowzer this is amazing stuff!
$300 for a toilet paper oil filter - no sale.
You can buy used for $15-35 on eBay. And at $8 a quart for oil or $100 oil changes it will pay for itself in short order.
Thanks but still - No Sale.
The mileages you are reporting are not particularly remarkable. I've gone 300K-400K miles on several vehicles with conventional oil and filter changes. $8/quart for oil? $100 for an oil change? I don't know where you're shopping but you're getting ripped off. I buy 5 quarts of synthetic oil for about $18 (store brand, 5 quarts Mobil 1 for $27), a filter for about $5.
This was a bad idea in the 1950s and it's a bad idea today. Oil is cheap. Engines are expensive. Sorry, no sale.
I just stuff mine with old underwear and carpet remnants. 😝
I could buy 100 spin on filters for the price of this gizmo. That's about 500,000 miles worth. And my oil won't be full of cellulose fibre.
No thanks.
I remember seeing those things in the Warshawsky and J.C. Whitney catalogs back in the 60 and 70's.
I really miss J.C. Whitney!
