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Oil Filter Change: Every oil change or every other?
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Post: #21
RE: Oil Filter Change: Every oil change or every other?
An Engineer friend of mine did some research on oil filters for commercial diesel engines used on machinery. He found that these filters actually worked better after they were used for a while. It seems the larger filtered particles blocked some of the other larger particles from passing through the filter. I know this seems counter-intuitive but that is what he found. Of course you can't allow it to have so much entrapped dirt that the filter clogs. They usually monitor the oil filters with their own pressure gauge on machines to make sure they don't get so clogged that the bypass valve opens.

Maybe the Honda engineers found that the oil filters actually work better after the first oil change. Or maybe they are just designing for pre-planned obsolescence (bike wearing out).
04-07-2018 01:18 AM
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RE: Oil Filter Change: Every oil change or every other?
Interesting and make sense.

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04-07-2018 04:31 AM
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Knave Offline
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RE: Oil Filter Change: Every oil change or every other?
I always change the filter when changing oil, it may not be necessary but it just "feels better".
04-17-2018 07:46 AM
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