Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) Engine shot at 192000 miles, need air filter suggestions

[LMcCary]

If your machinist can not tell that your head is Sand blasted by extra Dirt flowing into your air induction system, FIND a new machinist. Excess dirt will make the moving parts look like they have been sanded and if the dirt conditions are bad enough the runners will have a sightly sand blasted appearance. How do you think that engine manufactures can tell that your air induction system is not working properly. Use the recommended air filtration or better. In other words, compare the specs, and find out if your new found super dopper filter will protect the engine warranty with a engine replacement.

 

[6naline01]

What is the part # for BHAF @ Cummins? Thanks in advance 6naline01

 

[JCasper]

A K&N at altitude will work very well I agree, no dust to deal with. At ground level though it is a whole different story. I'm not flaming here, but that is just the way it is.



I have friend that runs the Buick GN Turbo cars. He used to run the K&N and it would make/add HP to performance. The one thing that he discovered was that the Mass Air Flow sensor was becoming covered with a layer of very fine dust that destroys the sensors ability to provide good data. AT $400 a pop, it took 2 Mass Air Flow sensor to be ruined before he realized / discovered the source, that being the K&N. This guy is a motor/gear head and knows his stuff,and has been an engineer for over 20 years.



My back ground like yours is Aviation having started in 1974. If your comfortable with the K&N and it works for you, go for it, but application in an aircraft at altitude is completely different than down in the dirt on terra-firma

A friend of mine with a Nissan pickup had to replace a Mass airflow sensor and the mechanic at the dealer ship said the only ones he had replaced was on trucks with a K&N air filter.



I run Fleetgaurd filters on my truck, Oil, Air, Fuel

 

[NoSeeUm]

dont mean to to press the point but a 985 cu. in engine sucks a lot of air in 1600 hours. at 120m. p. h. it puts on a few miles in that time.

Urch... . No Doubt.



Its just my opinion that there is more dirt near the ground where almost all of the hours of a automobile engine makes its living. Typically, the regular maintenance of an aircraft engine is on a higher level and at a greater frequency than an automobile engine.



Jim

 

[jcarey]

The Cummins BHAF would be the Fleetguard AF19037.

 

[Silver Bullet Ram]

Should I be thinking about taking off my AEM cold air intake? It has that cotton gauze spray oil on filter.





Gary

 

[2broke2smoke]

8 grand to rebuild an engine?



what does a reman cost from cummins?

 

[NoSeeUm]

Should I be thinking about taking off my AEM cold air intake? It has that cotton gauze spray oil on filter.





Gary

I am not really up on AEM but it looks like this is new?



AEM Brute Force DryFlow



Jim

 

[Silver Bullet Ram]

Well that is new, mine is still the oiled filter, the kit was given to me.

 

[ProspectorTim]

... I finally broke down and had the engine re-built. Kinda bummed out... only 192,000 miles... .

dont mean to to press the point but a 985 cu. in engine sucks a lot of air in 1600 hours. at 120m. p. h. it puts on a few miles in that time.

I whipped out my handy Winders Calculator and lo-and-behold, 1600 hours at 120 mph = 192,000 miles. What a coincidence!

I put a K&N filter on my truck at 15,000 miles. I'm an Amsoil dealer, but there I was in the part store buying oil (too new to switch to synthetic yet) and I didn't have an Amsoil air filter handy and there was the correct size filter on the shelf in front of me, so I went for it.
At 26,000 miles I installed the Amsoil dual-remote bypass oil filters and switched to Amsoil Series 3000 5w30 Heavy Duty Diesel Synthetic oil - and started doing oil analysis.

Over the next rew filter changes and oil analysis', I noticed that the Silicon number kept going up.
At 57,000 miles, I swapped out the K&N for an Amsoil TS-106 (two stage) air filter, and in subseqent oil analysis' the Silicon went back down and continued a downward trend. K&N is for sale.

Around 100,000 miles, I was moving from Colorado to Tennessee, and made about a dozen trips hauling heavy loads at highway speeds - and kept triggering the filterminder; even after cleaning & *lightly* oiling the air filter.
In Colorado, we lived on a dirt road, and I spent a lot of time hauling the camper & atv's down dirt roads. Moving to Memphis, all I do is paved roads, so I decided to try the BHAF at 122,000 miles.

I can't say what the BHAF did for me, since the installation did not include the stock filter box and filter-minder, and I've done a couple of OIL & Filter changes instead of filter-only and analysis. But others have been happy with it.

I've got 145,000 on the truck now, and I'm about to change air filters again.
I found this excellent air filter discussion on Building a better BHAF that evolved to the discovery that Amsoil is now selling a Donaldson air filter that folks like BETTER. My new air filter will be the Amsoil EaAu4090 - and I need to get back to doing oil analysis with the next filter change!

Oh yeah, I'm going to install a filter minder, somehow, somewhere ...