Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) Pure Power reusable oil filters? Anyone?

[Nickaru]

A friend of mine went to an auto show and a company called Pure Power www.gopurepower.com sells a reusable oil filter. The cost is about $200 and has stainless steel screens that are cleanable. It suppose to be better filtering than conventional paper filters and several of their customers are large fleet owners such as the U. S. Postal Service. It's suppose to be the last oil filter your vehicle needs. Anyone try or hear about these? I did a search here and didn't find anything about it. Just curious.

 

[keimmmo]

A good general rule is that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I haven't heard anything about them, but it sounds like "snake oil" to me.



I'm SURE they are not on the approved list of filters to maintain your warranty!!!



Steve

 

[JimBob24]

Seems like it would be a lot of trouble to have to clean a dirty oil filter at each oil change, and for $200 you can buy at least 30 good oil filters which would be good for a minimum of 110K miles. Sure is easy to just chunk the old one and put in a new one. IMHO.



Jim

 

[RustyJC]

Why would I want to risk a $14,000 engine on a $200 oil filter that's much more work to maintain than the disposable Fleetguard Stratapore that's a known quantity when the $200 oil filter offers no clear performance advantage? Sorry, but the logic doesn't work for me.



Rusty

 

[keimmmo]

Not exactly apples to apples, but have you ever dealt with the old VW pancake filter screen? The metal in the screen would get to moving around after a few washings leaving some pretty good size holes in places. If that were to happen on the Cummins, it could at least wear on the crank and bearings. Then, if in washing it, you leave a chunk that would happen to get stuck in one of the oil nozzles under a piston... goodby motor.



I would guess that you would need to use a gallon of cleaner to properly clean the filter. With fuel prices around $2. 00 per gallon, it might cost more to wash the reusable than to buy a spin-on!



Steve

 

[mhenon]

Well, if you click on the link and check out the web-site... it looks like a well built filter. Having said that. . I think i would go with a by-pass filter instead.

 

[Nickaru]

I know what you mean about a screen as a filter. I was picturing the VW screen myself. They say on the web site that it filters down below 10 microns. I don't know what a Fleetguard does and I'm not saying anything bad about the Fleetguards, I use them myself, great filter. I just thought the techies here on the board might want to know about this.

 

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oil filters

For what I know of oil filters. One needs to remove 90% of the 8 to 10 micron particles for they are the hardest on the engine.