What I found

[donnier]

Found this while doing maintenance.

This was a Airraid dropin filter with about 10K miles on it.

https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=62975&stc=1&d=1174226573

I pulled it for inspection and found this junk on the bottom of the filter.

Nothing made it past the filter.

 

[AMassaro]

Did you drive thru a cotton field?? :-laf

 

[donnier]

Not that I remember.

What I think is jammed in there is the felt that was on the bottom of the filter similar to what the stock filter has.

As I was looking at this mess, UPS showed up with a AMSOIL filter so I changed it out.

 

[BEvens]

Are you sure you don't have a mouse issue?

 

[rwitt]

I had something very similar, ended up being the firewall insulation from my truck. A rat was the culprit.

Rich