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Baxter Performance spin on filter adapter
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Sorry for the delay.
I don’t like clumsy designs that overcomplicate something that can, and should, be extremely simple. Extra tools (on some makes and models, the tools for the cartridge filters are specific to that design), time spent fiddling with o-rings (I have hands like christmas hams) etc, to my mind is an overcomplication of something that was simple, contained all in one unit, and that didn’t need its design changed - the basic spin-on oil filter.
I’ll admit spin-ons can be messy, sometimes awkwardly positioned (so can cartridges, not unlike these being underneath the strut brace) but the bulk of them can be taken on and off by hand, and good technique can largely overcome the mess that they make (spoken from the fact that I did 7 years as an oil change guy as my first job and undoubtedly changed multiple thousand vehicles worth of oil filters, so I had time to perfect the technique - it’s all in the wrist). No fiddling involved.
A three-second blast of compressed air to a schrader valve (as with this Baxter product) followed by a quick spin off, a kiss of oil on the gasket, and and quick spin on is, to me, far more elegant a design than breaking out sockets and ratchets, removing the cartridge, removing the filter media, removing two or three o rings, re-installing two or three o-rings, reinstalling the new filter media, reinstalling the housing, and then tools to tighten it again.
My preference of course. Others’ mileage may vary!
I don’t like clumsy designs that overcomplicate something that can, and should, be extremely simple. Extra tools (on some makes and models, the tools for the cartridge filters are specific to that design), time spent fiddling with o-rings (I have hands like christmas hams) etc, to my mind is an overcomplication of something that was simple, contained all in one unit, and that didn’t need its design changed - the basic spin-on oil filter.
I’ll admit spin-ons can be messy, sometimes awkwardly positioned (so can cartridges, not unlike these being underneath the strut brace) but the bulk of them can be taken on and off by hand, and good technique can largely overcome the mess that they make (spoken from the fact that I did 7 years as an oil change guy as my first job and undoubtedly changed multiple thousand vehicles worth of oil filters, so I had time to perfect the technique - it’s all in the wrist). No fiddling involved.
A three-second blast of compressed air to a schrader valve (as with this Baxter product) followed by a quick spin off, a kiss of oil on the gasket, and and quick spin on is, to me, far more elegant a design than breaking out sockets and ratchets, removing the cartridge, removing the filter media, removing two or three o rings, re-installing two or three o-rings, reinstalling the new filter media, reinstalling the housing, and then tools to tighten it again.
My preference of course. Others’ mileage may vary!
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How could you possibly assign causality to one thing, like the cartridge filter, on something that will very slowly cause additional wear? It's a pretty ridiculous ask.
Just listen to your engine when it starts up. I hear excess clatter, that quiets after maybe 3 seconds. That is additional wear on the engine internals. An oil filter with a functional check valve will improve that significantly.
I'm also in the camp of the price being too much to justify though. If it was $200, I'd just buy the damn thing.
Mine is a bit on the other end of the spectrum mileage wise and I wouldn't expect it to be noisy, but it has no rattle whatsoever. I start my vehicles in the garage with the door open. It's kind of a resonance chamber that lets me hear things. I've done this with all of my Ecoboost vehicles to listen to the engine for that very reason. I hear it every time it fires up.
