The Best Oil Filter - Testing Paper vs Fibreglass vs Steel

Hello, what type of oil

filter

are you using? A black one, it's the type that fits my bike. I honestly don't know what's there. It turns out there are three options:

paper

,

steel

or fiberglass and the manufacturers like their black boxes and they like us to believe blindly. In the performance we pay for instead of saying build a hydraulic test bench to call the end, only one of these

filter

s is prudent, which witnesses the dialysis of the oil under constant hydraulic stress. Our first test is the power of the 65 drag pump, clean oil, clean filters for the same make and model, how much resistance does each type of

paper

have?

I was pushing back at 24 psi. He could also be using molasses as a lubricant and that noticeably delays his good time. Who would deign to waste energy like that? Cheap bastard paper filters are just leftover cellulose. cotton wood fiber glued together, all of that is conveniently absorbent, so cellulose filters can extract water from oil to prevent oxidation - not bad for something as cheap as paper. The downside is that 24 psi oil does not flow easily through the cardboard. The

steel

filter has the same oil, the same pump power, but only 22 pounds per square inch of resistance, which means marginally more foot-pounds to the ground.

The reason there is less resistance in your motor is because the liquid flows fast over smooth steel wires and that steel is incredibly strong. actually clean a metal filter and reuse it like a condom finally fiberglass cost twice as much same power same oil 25 psi worse than paper well beat my ass and call me a scapegoat and the argument is that paper is a mess of fibers, so it traps. Everything, including the steel for the oil flow, is a precise 30 micron mesh, usually, so it doesn't catch anything smaller, but at least the oil flows easily. Fiberglass is supposed to be the

best

of both particle traps of all sizes because it is pubic, but more properly tubular, these are glass tubes. so they're slippery like steel and the oil has to flow fast that's proposition 20 anyway so far fiberglass hasn't proven to be any better than ten dollar paper our second test is capacity let's say your engine is circulating clean oil at five liters per minute, but it's an aprilia so there is also a constant flow of metal shavings, how much can each filter consume before it clogs?

Because when this output flow drops below two liters per minute, your oil-free engine could stop working. Steel fails first after only nine teaspoons of particles are not surprising. The steel filters are replaceable, so they must be attached to a robust permanent housing and that costs volume, so the final filtration surface area is smaller. Fiberglass clogs at 14 tsp and paper stays above 2 liters per minute through 32 tsp. That's as much as 15, 25 and 35 microns of aluminum. I guess all these folds allow the paper. to comfortably grab a handful I will officially change the name to chris rock fiberglass beats no one over steel it has high power flow but thimble like capacity while chris rock is the top choice so far moment, obviously we didn't choose filters with float release valves for this test, but they should look identical, but they open when filled to capacity, this way a clogged filter can still let unfiltered oil through, no It is ideal since that oil is contaminated with steel shavings, clutch core gasket, war crimes, but as in Germany, motorcycles prefer to get dirty oil so no oil our final test is effectiveness we have identical samples of engine oil used running at 30 psi for 6 hours is a highway room with a new filter the oil will be cleaner after but how clean do we take a sample after each The contestant has had his 6 hours of lube like a heavy duty sperm bank .

These fly to the lab in Edmonton and our spectral analysis returns. The crude oil had a ferrous metal index of 21 and 20 parts per million contaminants. Our steel filter had ferrous metals in it. up to 19, but let's leave aside that 20 pps fiberglass only fell to 20 in the pq index but to 18 in parts per million of contaminants, while paper was again the winner, filtering our most noble metals to 16 and contaminants too at 16. This is one of those happy results that vindicates the cheap bastard paper filters are the

best

: steel had higher flow but terrible capacity and poor filtration, while fiberglass It didn't shine anywhere, which is unacceptable for a supposed performance improvement.

The only reason I would buy steel is if I was on the street. Racing in the Galapagos, where high flow power is crucial, reuse is necessary in the middle of the ocean and with oil changes after each race, contaminants come out with the wash, but aside from the Galapagina Grand Prix, the appeal of the Steel just isn't real fiberglass. It is only useful if you intend to abuse your machine. Glass doesn't degrade like paper, so if you want to use the same filter for 10 years that's fine, but if you stick to the maintenance intervals as you should, there's nothing wrong with the cheaper option. in our exam is the best for you