Safely Extend and/or Eliminate “Routine” Oil Drain Intervals

When you purchase your equipment the parts are new and running on a new film of oil. What wears your engine out? (Contamination) If you can run your engine on clean oil 100% of the time and cut your wear rates in half, how much longer will the engine last? The following information will help you understand what Filtakleen Filters can do to help you get the maximum possible life out of your equipment and eliminate costly oil changes.

The following is an outline of the steps that Filtakleen Mfg. Inc. would recommend in order to SAFELY Extend and/or Eliminate routine oil drain intervals on your engines.  Within the following information I will cover what we have established (over a period of years starting in 1979) as obtainable goals in accomplishing this task.

Let us start by understanding the current situation that you are operating under.  Your engines are presently equipped (with few exceptions) with only full-flow oil filters and you are following a routine oil drain interval.  The factory full-flow filters on your engines are performing a protecting job, in that they are designed to remove the larger particles that would damage vital parts.

The additive package of the oil is then utilized to hold the smaller microscopic contaminants; the full-flow has missed, in suspension, and to combat other problems such as acid formation, oxidation, nitration, moisture intrusion, and etc.  The oil is allowed to remain in the engine until it becomes contaminated to the point that it is no longer suitable for use within the engine.  When Is This Point Reached?  According to American Petroleum Institute (API) Publication #1507, page 13, engine oil should be changed before additive depletion and oil contaminants can begin to affect engine performance and life.  Filtakleen Mfg. Inc. fully endorses this recommendation!

            In order to eliminate the process of routine oil drains, thereby drastically reducing the amount of waste oil being generated, we must install additional filtration and establish the proper service intervals for these filters to deal with contamination missed by the full-flow filters and other types of contamination.  

            There are three basic types of contamination that must be dealt with:  “Solid”, “Moisture” and “Condition Caused” Contamination.  The following pages will fully explain these types of contamination and how adding additional By-Pass filtration will effectively control these areas.