From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 10:09:32 PST
Guys, I think your right on not using the oil in the engine after
filtering with the toilet paper filtration system. Wouldn't there be
chemicals leaching out of the paper too? Fred Martin
Ryan M Gill wrote:
> At 10:06 AM -0600 3/18/03, Mel Miller wrote:
>
>> Howdy Fred,
>>
>> For over at least forty years there have been bypass filters using
>> rolls of
>> toilet paper or paper towels to filter crankcase oil. If they are
>> correctly
>> engineered they work very well.
>
>
> One of the Chaps in the GAMVPA (really a Jeep club but what the hey)
> brought in the (certainly carcinogenic) remains of a WWII era Jeep's oil
> filter. It was rusted through, but had what appeared to be string and
> rags that had been packed into the casing.
>
>> I would not consider putting such oil back into an engine unless your
>> engine
>> uses a lot of oil and you have to constantly replenish. The trace
>> elements
>> of oil additives in the petroleum companies 'formula' for that oil may
>> have
>> been consumed. One way of determining whether or not you should reuse the
>> oil for its intended purpose would be to send a used and new sample of
>> the
>> oil to an analysis company and ask them to see if the 'additive
>> package' is
>> still intact in the used sample.
>
>
> Plus the lubricating polymer chains are most certainly sheared to
> shorter and less lubricating lengths.
>
> Burning the filtered oil is probably not a bad way to get rid of it (it
> could have pollutants in it?) however, filtering it and putting it back
> into your engine isn't such a good idea.
>
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