 Hello boys and girls, a quick video on how to open up and inspect your used oil filter. Now this is something you can do on a regular basis. I would probably recommend, especially if you have a high mileage car, an older car, you may want to do this every other oil change. Just to see if there's anything going on inside your engine. Let's say, for example, if you do find metal shavings, tiny little spectacles, metal particles before the engine starts to knock, because if you do have metal particles inside your engine, it is too late. It's just a matter of time, how and when it's gonna fail. But you could probably make it last a little longer if you use something like Lucas Oil Stabilizer, you know, that thick stuff that you put inside your engine with your engine oil. I actually had a guy with an 07 Nissan Frontier. It's the 4.0 V6 engine, good engines. The truck had 220 or 250,000 miles, a lot, a lot of miles, and it started to knock. And he wanted to replace the rod bearings. And as you may know or not, it is a lot of work and it just wasn't worth it at the time to replace the rod bearings. The engine was already knocking at a certain RPM, I believe it was around 3000. So from that point on, I actually took the oil filter apart, did an inspection, like I'm gonna right now and I did find, you know, tiny little particles. And I told the guy, listen man, if I'm gonna start digging, I'm gonna find more and more stuff that's probably ready to replace with this kind of high mileage car. You know, it's not a semi-truck diesel engine where it's a regular maintenance kind of every 700,000, 500,000 sometimes, sometimes a million depends what engine you have. Since this engine was already knocking, I told him to start using Lucas Oil and it actually did not knock anymore, he was taking it easy and the engine lasted for almost another year until it failed. On the highway, last compression had to get told. Anyways, let's get to the filter. Alright, so this is a mobile one filter. Now the main tool you wanna use is these kind of sheet metal cutters or snips as they call them and what you do, if that's the only tool you have, what you do is you start cutting right over here. This is the hard part. If you have any other cutters like these, this will make your day a bit easier just to get it going. So I'm using the table to press it down. Okay, it's tough because there's several layers of metal on this edge around here. So once I get through that, back to the snips and now once you get going, it's actually very easy. There we go. Now the reason why you wanna use a tool like this instead of a power tool, a grinder for example, because you wanna avoid bringing any particles from the outside inside the filter. It should be obvious. So this filter has about, I'm gonna guess now, maybe two, three hundred miles on it, maybe a bit more, but it has half of those miles, maybe more. We're on E85 and as some of you may know, E85, if you're running E85, some of that ethanol will get through the piston rings and into the oil. I can actually smell the ethanol and you don't want that. I mean, you know, there's no way around it. Ketchkins can help to get rid of some of that stuff. I am running three ketchkins, but you probably want to replace your oil after each track day. Anyways, I'm gonna take a look inside here. I don't know if you can see anything or not. Now don't be fooled by these bubbles. I do have bubbles in this oil trying to get rid of the bubbles. I do see a little bit of shiny stuff. Remember, this is a brand new engine, so I'm not surprised there is some stuff in there. Alright, let's get to the actual filter. As the oil comes in from the engine, it goes through these holes, which would be more or less like that. It goes in here, comes out from the middle, back to your engine, so in, out. So just to make this more visible, instead of just going like this, because you can start checking just by doing this, I'm gonna cut this paper out and I'm gonna be able to have a better visual. Ouch, ouch, ouch. Don't cut yourself. Alright, there was blood. I don't know how YouTube works, but they're gonna show blood. Anyways, back to cutting. And here we go. I'm looking at this black dot. Yeah, this is soft. This is probably RTV. Yeah, it's nothing. Ignore these shiny little guys. That's from cutting the filter. Alright, more of this black stuff. Some dirt or something. Doesn't feel like metal, and it's black. It does look like metal, kind of. It does have a shine to it. Put this aside and keep going. This is part of the filter. Yeah, so this is questionable. This also could be part of the thrust bearing. You know, the crankshaft likes to walk a little bit. There is a tiny amount of clay back and forth on the crankshaft, and that's what the thrust bearings are for. So yeah, it does look like, well, I don't know, at this point, it's one piece. And still, this engine has, I believe, about a thousand miles on it right now. And that is it, guys. That's how you check your used oil filter. Like I said before, this is mainly to catch early on if there's something bad going on inside your engine. And if you do catch something, the bail for the repairs will be less. If you want to fix your engine, replace rod bearings, other stuff. Alright, thanks for watching, and I'll see you soon.