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...for the life of your engine.
Why are we all supposed to change our engine oil so frequently?
Oil does not wear out!!
Only the additives can 'wear out'...if we let them!.
It's true that all cars have an oil filter. It's also true that this filter, called a full-flow filter, is really little more than a strainer of large particles. Most full-flow filters as fitted to modern car engines can not filter much under 35 microns!
There are good reasons why they can't, mainly due to the need to allow a large flow of oil through the filter medium quickly. The oil pump is pushing 90 litres + per minute through the oil ways, and a fine filter would impede this flow and cause the oil pressure to drop off the scale. The result is that most particles smaller than 30 microns pass straight through the full-flow filter and build up in suspension in the oil.
The problem with this is that the particles which cause most engine wear are between 5 and 15 microns. These can become pulled into the oil film in a bearing, (which is only 3 to 5 microns thick) where they crush through and abrade the bearing surfaces. The same goes for piston rings, pistons and cylinder bores.
Ultimately, if these 5 to 15 micron particles can be removed from the oil, along with water and acids, the oil will keep healthy almost indefinitely, as long as its additive cocktail is kept topped-up. By additive cocktail, we mean the additives blended into the oil as part of its specific design, by its manufacturers. We do not recommend any aftermarket oil additives.
Our systems will do just this!
Our complete oil cleaning system is designed to remove particles down to one tenth of a micron, (the size of particle you see in cigarette smoke), plus water, from the oil. This means that the oil never gets full of wear producing particles, and stays as clean, or sometimes cleaner, than the oil you poured into the engine from the freshly opened container. In fact, oil analysis shows that even brand new oil has some particles in these minuscule sizes, and these same oil analyses show that after bypass filtration, the levels in all ranges of diameter are less than in new oil.
This graph shows how without a Frantz filter fitted, abrasive particles or dirt builds up in the oil till levels are so high you have to throw away the oil and put new oil in.
The blue line shows how with the Frantz filter, the oil actually stays cleaner than new....according to the ISO oil cleanliness test ratings. No buildup of abrasive dirt means that oilchanges becomes uneccessary....all you need do is change the Frantz filter core at recommended intervals.
Your engine will have no wear particle load carried around in its oil, and tests have shown that engine wear effectively stops once a bypass oil filter, or complete oil cleaning system, is fitted. Periodic analysis of the oil in long haulage truck engines in the USA has shown that the Frantz Filter keeps the oil within manufacturers specifications past 500,000 miles without actually changing the oil!
While most people will probably find this unbelievable, it's perfectly correct. It has to be said that the filter medium must be changed at regular intervals, depending on conditions of use, but on average 10,000 miles. This job of changing the filter medium is in no way comparable to the unpleasant and expensive job of changing the oil and full flow filter which we are all familiar with, which generates so much filthy oil. The filter medium change is a 5 minute job, easily done with the bonnet open, and will not allow more than 5cc of oil to be shed, easily contained in a small plastic bag.
So how does the system work?
It's extremely simple. The engines oil system is accessed at two points.
Oil is taken (often via a T piece in the oil pressure sender hole,) through a small bore rubber or stainless steel braided pipe and led to a filter housing containing a very fine filter medium. The oil passes through a restrictor jet which prevents it from flowing too fast through the filter medium. Oil passes up through the central column of the medium in a larger pipe then down through a 4" depth of tightly packed long fibre paper material, which though simple, has been proven to outperform more complex and expensive synthetic filter media.
It is also very much cheaper to replace, costing around £5 (replacement filter elements including postage), rather than the £30 plus to replace some of the spin-on type bypass filter replacement canisters.
The oil, having passed through the filter, returns through another pipe to either the sump or an adapted filler cap.
About 10% of the oil flow is treated in each passage of the oil around the engine, and within 30 minutes, all the oil has gone through the new, fine, filter of the oil cleaning system and is analytically clean.
It will stay that way as long as the filter medium is changed and the oil level maintained as normal, new oil being added to replace any used by the engine in the usual way.
This normal running top-up program, and the oil added each time the oil saturated filter medium is changed, means that the oil's additive cocktail, developed by the oil manufacturer, is kept up to its specified levels.
This is possible even with massive distances between oil changes, because with the oil being analytically clean, the additives, which are by nature 'sacrificial', are not being 'used up' in the same way as if they have to deal with a lot of muck in the oil.
We do not recommend attempting long distances between oil changes with normal multigrade mineral oils, however. The reason for this is that they will, over time, lose their viscosity by 'shearing', the breakdown of the longchain polymers which give them the "Multigrade" characteristics, plus they will evaporate part of their volume, again changing the viscosity.
For longer distances without oil changes, you MUST use a shear-stable oil, effectively a true 100% synthetic such as Amsoil or Motul fully synthetic.
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Frantz Oil Filter will pay for itself
The Frantz Oil Filter will pay for itself in ten (10) oil changes or less, and can be taken from car to car, engine to engine forever.