I don’t have an airplane but I do have hard to reach, horizontally mounted oil filters on my old school Hondas, that dump oil all over the place when changed. This tool might be a good solution to that issue !
Ingenious product. I’m wondering whether this would backwash any filtered metal out of the filter and make it tougher to detect (by cutting open the filter) when the engine is “making metal.” Any thoughts on that?
Now I might be wrong here but I am pretty sure an aviation filter is designed like a auto filter. Oil enters the filter thru the small holes on the out side and exits the filter thru the middle. There is a rubber gasket that acts as a one way valve on the filter not allowing it to pass oil back out the way it came in. So the air would only come out of the middle hole and no undesirable materials could exit the filter. If you notice in his video at one point when he has the air hooked up he puts his finger over the middle port on the filter and stops the air.
Hi, brilliant idea and design. Thanks for sharing. One question for you. As the filter may have trapped some undesirables doing its job, would it be possible that you are releasing those bad elements back into the engine?
Now I might be wrong here but I am pretty sure an aviation filter is designed like a auto filter. Oil enters the filter thru the small holes on the out side and exits the filter thru the middle. There is a rubber gasket that acts as a one way valve on the filter not allowing it to pass oil back out the way it came in. So the air would only come out of the middle hole and no undesirable materials could exit the filter. If you notice in his video at one point when he has the air hooked up he puts his finger over the middle port on the filter and stops the air.
Why would you think that? For future onlookers it will not blow your oil filter gasket because it’s not a closed system. The pressure simply flows through your engine and out your oil drain.
