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Originally Posted by Jamesp
Hmm.... unfiltered, or "fresh off the oil pump, immediately before (my bold) the oil would have been rammed through the filter". Hmm... before the oil goes through the filter... seems to me that would be the very definition of unfiltered. And I am talking about nasty metal filled oil, there will be wear particles in all engine oil, that would be what the filter is for... I totally agree about the "same splash oil used in any other option". That's why I didn't go with those. Particulate in a mechanical bearing = failure. Best to keep the bearing sealed, and the grease in the bearing.
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I worded it carefully enough that I felt like I acknowledged where the oil came from. Not trying to get into an argument James, I totally respect your input on anything I've seen here.
My point is that in a normal running engine there should be zero loose metal. Since it would seem that most wayward metal in the M96
comes from the stock IMS the last place I'm worried about pumping metal through is an already failing bearing.
Once
any metal starts coming off that bearing the s*** show has begun, and the place I'd LOVE to see protected from loose metal would be the mains and rod bearings, and the LN full flow oil filter does that far better than the stock system.
Those main and rod bearings required more than a little wrench turning for me to hold in my hands.