02-18-2016, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by jpc763
Magnet price is great. Shipping is a ripoff!
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Did you look at ALL the shipping options? UPS looked high, I clicked on USPS, shipped 28 pieces (4 Boxsters) for $7 Priority mail.
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02-18-2016, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by 78F350
Did you look at ALL the shipping options? UPS looked high, I clicked on USPS, shipped 28 pieces (4 Boxsters) for $7 Priority mail.
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My Bad. I did not see the USPS option. I have ordered!
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02-18-2016, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by lkchris View Post
This is pretty much mostly hype. Oil filter will trap most--surely >95%--of the dangerous stuff.
Lots of engines go hundreds of thousands of miles without magnets in their oil.
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Originally Posted by jc986 View Post
I think I have to agree with lkchris, don't really need the magnets when the filter is there already doing the same thing - stopping metal flakes AND other non-magnetic debris, like aluminum, dirt, etc from getting into the engine.
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Bought a boxster last year... had regular drain plug. Look what the magnetic drain plug caught that the oil filter did not.
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02-18-2016, 09:10 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Niche
Bought a boxster last year... had regular drain plug. Look what the magnetic drain plug caught that the oil filter did not.
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you are not shyting us are you Javier?
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02-18-2016, 08:29 AM
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^ To be fair, I think the oil filter would have caught that too. 
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02-19-2016, 08:58 AM
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you are not shyting us are you Javier?
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Nope. Adam Gill does all my work now and he sent me that picture when he put in the deep sump. You can see the scratches at the bottom of the sump from where it was... apparently for a long time!
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02-20-2016, 05:42 AM
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What about a big ass magnet in the oil pan ?
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02-20-2016, 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Xpit77
What about a big ass magnet in the oil pan ?
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Nice concept, but how would you observe and remove the collected ferrous grit? It would require pulling the sump cover, which is a lot more effort than changing the oil filter during normal maintenance cycles.
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02-22-2016, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Niche
Nope. Adam Gill does all my work now and he sent me that picture when he put in the deep sump. You can see the scratches at the bottom of the sump from where it was... apparently for a long time!
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The burning question is did he discover where it came from and put it back?
 Note: Mandatory Precautions for Samarium-Cobalt magnets: Be careful with those magnets because they are so strong that if you let them adhere to each other it takes a lot of force to separate them, and if you get some skin between them its going to hurt. These are not your weak little horseshoe magnets you played with as a child. You've been warned!
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Last edited by jb92563; 02-22-2016 at 11:27 AM.
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02-22-2016, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by jb92563
The burning question is did he discover where it came from and put it back?
Note: Mandatory Precautions for Samarium-Cobalt magnets: Be careful with those magnets because they are so strong that if you let them adhere to each other it takes a lot of force to separate them, and if you get some skin between them its going to hurt. These are not your weak little horseshoe magnets you played with as a child. You've been warned! |
I take it you know that from experience (ouch!)
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02-25-2016, 05:28 AM
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Originally Posted by JayG
I take it you know that from experience (ouch!)
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Yaa, got pinched and then gave these little guys a lot more respect.
guy_loses_finger_to_neodymium
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02-26-2016, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by jb92563
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Yikes! That is scary.
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02-22-2016, 05:09 PM
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The burning question is did he discover where it came from and put it back?
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Nope! Running great though.
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02-22-2016, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Niche
Nope! Running great though.
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I thought it was a joke too. Looks like one of the bolts that holds on the oil pickup tube, or the two swirl pots - each of these has two bolts. The most worrisome would be the oil pickup, if that gets loose at all at the top where it joins the engine with the o-ring, it could suck air instead of oil which could be catastrophic.
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02-23-2016, 03:48 PM
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Pick up tube bolts were. There were other possibilities, but in the end we couldn't figure it out. That's what happens when you buy a car from a hot rodder who doesn't care much for german cars.
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03-15-2016, 01:14 PM
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I was using my old housing to test fit the magnets and it seems like it was easier to keep them in place if they were the same polarity wise. I used some duct take to hold them in place until I got them all on and tightened the hose clamp.
If the were alternated polarity, they wanted to jump to each other.
I could be wrong as to same or alternating polarity, but flipping them around made a difference to attract or repel.
IIRC, same polarity repels and opposite attracts
BTW, I bought a 2.25-3" clamp and it is fine
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04-09-2018, 01:07 PM
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Just a bump for a good simple bang-for-the-buck mod...
Keeps and trace-ferrous debris from going through your filter and wearing your engine.
My most recent filter check after about 5k miles:
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