Hi, I'm Wade from Thoroughbred Diesel, and want to talk to you just a little bit about
6.0 Powerstroke oil filters.
Now, the 6.0 Powerstrokes, what's going on with these oil filters?
If you're a 6.0 Powerstroke owner, you know about this.
We are new 6.0 owners here at the shop.
We got a test truck here, bought in the winter of last year, and we've begun doing some of
our installation videos on this.
We had seen some videos about the differences in the oil filter for the 6.0 Powerstrokes.
Just wanted to talk to you just a little bit today about that and what's going on with
these.
Now when we got this truck, sure enough, this had an aftermarket oil filter on it.
Right out of the gate.
And the way you know it, when you watch this video and leave you with this note so you
remember.
On all of the aftermarket oil filters, it says it in big letters, it'll say, "Do not
reuse cap."
It'll be really easy to see there.
Make sure that you're paying attention for it.
The reason why you cannot reuse the cap on these filters, and it's supposed to be attached
together, you'll see in our installation video to this, the filter that was on this truck
actually came apart and left you with the cap.
When you order the oil filter, when you order it genuine Motorcraft oil filter, the oil
filter that's designed to be in these trucks, it comes in just an element form.
So it's really easy for you guys as owners to be confused by this.
You order an oil filter, you get just the element.
What are you going to do?
Well, you take this out and then you've got the cap and the filter.
Well, what you got to do is you've got to pull this out of there, or what some people
do.
The reason why that's a bad deal because this filter does not fit in this cap.
So it doesn't stay.
It's at a different depth, and it's because of the cap.
And I'll show you the depth of that in just a second.
Now the reason, now you're saying, "Well, why does that matter?
Why does the depth of the oil filter matter?"
Inside of this canister there's a drain valve.
And what happens when you take the oil filter, the oil element out of the canister, that
opens the valve and all of the dirty oil goes out of there.
That way, when you go to put a filter back in here, you don't have oil splashing around
and it's actually going to be the oil that's going to reenter the canister is going to
be filtered oil.
So that goes out.
If you were to put a genuine Motorcraft, or just the element inside of this cap, the depth
is not right.
So what you're going to have happen there is you're not going to get that seal on the
old drain valve, and you could have a catastrophic failure of your motor.
It won't build up oil pressure, it may not even start.
You might get a few miles down the road, wipe the motor out.
Any way it goes, it's a bad, bad deal.
So if you've bought truck and it's got an aftermarket filter on it that's got the different
cap, the cap again will say on it, "Do not reuse cap."
If you have that, it's after market.
What you'll have to do at that point, we sell these on the website.
This is the genuine Motorcraft oil filter cap.
This is the one that's going to work in conjunction with the oil filter.
You can see the two of them work together.
Snap together, just a much, much better filter.
The cap we have available on the website.
Again, genuine Motorcraft.
Once ... Talk just a little bit about the caps before we go into showing you the canister
and what's going on inside of there.
The caps, we offer, this is the genuine Motorcraft again, on the website.
We offer some really, really nice billet machine.
Once we offer some from Sinister Diesel, we offer them from Bosstech.
We've got them from Beans Diesel that are on the site.
So several different really, really good manufacturers.
If I left out any, I apologize guys.
Just look on the website for oil filler cap, or oil filter cap on the website.
Search that, all of the built ones will come up.
Some really, really nice products inside of there.
So that's another [inaudible 00:03:56] from there.
And I want to show you something and I'll show you when you get inside the canister
how this works, how that oil drain works.
But I wanted to show you something that was kind of cool on these.
So on your Motorcraft, you're going to have a felt seal on the bottom of these that'll
go around the standpipe there.
With the aftermarket ones, you're getting a rubber seal.
This has been known to come apart.
The rubber seals to have known to come apart.
This will go through your oil system, can plug up your IPR valve.
You've got another no start condition.
It's a bad deal.
And there was actually a raised surface on the bottom of this filter.
If you look there, there's a raised surface.
It's not much, but it can be enough to put added pressure on that drain valve that's
in your oil canister.
Maybe even break it.
Then you've got to replace the whole oil canister.
So there's a whole lot of different things that are going on with this filter that;s
just bad juju.
Now, if you want to continue to run them, it's no problem.
You just can't go back to this.
You can't go back to the original OE style filter, which is what we suggest, going back
to the OE style filter.
Because these engines are designed to run the OE style filter.
So now let's get in the engine bay, let's take a look inside the oil canister and see
what we've got.
All right, so before we went top side into this motor, Adam and I were standing here
talking about this situation with these oil filters and just how kind of ridiculous it
is.
So we went to take the oil cap off of here, and was going to allow my oil canister drain.
This truck, like we were telling you, has totally got one of the oil caps on it, after
market oil caps that says, "Do not reuse cap," right on top of it in big old letters there.
I went to take the cap off of it, and guess what.
Filter didn't come with it.
And as I was pulling it up, I was like, "Oh my gosh, we're staring down the barrel of
these guys have used the stock Motorcraft filter back in here.
How in the world did this truck survive?"
Doesn't look like you did it.
Inside of that cap it's got catches on this.
And this must've been a little bit of a cheaper one.
It's got catches in there for the filter, but as ... With the filter falling down out
of the cap, I'm not too sure that the alignment of this was correct on the drain back valve,
or the drain valve for this canister.
So we're going to look in there and I want to show you that valve.
This truck wasn't having oil pressure problems, but it was having some hard start issues.
So definitely going to be something that we're going to look at there.
And this could have been one of the causes of that.
So I'm going to go ahead and ease this filter out.
Throw it away.
And you can see the difference of that.
You know what, let me grab a rag here.
I'm going to show one more thing as that it's coming out.
The difference in the length of those filters, you can tell that just from right there.
So you're not going to have the correct engagement on that filter to this valve that we're going
to show you.
All right, so we wanted to show you inside of the canister what was going on here.
Here is the drain valve.
And what happens with this drain valve, when you take the fuel filter ... Or the oil filter
out of here, that allows this to come up.
And then that lets all of the old residual oil in the filter housing and the oil filter
housing to drain out of the housing.
That way you don't have contaminated old oil in this housing on the outside of your new
filter there.
So when you set your filter down that closes this valve, and then it's able to ... The
truck is able to make oil pressure.
Because this right here, this just might as well ... If this is open and you use the wrong
size oil filter here, and this is open, you might as well have a hole knocked in inside
of your block.
Because it's going to definitely hurt your oil pressure.
So this is the importance of these filters.
Hopefully that you can see that Adam.
Move your flashlight back towards you just a foot there.
Yeah.
I think you're on the wrong side of the spring.
You need to come closer to you.
There you go.
So yeah.
Now there you are right there.
So shows you the valve and what we're up against.
So again, very important to use the proper oil filters here.
If you had continued to use the aftermarket set up with this, you've just got to stay
here.
You don't have the option to go back to the OE style filter, but to go into good filtration,
OE filtration, get yourself the new Motorcraft or the Motorcraft cap, Motorcraft oil filter
and go back the way the system was designed.
So if you have a question about 6.0 oil filters or any of our other videos, just give us a
call.
Adam likes to flash the light at me so ... As always, thanks for watching.
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