oil filter magnet?
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Saw this on ebay, not that I would pay $8 for a magnet, but what do you all think about sticking a magnet on the outside of the oil filter?
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Why?
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For the same reason Porsche puts a magnet in the drain plug. But, considering that there is so little steel in our engines and gravity and filtration tends to hold any remaining steel shavings that may reach the filter, the $8 for an additional magnet sounds like a waste.
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The purpose, I assume, is to trap any iron (the cam lobes being the principal suspect). The factory provides a magnet in the drain plug, directly exposed to the oil and which should be quite effective at trapping any iron. I think the purpose is to be a"tell-tale" rather than try to trap all of the metal.
Porsche used very large magnets in the 356 and 912 sump (along with a bypass filter!), it was very effective at collecting my camshaft lobes a few decades ago.
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Does anyone have experience with anything showing up on the 928's engine drain-plug magnet?
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If you have steel particles that can get throught the filter, you have bigger problems than a lousy magnet. It's a vaste of time. The drain plug magnet was a good idea by Porsche, but to slap a rubberized magnet of the oil filter is a total waste of money.
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Same thing as the magnetic fuel polarizers that go on the gas lines.
http://www.fuel-polarizer.com/details.html
BTW nothing "shields" magnetic fields, but metal can shape the field like glass does in a lens. Put a modern strong magnet on the outside of a steel oil filter and it will be plenty strong of a field on the inside attracting stuff to the steel wall, but sounds like a non issue for us.
Which way is the flow through the filter, inside to out, outside to in?
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http://www.fuel-polarizer.com/details.html
BTW nothing "shields" magnetic fields, but metal can shape the field like glass does in a lens. Put a modern strong magnet on the outside of a steel oil filter and it will be plenty strong of a field on the inside attracting stuff to the steel wall, but sounds like a non issue for us.
Which way is the flow through the filter, inside to out, outside to in?
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http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/cons...tos/aut10.shtm
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if you use a magnet with amsoil, you will neutralize its lubriction properties, turning it into cooking oil. ![Smilie](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
a magnet? if you got magnet stuff in your oil, you got problems.!
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a magnet? if you got magnet stuff in your oil, you got problems.!
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if you got magnet stuff in your oil, you got problems.!
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No. Oil flows outside to inside in the filter. There's a rubber lip inside the cannister at the top that acts as a kind of check valve, easy to see when you look at your filters pre-installation. It keeps oil from being drained or drawn back through the pump and siphoning into the sump again.