First time cutting my oil filter. Take a look.

[ragedracer1977]

1540 SMOH.  220 SNEW cylinders.  This is all the metal I could find in the filter.  The small little ball appears to be carbon. The rest is ferrous.  Very thin "shavings".  Good? Bad? About what you would expect?

I have no idea, so...

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[Hank]

I'd say no problem.

And I like the old penny. The new ones have such shallow engraving . . . . .

Standard discalimer, just a PP but I do change my own oil.

[EricJ]

You're good.   Keep the penny, it's all copper and worth more than face value.

 

[jetdriven]

COuld be lifter faces. They form platelets. Cam spalling is hairs. But the only thing to do is run it and monitor. If it increases you have your answer. 

[carusoam]

My C always gave a flake or two at annual...

When you reach for a teaspoon to measure the quantity of shiny flakes, that is alarming... 

PP thoughts only...

Best regards,

-a-

[BDPetersen]

The guru for oil filter analysis is Howard Fenton, Fenton Oil  Analysis. 918-492-5844. Blackstone was his baby before he passed it on. He’s always willing to chat ( calm me down) and may have you send some pleats from a suspect filter for particle identification. ( Hopefully not able to read part numbers on them.) 

Doesnt look like your filter findings rise to that level.

[DualRatedFlyer]

Did you pull the suction screen as well?  I have been wanting to pull mine during an oil change to have a look mostly out of curiosity, but I know I would never be able to get that thing safety wired again.  Believe the manual specified doing so at 100hr or annual.

[MARZ]

Was that buried in the filter media? Or was it on the outer edge?  I've seen a shop use a filter cutter that left fine metal on the surface edge as a result of cutting the "Can" 

[ragedracer1977]

Buried in the pleats.  I ran a magnet all over them and this is what it picked up.  No other visible metals of any kind

[Vance Harral]

The first time we ever changed the oil on our engine, we found a flake or two like that in the pleats.

That was 14 years and about 1000 hours ago.

In the interim, we've seen a flake or two like that every once in a while.  Recent changes have been clean.

It is indeed a good idea to pull the pickup screen, especially if you don't know when it was last done.  Don't be surprised if it's full of carbon flakes.  Yes, it's a bit of a pain.  Long-nose pliers and dikes make a big difference in the amount of cussing necessary to get the job done.

[Marauder]

Also take a close look at your cut on the filter itself. I have seen a couple of times where the filter cut resulted in a few slivers (and even the paint) ending up on the filter element.


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[Bob_Belville]

I cut the filter at every oil change and have Nathan r & r the screen at about every other oil change. Always happy to find nothing. (Nathan safety wires screens almost every day and makes it look easy.)

[jaylw314]

2 hours ago, Bob_Belville said:

I cut the filter at every oil change and have Nathan r & r the screen at about every other oil change. Always happy to find nothing. (Nathan safety wires screens almost every day and makes it look easy.)

I'm too lazy and cheap to buy an filter cutter and cut mine.  I just drop by my A&P, who always cheerfully attacks it does it for me in 5 minutes for free.  His hands are already dirty anyway, and he likes helping me because I let the filter drain for a few days or a week.

I got a bunch of tiny "speckles" that would have added up to the size of a pencil point the first couple changes with a remanufactured engine, but those were expected and have since stopped.