So we all might not be aerospace engineers. But that doesn't stop me from building balastic missles or rockets that have more HP than the truck I drive.

 

FM
Thanks for the testimonial. I really wanted to hear from someone who has exeriance with one of these. As I stated several times I really dont mind the cost of paper fitlers its just the hassle of haveing to bring them in from 8000 miles away if I want them at anything less than 3 times normal price.
Cheers Jim

 

FWIW, I believe they're used in aircraft, so that's probably good enough for me.

 

Any particle smaller than a dump truck won't phase the chainsaw....errr the mighty KLX engine.

 

Had them in several bikes over the last decade, nothing bad happened. Wouldn't be afraid of them. One thing that may or not have been mentioned, is at cold start up they will filter the cold thick oil without bypass. Compared to possibly minutes (if you use thick oil) of running un filtered oil and whatever else settled at the bottom of the sump through the motor. The other reason I use them has just been convenience and ease of inspection.

 

I put one in my ktm 640 Adventure about 2 years ago......if an lc4 is happy with a ss filter da klx is golden.

 

Gettin two on order. Thanks for all the varied opinions.

 

I am in the Hydraulic Business and can tell you that the best filters are:

Glass media with Beta Ratio = or > than 200.

In simple terms if you passed oil through the filter one time and dropped 100 particles of the size before the filter and it is rated to remove (lets say 10 Micron absolute) a Beta 200 filter would remove 99.9 of those particles in one pass.

Other considerations is dirt holding capacity. (how much the element will hold before the pressure drop across it puts the oil inot by-pass (means it is not filtering any more).

As far as being able to clean an element? In most cases that element has to be cleaned with an ultra-sonic cleaning machine. Spraying it down with carb cleaner probably is not going to get the job done.

The issue with many Mfg is that they need to buy at the lowest price they can (we demand it as consumers) so they will buy components that may not be the best but good enough as not to impun the reputation or cause safety concerns or excessive warranty costs.

What does that leave us with? Some companies pick up the slack and we are willing to pay more for after market goodies that give us better performance. Because the Mfg of these after market parts does not need to meet the price constraints of a Manufactures buyer/Purchasing Agent (or cheap consumers) thus they can make better stuff and charge more because we will pay it.