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Would an oil filter that did not work at all cause damage to the engine?
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∙ 16y ago
An oil filter filters out any dirt and pieces of junk that might be floating around in your oil. From time to time, tiny metal shavings do find their way in there, and if you get metal rubbing on metal at 2500 RPM, well, then you can't be surprised if something bad happens. An oil filter is about 4 bucks, and if you don't change it when you change your oil (every 3000 miles please) bad things will happen. An oil filter, if you don't change it for 10 years, will clog, and the pressure in there will pretty much have torn it apart anyway.
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