I'm not trying to be a smart [EDIT] here, but with all you K&N bashers out there, you all got me thinking a bit about my intake system. I changed my oil on 8-27-05 and had 5k on the oil. The oil was Wal-Mart SuperTech 15w40 Universal Motor Oil and the filter was a Wal-Mart SuperTech filter also!!!! Here is the results of my analysis......

WEAR METALS

Aluminum..............7
Chromium.............<2
Copper.................8
Iron......................21
Lead.....................3
Tin........................6
Silicon....................5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
Potassium................4
Sodium....................7
Moly.......................2

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

Water.................<0.1
Oxidation...............<2.0
Vics@100...............14.5
Glycol...................ND
Fuel......................<2.0
TBN......................9.8
Nitration................<2.0
Soot.....................0.6

So what do all you K&N bashers have to say about this report?????????!!!!!!!! Any replies are appreciated!!!!

 

I don't see a listing for DIRT!! ....... maybe they don't look for that???

Isn't sand a form of silicon
Potassium is fertilizer
Sodium is for indigestion
Moly is the ugly chick down the street

 

silicon = dirt

 

So, did I do a one of them K&N bash things???

Or did I find plain old dirt??

 

I've been using K&Ns on both my trucks for over ten years, never had one oil analysis silicon come back over 5 ppm. I only service the K&Ns every 100k.
Only reason I can figure why people bash K&N is because they don't know how to install and service them correctly or they are just parroting something they heard elsewhere.

 

Well said, and I agree 100%!!!!!!

 

I agree also. Everyone is using an AFE, which is the same filter,which is made by engineers who were fired from K&N "AFE" All Fired Engineers!!!!!!!!!

 

OK, remove your intake tube after the turbo, stick your finger in, wipe
it around the see what you get...... a dirty finger!

I would bet your a non-smoker too...... right.

 

Not on mine Dude!!!!! No dirt; and I used a couple clean white sheets of TP to check. No oil from the filter in there either which seems to be another alledged problem you all claim with K&N.

I keep wondering if some of you all will now say I fudged the numbers on my oil analysis because it was too "clean"!!!

 

Isn't amazing how 'washed' folks get from perhaps a dirty intake tube but yet they never show the proof? I deal with Cummins here and they tell me dusted engines are primarily from poor maintenance and they have not seen a Ram with an aftermarket filter with a failure from poor filtration.

I would like an explanation as to why my 96 Ram had dust trails in the air box, dust down the tube and even with that there was only a reading of 9PPM.
That was with the stock filter from the factory on a new truck...it had 9700 kilometers on it when I discovered that. So I say...run away...far away from the factory filters...they leak dirt.

 

Well for what I have heard the K&N's don't meet the Cummins tests for abaility to stop particles and to hold the dust particles. Which air filter gets dirtier faster???? As for sodium you might not be living in an area that uses as much as in other areas.

 

Sodium comes from anti-freeze leaking into the oil, not road salt.

 

[QUOTE=Dorkweed]I'm not trying to be a smart [EDIT] here, but with all you K&N bashers out there, you all got me thinking a bit about my intake system. I changed my oil on 8-27-05 and had 5k on the oil. The oil was Wal-Mart SuperTech 15w40 Universal Motor Oil and the filter was a Wal-Mart SuperTech filter also!!!!


Just curious....is that Wally World Oil rated for Diesels? Thought it was just for gassers....

 

[QUOTE=PapaPerk]Yes it is diesel rated. The latest one also!! It's the one in the blue bottles.

 

I sure hope it's Ok because I started using it this past oil change!

Mark