Help me inspect my oil filter element.

[Let'sgoflying!]

Cutting open & examining the oil filter is an important (and nail-biting) aviation maintenance practice.
It is not taught well, and there are few good explanations out there on how to do it.
I want to bring light to, and correct this glaring deficiency. I am no expert at it but I thought if we put our heads together we could come up with some Best Practices for this.
I video'd my filter examination yesterday and just wondered if you would have a look and help me put together some info on this topic.

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

I'm pretty sure that the major problem is that you didn't pay a properly certificated A&P to do the inspection for you. Everything else looks OK to me.

 

[ircphoenix]

Cutting open & examining the oil filter is an important (and nail-biting) aviation maintenance practice.
It is not taught well, and there are few good explanations out there on how to do it.
I want to bring light to, and correct this glaring deficiency. I am no expert at it but I thought if we put our heads together we could come up with some Best Practices for this.
I video'd my filter examination yesterday and just wondered if you would have a look and help me put together some info on this topic.

Thank God for that filter. Can you imagine if that last bit made it into the engine?

 

[Ravioli]

You got me! I didn't think this was coming from Studio 6PC or the eMan Academy.

Very nice!

 

[coloradobluesky]

Not sure about yours, but there are usually little hard bits of carbon and that is normal. Any metal is abnormal.

 

[Joshuajayg]

How were the comressions? Just use some Phillips X/C and camguard, you'll be fine.

 

[Unit74]

How were the comressions? Just use some Phillips X/C and camguard, you'll be fine.

Heard it's the preferred combo on fleet turbines from someone in the know too..... I forget who that was though.

 

[Clark1961]

Heard it's the preferred combo on fleet turbines from someone in the know too..... I forget who that was though.

I thought fleet went out of business

 

[NoHeat]

Video is great.

Nice and short.

If it had gone on any longer, as you scanned the length of the filter media, I would have worried you might have found something awful. Maybe even something really awful, like fragments of a broken AOA indicator.

 

[pmanton]

Some years ago I was filling in as the line mechanic for a Community College with an A&P and a flight school. Filter inspection became a teaching opportunity. Students would cut open the can and inspect the media under my supervision. Nice no dirty hands nor oil drips on my clothing.

 

[NoHeat]

There are actually serious replies to the OP ...

Makes me wonder how many people actually click on a link in the OP (in this case, a really good video) vs how many just read the thread's title and a few words, then hit reply?

 

[Katamarino]

I actually watched it hoping I'd learn about how to open and inspect my oil filter. Dammit.