[A4] Cut open my oil filter

[Arthur Marks]

The car is running well. The pressure hasn't dropped off since cleaning the engine and installing the new oil pump and screen. I've strained and reused the oil a couple of times before this oil and filter change after 1400 miles to ensure that the screen doesn't become clogged again by the remaining sludge.

--Art

a link on oil filter analysis that I just found:
http://www.cancutter.com/how_to_inspect.htm


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan DiBiase 
  To: Arthur Marks ; quattro at audifans.com ; a4 at audifans.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [A4] Cut open my oil filter


  Arthur Marks <aamarks at cox.net> wrote:

    Here's the innards of the Mahle filter I just took off my A4 1.8T with the 
    sludge problem (for a refresher: the problem arose under Audi care -- 
    original filter spec and dino oil as Audi had not yet switched their 
    specs -- at the second oil change which was 12471 miles after the first). 
    Inside of the engine has been cleaned according to the Audi Sludge TSB.


  Interesting - but kind of hard to tell if it looks good or bad by a picture... And actually, having never seen the innards of an oil filter (used) before, I probably couldn't even tell if I saw it in person!

  How is the car running now?

  Dan D
  '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
  Central NJ USA