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clear and clean oil after 3,000 miles

Black oil just means the oilis doing it's job. Oil after a change will always change color, and the filter you use will have very little effect. It has nothing to do with with a dirty engine. If you didn't have black oil i would be concerned. You have combustion by product from gasoline burning that cannot be filtered out.
Don't worry about it and change at the specified interval.

The only way you can tell the condition is to go through an oil analysis. Color has no beaing on the conditon of the engine or the oil.
 
Kevinm said:
Black oil just means the oilis doing it's job. Oil after a change will always change color, and the filter you use will have very little effect. It has nothing to do with with a dirty engine. If you didn't have black oil i would be concerned. You have combustion by product from gasoline burning that cannot be filtered out.
Don't worry about it and change at the specified interval.

The only way you can tell the condition is to go through an oil analysis. Color has no beaing on the conditon of the engine or the oil.
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Until recently I would have agreed with you. Since experiencing the oil staying much cleaning looking when using Pure One or its near clone Bosch oil filters I would now have to disagree. Try one and see for yourself.
 
Big Jim said:
Until recently I would have agreed with you. Since experiencing the oil staying much cleaning looking when using Pure One or its near clone Bosch oil filters I would now have to disagree. Try one and see for yourself.
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Thats with the same exact oil and the same air filter being used? He's right about a used oil analysis being the only way to tell for sure how the oils doing though. Color has been proven very inaccurate.
 
I would need to check my maintenance log to see what oils I've used with those filters, but it has been more than one brand, brands that I have also run with Motorcraft filters. It has happened enough times that I don't think the oil brand matters.
 
Well that runs contrary to what thousands of UOAs say over on BITOG. Some oils turn much darker much faster and it even differs from batch to batch with the same oil.
 
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