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It is NOT that the filter is plugged...
The filter also serves as the SUMP PICKUP !
That was the WHOLE IDEA that FilterTek won the award for!!
They improved OIL PICKUP by redesigning the filter !
A new design is nice....Only question I would have "Did it solve the problem?"
The problem: Tranny Failure.
The pickup may be new, the "problems with the old pickup" solved, but, does the new filter have a lower tranny failure rate than the old?
I have seen new designs that solved a problem, but the problem it solved did not prevent failure.
For instance, some here have put a baffled oil pan on their engine. Solves the oil not being picked up in a curve problem. But they still lost a bearing....So while a baffled oil pan solves the problem, it didn't solve the real problem.
Not saying the new filter doesn't work as promised, just, does it reduce tranny failure? I mean in the real world, not in the lab. Was the oil filter the cause of tranny failure? Or is it something else in the tranny. Since the award was recent, I would rather see a track record on consumers cars than just an anlysis of the problem and voila! a new design filter fixes it, we promise.
FWIW, Ford can't get the dashboard to stick to the dash. Fluid dynamics is harder.
