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Hi,
“And I guess there is always a chance it may break/disintegrate and cause bigger problems ?”
That is one more reason that there is a screen on the oil pump inlet.
It’s purpose is to keep out any chunky clumps of very unusual things! Like silicone sealant, bits of valve cover gasket or a plastic oil bottle cap ring! If it can make it down a drain hole in the engine head.
I knew a person who did that, but has just passed way of lung cancer.
He called me to ask about what to do.
It never caused an issue in his Toyota.
I think he had the valve cover serviced during a normal service.
He did that a lot later and they retrieved it upon request!
So, he knows they actually did the service procedure!
(:) I wouldn’t have remembered the color of it, but he was a little bit OCD and was $300 lighter in his wallet!
Some might even call all that anal? (:-)
Oil sludge or carbon accumulation comes from cold corners, especially, if a faulty routine of oil changes are followed by a high detergent engine flush!
That hose is best left in its little corner above the turbulence.
Carbon particles can often pass into the pump and get crushed up anyways.
The pump is a positive displacement pump, mostly “Meaning” it has voids or gears in mesh to squeeze things.
Here is why the spin-on strainer is for all that stuff above.
What could worry a person though is the full-flow feature that engages just above idle somewhere?
This is done because the pump puts out so much more flow @upper rpms that all of it cannot possibly make it through the spin-on.
I think I read that only up to 15% is getting filtered with each go round.
The go-arounds are quite frequent though, so I imagine, it’s made up for over time!
If you study the specifications on oil filters you have to pay attention to the < > signs and the S.A.E. Test variations of microns “strained.”
I think you should leave it alone too!
Besides, from what others are saying, it must be above the oil and up in vapors only, behind some baffles.
I vote with the others that you should leave it alone too!
Phil
unless some one throws in a special detergent to do an engine flush is one thing
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