The Full Story of Oil Filters

I awoke at 4 after about 6 hours of sleep. Reviewing in mind what happened yesterday. All that smoke coming from that chimney, but also from somewhere else, earlier, all day. Everything in slow motion. Me not being able to remove that tensioner.  Routing back the new belt in hours. The guys pretending helping me. In fact that big guy (a tall sumo wrestler maybe) is parked right now next to my car.

I had several projects with the car. Belt and tensioner. Oil change. Two coolant hoses. Battery. First one has flopped but i got a new belt. Thinking that screw might have been overtighten by someone on purpose. Also one the screw in place at the new tensioner (the one that holds the pulley) was not torqued right, would have been in trouble if i put that one in.

I went in the trunk of the car for tools around 5 AM only to see again much traffic in the alley, people coming at the day care to drop or pick kids (apartment D5 accros the alley). I got all my tools, probably 100 items in one single (yellow) plastic bin so i was looking through those but... could not find the filter removal tool. The second one i got from Amazon that gets lost.

So far i was using 79 mm 15 flutes tools for OEM filters but all of those start skipping flutes at any serious torque. I can put a filter with one of those but usually cannot remove it. For that i bought an universal tool with self tightening jaws. They usually damage the filter upon removal so it is critical to take it out.

There are apparently two styles of filters that Amazon and Walmart sites say "confirm fit". They are different by outer diameter, number of flutes and position of the gasket. What matters most, about the same pressure for the relief by pass valve.

What made the last one i bought at Walmart (bought two Purolator ones of that style and they both came damaged from Amazon) special is it has the gasket of a larger diameter, possibly going over the damaged area of the mating surface at the engine, which makes any filter of the other style leak, no matter what brand.

So the other style with smaller diameter but larger gasket needs a different tool (74 mm, 14 flutes tool) which i just bought. I also found (at Home Depot) the 100% conventional mineral oil which does not leave was in the intake.

Not so sure right now when i take another look at that surface. The upper side in the picture seems damaged all the way to the outer diameter. So it looks like i will keep adding oil for a while until i find a solution.

Yes i know i can put some sand paper on a piece of wood and sand that away (i think it is aluminum) but i risk introducing tiny bits of corundum or what the sand paper is made of inside the engine, and that is after the filter. Maybe i could plug the whole area with a rag and then do it but i would not try it blindly as i change the filters right now. I would have to raise the car to be able so see what i'm doing.

Last picture was done by pressing shutter button in mandatory flash mode then laying immediately the phone on the ground under the filter hole in the panel. I could do it because in flash mode, it takes seconds until the first "warning and adjusting flash" fires.

So it looks like i will have to just add oil in that car for a while.

10:00 AM Enjoying Windows after a Reset PC done while i was at WinCo with Keep my file option. No more lag when typing or switching tabs. Flying browsing and uploading speed. Should do this more often. Save google and windows password. Start it when i go somewhere. Finish it when i get back.

Inconveniences. Had to sign into google again (and scramble for password, getting the code at the phone) which brought back my numerous bookmarks. Had to move icons in taskbar at the left again. Had to adjust system wide display (at 300%) and cursor size because this monitor is 4K.

Lost all the installed apps and expired trials which is good cause i don't use very often anyways and some of them i don't even recall installing, probably the source of slowing down bugs.

All downloaded files and documents were preserved with Keep my files option.

Feeling so good after one day of work outside (with all smoke on the hill or maybe because of it?).

3:45 PM Slept about 4 hours last night, about 5 hours at the car. The belt squeals when it's cold weather. I remember i once could replace the belt, when i replaced the alternator. Ok maybe not all the way. Back then i saw something at the tensioner and bought a new one. But the new one was the same. So i did not replaced it.

Now i bought a belt online and i had that tensioner and wanted to replace them both.

Trouble. I followed a video but the guy in the video had some pneumatic tool that shocks that T50 torx screw. What else can i say. It is stock in there. WD40 does not reach far enough. Could have some loctite on the thread. I broke two tools i just bought and nearly broke the screw, but it does not move.

So in the end i decided to just put the new belt in, to see what happens. Then i got two options. Buy and electric impact wrench. Go to a shop.

Trouble. There is very little space to work. The belt does a couple of S turns in there. I got a couple of tools, a long forceps and a little bamboo scratching hand with a screw perpendicular at one end. But you have to do it in a certain order.

And then the audience. They just move around, obviously with on other job but watch and taunt me.

By the time i figured what is the order i was so exhausted i could not stand next to the car. Total lack of exercise due to long inactivity due to the wound. Then when they figured, i wanted to go inside, they brought a helicopter, trying to suggest i left because of it. Since that did not work, they started a big fire up on the hill (south from here). I wanted to go back, but i think there is too much smoke. From time to time wind brings in poop smell.

BTW there was smoke when i started which smoke made me dizzy and everything slow motion, dropping tools (had to remove one wheel to retrieve one tool) etc.. Maybe that's why it took me so long and could not finish yet.

6:05 right before i came in an posted the above. A guy came with a German Shepard and peed right next to me. After i posted, i got hungry and tried to eat something. There was an open can with smoked fish that was very dry (not oily at all) and chocked with it.

Spent last half hour trying to vomit. I don't think i got rid of all of it but got better (no more pain at least). Went outside to finish the job. I put the belt last time in like 15 minutes but was not aligned right when the bolt head attached to the tensioner for the purpose of releasing tension got stripped.

Aluminum, 12 points, 17 mm, but is one mm less than 17 and the wrench was not grabbing it right. Now i was going to drill a hole in it so i can grab it with something to release tension to finish the job (align the belt). There is still smoke outside and the ice cream van is here, playing la cucaracha so i just got back inside.

In a way it's better in the dark cause i can see better with the flashlight in that narrow space, there is not so much contrast.

Ok i drank some tea and then some milk. Though it went down, i still feel like there's something in there. That kid that was yelling earlier like was slowly swallowed whole by a giant serpent started again to yell when that milk was making its way through my esophagus. I think it's got something to do with earlier, might have been a factor. He did that for about half hour before i came in.

There is still smoke coming out of that chimney.

8:00 When i started to drill that hole in that 12 points tensioner release bolt head (went easy, it is aluminum) a black car came next to mine. They when i started to pass a wire through that hole, about to pry it with a long stick, more people came and all started talking. They left when i was about done. It seemed to me like they came to pretend they helped me or even did it for me.

Once i pried the tensioner it was easy to first release the belt and then realigned it and apply tension again. It does not squeal anymore but it does a low rumbling noise which i believe is normal until it breaks in. The old belt had the surface hardened and shiny and was slipping. One day long and lots of lessons learned but smoke was a big factor. Smoke stopped not long before i went back inside and i do not feel that wasted aymore (because of it).

1:11 AM I wanted to take a break for at least one week from blogging. However tonight (i mean this morning) i saw another one close to 7 and went to look for correlations. And since i did it i thought it was worth a few clicks to do three screenshots to share.

It looks like i have discovered another factor. The tide did stay high for a while due to closeness but not overlapping of Sun and Moon tide. The pressure was moderately low, but the tides were at peak (near syzygy/ˈsizəjē/).

So i decided to quick start another blog named just like that. Earthquakes. With only earthquakes in it. Of course those next to oceans where there are recorded tides (there are also ground tides everywhere but that information is not publically available).

It took me a few clicks and a name (just to let you know how easy it is just with a gmail account), will take care later of the format, metatag for searches if i think i need it, and add a link here in upper right area of the main blog.

A blog free of politics and all the other issues fusses.

Ok a story from 100 years ago that fits the context. The earliest known scientific rainmaker. A contract that turned into a deluge (sorcerer apprentice?) Though it is not known what chemicals he used, it might have been silver iodide, which is currently used for seeding clouds, among others, like dry ice.

1:55 Ok i think i have a reason as why by example a raindance would work. The moves of the dancer or dancers could create low frequency waves that could tip the balance of a system and make the moisture in the air condensate.

BTW This morning i witnessed a very weird phenomenon. I said before the garbage truck is very heavy, 20 tons maybe. When it comes, it takes the dumpster that itself empty weighs hundreds of pounds maybe up to a ton with two horns, raises it above the truck and shakes it a few times. The size of the dumpster is big enough to create some shock waves that both shook the building and the ground and released some of the dust created yesterday by milling the redwood mulch with the mowers which then settled on buildings and walls.

2:05 Just to make things better, someone just slammed doors outside.

But the result of shaking the air was a gust of wind "sent by God" which raised dust and blew it it on me big time, exactly when i was going to the dumpster with a bag of poop i just picked. Minutes later the lady at 4 descended with an attitude of an Empress God and climbed into the black BMW.

The result was i was in pain all day and those who saw me at Walmart know. Tomorrow they will come again to pour asphalt in front of our building and then i get to drive after 2:30  and i cannot sleep because of the dust coming out of the yellow utility truck with the inscription SEATTLE EMPIRE parked again next to my car.

2:55 Since i started... The 16 year old suspect was walking on the street with a shotgun, entered the school, the bystander who happened to have a gun also entered, but he could not draw faster than the kid pumped his shotgun and fired multiple rounds before he was shot. Now the suspect is dead and the bystander is a hero. And i bet the kids they were shot where new in the area and nobody really knows them. All because the place is called Silver rai.

10:10 Dragoș Ciobotaru

10:40 Tot aurul din lume și din Italia, on demand (ilustrativ).

10:15 Now what did i write with 6 and has sine curves in it?

11:33 AM Predicting Earthquakes, building theories as a hobby with no funds or for a smile from a stranger while others mock me and thrive by loyalty to Empires? Yeah why not. Let's get some satisfaction from pissing them off.

But i lost the moment when the next two of magnitude 6 hit. However here are some interesting things that i could find. October has the lowest pressure average in Last Tablas, Panama (nearest place with records available for free on google). Tides had highest amplitude in the days when the 7.6 EQ hit at lowest pressure in daily cycle.

12:00 PM Nevermind, i believe my theory since 2016 started to go mainstream, silently, without credits.

5:10 PM

Habemus Desemnatus IV

10:30 PM Every time temperature drops under 60 this side the whole complex gets filled with smoke. I posted yesterday a picture that came weird, because of the Sun and what was in that smoke. I think they just lengthened that chimney and though one would think this is good for neighbors, it is not. Since they don't do it all the time, it takes a lot of time for that chimney to heat up and not cool the smoke that comes down instead of going up.

From what i know there must be hundreds of people affected, but usually when there is smoke like that nobody is in the alleys. All from the cozyness and fanciness of a few people in those houses. Another idea is they just put another gass cartridges in mole holes. Though the moles might run away, the probably bring new ones the next day.

Every time i go at the garbage to knot bags, something happens. This time they were black bags everywhere and i tried to overturn a few cause they are usually hidden open poop bags and one (white) bag was untied and garbage including a few liquid drops fell on my hand. I was too lazy to come back inside and wash my hands so i proceeded to the locker where i had some items.

But if i went back inside after searching through the garbage and then go to the locker, it would have locked like i picked something from there. There was a big empty brown bag next to the dumpster.

There was (again) an Asian guy hidden behind a car was reading his phone. I tried to use just my pinky which was not touch by what i thought it was a clear liquid coming from that bag.

I have to key in the code because my phone is never in the network or wi-fi and i make a picture from the computer in track the package screen where there is no bar code.

Last night we stopped and picked more items. One of them was another Purolator filter which was again damaged. The only way to make a dent like this is to hit it with a hammer. These filter have a by pass valve inside and if that one gets dealbated the engine may starve of oil and seize up causing an accident if that happens at high speed.

I take it it was retaliation because i once rejected and returned a filter like this because of my misunderstanding (thinking it was not compatible because of a bigger diameter for the gasket and it might damage the already damaged engine). Now i want it because i think the bigger diameter gasket may encompass the damaged area, and finally stopping the leak. I think someone has a batch of bad ones from somewhere and sell them intentionally on Amazon.

11:22 AM Președinte fără Prim Ministru și Guvern, asa cum sună?

3:12 PM Every time i open the door to go outside someone comes out from D5-D10 (in diagonal view across the alley). This time i went to put in a new cabin filter and there was chocking smoke coming from this direction. One picture taken earlier since i went to Walmart (to buy another AC/coil cleaner which i could not find cause it was not in automotive). Continuous mole devastation.

8:55 AM Poate ați auzit prin presă. Rezerva de gaz a României e atât sau atât. 70% la începutul iernii bla bla.

Unde sunt stocate aceste gaze, mai ales cele mai puțin compresibile ca metanul. Răspuns. În pământ. Înapoi în foste zăcăminte. Sunt roci poroase sau chiar caverne subterane de unde s-a extras gazul. Nu are unde să se ducă. Este pompat înapoi și scos la nevoie. Se reduce zăcământul la starea inițială de exploatare. 

Mai sunt acviferele. Depozite de apă subterane de mare adâncime (sute de metri) care au fost golite prin exploatare nerațională. Poate mai puțin în România dar cine mai știe acum ce fac. Dacă se duce un jurnalist pe acolo, primește plicul și gata. La fel cu Poliția și politicienii.

Dacă ar pompa intenționat cineva apă din Dunăre în depozitele acestea de gaze sau înapoi în acvifere (asta se numește managementul de acvifere, care la fel nu prea cred că există în România).

Chestia e că nici nu știm pe unde sunt. Da bine nu cred că pot exploda, fiindcă nu există aer (oxigen) pe acolo. Dar dacă au fost golite și a intrat nițel aer? Nu cred că s-a ajuns niciodată prin exploatare la presiune chiar zero.

9:09 Cold weather has come and the Hyundai tick has come at this car for the first time.

I knew about the problem. The blow by gas that is redirected (after 70s) into the intake manifold to reduce pollution contains drops of oil. It is directed there through the so called PCV valve and a rubber hose. But some fractions of the oil, the so call paraffins, solidify on the walls of the intake manifold. Especially in cold weather.

So they fix one problem by creating another one. Because sticking valve translates into a host of problems like misfires, vibration with poor driveability and loss of mpg.

When the engine heats up enough or the weather changes a bit  during colder seasons (like during this time, at noon or under Sun), some of the wax migrate on the valves and turns into varnish because of temperature and make them stick. Harder to open by the hydraulic lifters that get squished. Which makes the ticking sound.

For now, it disappears with RPM and engine temperature. At higher RPM, the oil pump pumps more oil and oil pressure is higher and the lifter can beat the stickiness. 

That is the reason i built a catch can. But have not seen wax in it except when i used synthetic oil which is more waxy. But now i use an oil which i am not sure what it is. It says motor oil and that's all. The fact it does not say synthetic does not guarantee it is not. Or could have changed the formula since since i had this problem until this year after they unexpectedly changed the price from 17 dollars to 25 for a 5 gallons jug.

The thing is. With great sacrifices (they start shows outside every time i get at the car) i stuck a borescope camera through the throttle inside the manifold and took pictures and it all came drops of orange stuff. Not at the closest cylinder next to throttle where the flow of air is faster but more in the back, at cylinder 1 and two where i hear the tick.

But while writing here an idea came to me and i think more and more about doing it. I will try and put some thermal insulation stuff around the composite manifold which will retain some of the heat of the engine and help melt the wax. I hope it will not help melt the composite (plastic mainly) material of the manifold itself LOL. I hope the melted wax will not create more problems on the valves in the short run.

Another thing crossed my mind. Big oil money and car making money may be involved in all these shows i see all around me because changing things and technologies to mitigate with this problem would cost too much and combustion engine are being phased out and this is what brings all kinda hells onto me and probably causing other things. The war in Iran, just to displace the word oil from the minds of people hearing what i keep saying.

Ok if you don't believe me do what i do. Rough noisy start at your car during colder days? Stick a a USB borescope camera which now are cheap, under 20 dollars through your throttle and look. Or simply a wooden stick with drop of cotton and swab it (but be careful not to introduce something no matter how small in there cause you might ruing your engine).

Right.

Here are phone screenshots with pictures from inside the manifold. Cause last time when i tried to transfer them onto the card, the just disappeared from the app's folder. How i know it is wax? Some came on the semi-rigid tube i stuck the camera through (to protect the camera from the oil there). In the past i found actual wax in the catch can even during summer, when i was using most expensive synthetic oils.

3:40 PM Right on.

Right (on).

11:11 PM They all retreated from outside and put a mole chaser cartridge in a gallery. I tried to stick on full can with foam for ac evaporator and heater core cleaner. At first lots of foam was coming out of it but went back inside and when i squeezed the can, just some liquid came out of it and fell through the hole and i did not clean nothing.

1:35 PM After the yellow utility truck shedding concrete dust parked here again, i parked my truck instead for the last couple of days. Today at 8:45 AM got an email from the management saying i should vacate the spot for F6 (upstairs, marked 54) or my truck is at risk to be towed starting that moment.

I noticed hours earlier, or after that email there was a car in my spot (F5, marked 55) and later i saw two guys in it. Is it possible that they just moved here and they were there all morning, waiting for me to remove the truck?

The interesting part is they did not make any noise upstairs, cause i would have known they are moving here today and removed the truck, without opening the email.

Then i found a Thursday spot and and then saw a visitor spot after a truck from the construction firm with a trailer that was parked sideways occupying 4 or 5 spots moved away and then i parked there and then i saw a guy who probably belonged with them looking pissed, he came next to were i parked but did not say nothing and then next to the apartment when i got back and probably saw i moved my truck from F6 to that one acting again pissed cause he did not understand why i left the F6 spot to move there.

And of course the two guys who stayed here all morning in my spot, or my new upstairs neighbors left and now they were two empty spots and the man looked puzzled as why i had to move mine in the spot he was counting for.

8:16 One thing i did not say because i did not believe it was important was when i tried to move the truck (the lot is on a slight grade) i first let it backwards by gravity, turned the wheel and the truck at about 45 degrees and when i released the clutch the "point of balance" or when the clutch engages was not as i was used to with this truck and it moved backwards a meter or two until i hit the brakes. Could have hit one of the white SUVs on the other side of the alley and that is the key to all story.

It happened with this truck in the past, when it lost the hydraulic fluid and i replaced the clutch (Steve the Korean) like three times, unnecessarily. Last clutch has only a few thousand miles (l@10) on it. This truck is actually an ISUZU Hombre, branded Chevrolet S10 (GM in collaboration with ISUZU) and it had since it was new an exhaust leak at the engine. Whatever. Need to add some brake fluid in it and purge it.

I actually wanted to look in the spot for leaks but here came that guy from the construction company and distracted me and now there is a car there (and nobody moved upstairs yet).

The two guys were waiting here since this morning (probably after that email) stayed until i moved were probably supposed to be the whatness. And yes i left in a hurry after i read the email and my hair looked like Einstein's when he was almost bald.

4:02 PM Have no choice but to write here. Yesterday it was so quiet all morning, it was eerie. They did the inspection at about 3:3o but only upstairs (their plan was randomly sampling 10% of the apartments). There was one single person and it was brief. Did not hear when they left only heard steps for about one minute. Soon after the smell re-started. I went at the dumpster and was really mad about.

When i am mad like that i cannot function in real time, my brain is frozen. All that i think of is find those bags, knot them and get the hell out of there. Continuously cursing in my mind those who left them and those who try to "catch me on the spot while doing it". But you all know that, i already confessed. Wrote it here that is. Cannot be a social being around the dumpster.

As i said last week i planned with Angela for this week to vacuum the apartment. Did not have time yesterday, i barely finished organizing at 2:30 but since it was all organized. i done it today, it was easy. However the vacuum cleaner broke half way through, (the belt jumped) and had to fix it.

Yesterday they gave us another notice. Will come and fix the speed bumps this week (yes the areas around those are really cracked because of the small earthquakes every time a multi-ton SUV hits them) but i thought it was Thursday. Today they started, real close to our locations. Trucks, excavators, pneumatic hammers, etc.. We also had the building surrounded with dust, like every Wednesday because the guys with the mowers ere  on the dry redwood mulch areas. Could it be related to what i just wrote.

8:08 After sleeping and building and putting in the oven a meatloaf, i went outside to smoke a cigarete, next to the car. A chubby ten years old started to do a show at the entrance accross the alley. I put out the cigarette and when i climbed the stairs, i saw an Asian guy who was masked by my truck, standing and watching.

I went in the back to finish the cigarette and saw 5 of them moving on the alley, disappearing behind the garages next to our entrance. The whole scene reminded me of...

10:00 About 15 minutes ago i went outside to check something at the car. Within one or two minutes after popping the hood, when i was staring at problem areas with a flashlight and thinking hard, like what parts i need to replace (and not spend too much money), the driver of the BMW with modifier exhaust from Apt.4 came but was standing next to the car and a woman was at the wheel (didn't see her coming).

They started the noisy car and she probably claiming ignorance or lack of experience floored the pedal and revved the engine in the high RPM area about 3 times making a noise that probably was heard from one mile away. The door was cracked open i think and i went inside and Angela started to yell at me thinking i have done something. I was searching for the phone to record but they left.

Earlier i was thinking. How come he sometimes (rarely) leaves whitin seconds ands some other times he keeps the engine at cold start RPM for minutes, even during hot summer days, probably keeping that RPM where the "sound system" is at resonance, with his foot on the pedal, on purpose, after the engine was actually hot enough for cold RPM to drop to normal.

I thought i saw a few days ago Prince Hisahito comming in and out that apartment, passing by me who i was at the car, looking the other way so i won't see his face.

Though this car was old, it had and still has too many problems and some of them seemed artificially created (like dog food in the cabin fan housing).-

I would write some more but i am afraid of what they're gonna do next.

When i left earlier outside (after reading of the Romanian news), i had an idea about posting this. "An old Romanian folk song" which reflects the current political situation in Romania, with a fourth Prime Minister nominated by the President in 6 months  (the other three did not pass the Parliament vote).

Which may have been also anticipated by the real time AI that created the scene with that progressive noise outside. But after reading the words (i never made a true connection or had the experience and suspicions i know have), i realized there are subliminal words of sexual nature embedded in the lyrics.

In fact, she sings with an accent which (i thought it was local) never allowed me to understand the following two words until i saw them written tonight (CC).

I was asking myself earlier if there are actually songs in any language and culture that do not contain at least some words with hidden meanings.

10:55 I went to check the voltage at the battery (with the plug in charger that has a digital voltmeter and it shows 12.4 volts after 8 hours of not driven (after a short drive). Should i replace it? It's got 4 years. BTW i forgot the keys under the car's window because i got scared by that noise. Good thing i went outside to check the voltage, otherwise would have lost the keys, cause Angela is driving the car in the morning. 

11:08 Ok i went outside with an actual digital voltmeter and it reads 12.38 (after 8 hours). BTW when i opened the door and stepped on 2 rungs (out of 7) down the stairs, two Asian guys dressed both in gray passed right in front comming out of the dark, kinda laughing, scaring the s...t out of me.

6:05 AM I awoke at 3 probably due to smell. I went outside and found nothing except some spots of fresh pee next to hydrant. WHen i reached near the battlezone, a heavy exhaust sound made me turn around. Don't want dust from that wall on me.

There was a big green garbage sack on top of the flipped lid of the dumpster and i thought i saw a color difference in a spot. I came and grabbed my fishing pole and fished onge green bag of about 2 pound of almost the same color knotted in a weird way. I threw it in the dumpster in a corner and i heard it reached bottom where snell can't escape. The dumpster is overfilled already and it is only Wednesday.