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Originally Posted by LTRS777
That would make sense, in my mind, if the pumps were failing early on... how does debris from a block assembly lead to oil pump failure 40-50-60k miles down the road? How many times has the oil recycled the oil filter and engine? I would imagine that a literal physical blockage from debris would rear its head a lot sooner than YEARs and tens of thousands of miles on dozens of oil changes down the road (or well I change every 3-5k)...
I am just thinking out loud as I too am nervous about things like this and literally have my ultragauge scan speed, fuel, and similar so I can just leave the oil temp and pressure screen on and up in the middle of the dash lol. I would love to figure out a way to prevent or stop this, but if what above is true, why would installing a Melling or similar be any better? Are they debris-proof or something? If the debris build up can happen over such a long time period of multiple starts and running events, would it not just eventually make any unit fail (if that were the case)?
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Yea, this got me concerned & confused too...what's the real cause
I'm with you in thinking engine debris wouldn't take 10s of thousands of miles to cause the problem after multiple oil & filter changes? FWIW you may want to consider a magnetic drain plug. I put one of these in at my first oil change 5k miles.
http://goldplug.com/