Stilko toilet paper oil filter

[RichP]

I remember a flat pancake oil filter that was designed for race cars, never seen one on a race car so I guess they did not work out too well.

 

[bobstad]

I have been using a STILKO on my '91 Ford Festiva the past 70,000 miles I bought from an old codger trying to sell a '67 Checker Marathon station wagon he'd installed a new motor and transmission in as well as a complete AMSOIL oil filtration system despite the fact the body was badly rusted out.

This was in '98 or '99 and he gave me the STILKO that used to be on his Checker for $5 I thought I'd make into a hookah.

When I got my Festiva with 85,000 miles June of '99 though I managed to get in touch with Neil R. Wagenaar who has had a STILKO on his car since 1961 and has never changed the oil, who sells both STILKO and FRANZ toilet paper oil filtration systems, who sold me the necessary adapter to replace the one for the Chevy motor in the Checker so I can use the STILKO on my Festiva.

Since then I've also bought a pair of spare o-rings of both sizes used on the STILKO mainly so I'd have an extra one by my toilet to know when the roll was down to the correct size to fit into the STILKO.

Neil's mailing address is:

176 Cypress St.
Chula Vista, CA 91910

Whose home phone # is 619/442-7060

 

[garr]

quoted from their site: "Oil does not wear out or break down."

wtf? of course oil breaks down.......

30 Years ago when I was in HS school (Aviation HS) it was taught that oil did not wear out it just got dirty, then When I was in the Aviation industry (I have my A&P) everyone I spoke to said the same thing, Oil got dirty it did not wear out.
One old retired Navy Chief I worked with at the time told me during WW2 the Navy used to run their dirty oil through big centrifuges to filter out the crap & then they would Re-Use it!
He felt that the throwing out of used oil & the use of disposable oil filters was pushed on the auto & aviation industries by the oil company’s To Make more money!

I am not saying he was 100% correct, But I'll bet there is some truth to it !

 

[joe_peters]

30 Years ago when I was in HS school (Aviation HS) it was taught that oil did not wear out it just got dirty, then When I was in the Aviation industry (I have my A&P) everyone I spoke to said the same thing, Oil got dirty it did not wear out.
One old retired Navy Chief I worked with at the time told me during WW2 the Navy used to run their dirty oil through big centrifuges to filter out the crap & then they would Re-Use it!
He felt that the throwing out of used oil & the use of disposable oil filters was pushed on the auto & aviation industries by the oil company’s To Make more money!

I am not saying he was 100% correct, But I'll bet there is some truth to it !

I don't know the science involved, and I don't know if it is still in use, but C-TRAN in Vancouver, WA used a system to clean engine oil for re-use in their fleet of buses.

 

[88 Wagonman]

I've run toilet paper oil filters for almost 40 years. I have one on my jeep. The oil doesn't break down because what breaks down oil is water combining with the sulphur in the oil and carbon.

So if water causes the oil to beak down, and when using a roll of ass wipe for an oil filter there is ZERO breakdown of the oil, then a roll of TP magically removes ALL water? BS.

 

[5-90]

The base oil proper doesn't "wear out" or "break down" - what happens is that it gets crapped up (as mentioned,) collects water (especially if you don't get the oil good and hot,) and the additives break down and wear out. Oops.

Re-refined oil (I miss that stuff...) is used engine oil that is filtered, then run through a short version of a cracking tower to blow off the water and additive package, and break it down into its constitutent fractions. Then, fractions are tapped off (usually the 10-vis transmission fliud base oil, the engine oil fractions, and the gear oil fractions. Sometimes you get some grease as well...) and the additives are added.

Stuff used to cost about a third as much as "new" engine oil. You'd think, with all the interest in recycling, they'd have the stuff on the market again...

 

[cashless]

the re-refined is still here...they just dont tell you that it is...why all the free oil collecting at the parts store..

 

[5-90]

the re-refined is still here...they just dont tell you that it is...why all the free oil collecting at the parts store..

So howcumzit we can't find it anywhere anymore?

 

[Slip Kid]

wow, TP oil filters..... My father says a roll minus the cardboard will work in his MB.

 

[winterbeater]

Would it hurt to use toilet paper with skin conditioner? Sorry, I meant your car not your ass.

 

[agent98]

Whatever happened to those flat oval shaped ones froma few years ago. They were supposed to be the cats ass for filtering, think they were like $150 but the filter was cleanable....

Oberg or something like that. Popular with air cooled VW people.