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What's the deal with these....anyone using them?
Snake oil?
They cannot hurt, and they are cheap.
I have a very strong magnet I put on the drain plug of my race bike.
It has definitely picked up picked up filings that otherwise could have been sucked into the oil pump and sent elsewhere to the engine.
Yes I'm using one. Let's just say if I didn't have one I wouldn't have KNOWN I had a real problem with my motor. I'd have ran it, and likely clarked it.
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They are very common in aerospace where the product is not so sensitive to costs, definitely not snake oil.
Joe
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Ducatis come with them.
I like the concept.
There is good voodoo where there is a ring of magnets on the oil filter body
I like magnet plugs always some fuzz on it
used to be popular on older cars, even stock on some, but with an all aluminum engine i'm not sure what they would do.
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All aluminum? Not quite. Lol
Plenty of steel in there.....except KTM it would seen. I think they make their cranks out of aluminum. :-/
My 05 SV650 comes with a stock one.
Better is super magnets taped on the oil filter
That is an excellent idea...not
The purpose of magnets on a drain plug is not to remove the ferrous metal from the oil but to provide a diagnostic tool.
If you pull the plug to change the oil and find ALOT of filings you know there is something wrong.
It is normal to have a layer of up to 1cm (less than 1/2 inch) depending on how often you change your oil.
If you hide these filings in the oil filter you will never know...until it is too late.
Last edited by gadget; 09-13-11 at 07:34 AM.
Sam
Pull apart an old hard drive and pull out the "rare earth" magnets and put one on each side of your oil filter. One will surely be enough, but two can't hurt. No HDD? Look up rare earth magnets online. They're cheap.
bearing material is non ferrous
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If you really cared you would cut open your oil filter and examine the element or send out the oil for analysis.
Me I would just like
Can't we all just get along
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