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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
Reminds me of the article in Mechanics Illustrated (long ago memory could be wrong) where the car owner used a roll of toilet paper for a filter and never changed his oil.
Article was in the early 1970s.
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I had one of those. The toilet paper was inserted into a heavy aluminum canister that had a threaded fitting. It seemed a good idea, with toilet paper being much cheaper than a new oil filter. It seemed to work OK, but it was much messier to change than an ordinary oil filter. Also you had to unwind some of the toilet paper from the roll to get it to be the right diameter to fit in the canister. Using it eventually became more trouble than it was worth.
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If you are trying to save 40 quarts in 100k miles by not changing your oil then I guess when you change your engine you will learn a valuable lesson. To me it's cheap insurance.
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I couldn't agree more.
