Filter Barn - Caution and Recommendation
This is a caution to others that are ordering, and a recommendation to Filter Barn to change their business practices. I ordered four filters, 2 each of FS1015 and FS1022, Fleetguard’s. These both ...
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On another board, Spike45 has decades of experience,having retired from Cummins. He has provided his input under the Cummins forum of IVR2, that almost all filters have Shelf Lives.
As noted, materials will break down. Resins, glues, paper, other - materials have different shelf lives.
These happen to be Fuel Filters. And when I called Fleetguard (two times, two different tech's), three years was what I was told on these fuel filters.
I've seen two different date codes formats, but others exists, all based upon how the manufacturer build spec's dictate:
1) yyddd - "08153" is year 2008, and the 153rd day of that year. You would add three years to that date, to determine Expiration Date.
2) yyddd xxxxxxx - "08153 ba12345" is the same year/date and build batch run number ba12345, which can be used to back track actual build heritage of the filter.
Some common sense has to come into this. If I were on the side of the road with a plastic sealed fuel filter with no signs of external rush and a date year of 4-5 years old. I would use it if my fuel filters were clogged from a bad batch of fuel. If they date year was 6, 7, 10 years old - I would not want to risk contamination of the fuel downstream from the filters.
I'll take sometime to stagger this, but I'll end up with:
-Installed, two years old
-Spare 1, one year old
-Spare 2, as close to new as possible
Then each year, each filter moves up in the pecking order.
Best to all,
Smitty
As noted, materials will break down. Resins, glues, paper, other - materials have different shelf lives.
These happen to be Fuel Filters. And when I called Fleetguard (two times, two different tech's), three years was what I was told on these fuel filters.
I've seen two different date codes formats, but others exists, all based upon how the manufacturer build spec's dictate:
1) yyddd - "08153" is year 2008, and the 153rd day of that year. You would add three years to that date, to determine Expiration Date.
2) yyddd xxxxxxx - "08153 ba12345" is the same year/date and build batch run number ba12345, which can be used to back track actual build heritage of the filter.
Some common sense has to come into this. If I were on the side of the road with a plastic sealed fuel filter with no signs of external rush and a date year of 4-5 years old. I would use it if my fuel filters were clogged from a bad batch of fuel. If they date year was 6, 7, 10 years old - I would not want to risk contamination of the fuel downstream from the filters.
I'll take sometime to stagger this, but I'll end up with:
-Installed, two years old
-Spare 1, one year old
-Spare 2, as close to new as possible
Then each year, each filter moves up in the pecking order.
Best to all,
Smitty
