Filters that are not what they seem
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"SPURIOUSER and spuriouser," Pretty Polly might have said if Lewis Carroll had written Perkins in Plunder/and, a moral tale in which nothing was what it seemed to be. It would have recounted Perkins Engines' war on phoney filters, some of which have been passed off as having been made at Peterborough.
Operators who, knowingly or unwittingly, have bought spurious oil filters have found that they have emptied when the engine was not in use, so that air was drawn into the lubrication system and fed to the bearings instead of oil. The central core of some oil filters has also been contaminated by metal particles which would have been drawn straight into the engine, making a swarfu I mess of it.
So remember Carroll's warning: Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
"The jaws that bite, the claws that catch . . ."
Plunderland is inhabited by Jabberwocks waiting to ensnare the unwary.