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Originally Posted by wsmeyer
I would advise getting more information before accusing anybody and pissing them off.
Did the collapsed oil filter cause the engine failure or did the engine failure cause the oil filter to collapse?
Personally I think the engine went and the metal destroyed the filter. That's only because I don't think that an engine in proper working order would be generating enough metal in the oil to cause such catastrophic failure in such a short time regardless of the condition of the filter.
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But the bypass should have been used which is in the filter; when the filter collapsed the bypass also went and thus you then had a lubrication failure. Could the suction generated cause a filter to collapse? Yes. I have seen where a fuel pump on a motorcycle collapsed the fuel tank.
That engine didn't die in that 20 mile trip, it had an issue before then. That 20 miles was just where the issue then became noticeable. What the OP also needs to find out, were any of the codes being cleared dealt with oil pressure. The oil pressure had to be low; no oil going through the filter and bypass destroyed it would have to impact the oil pressure reading.