💧 Enhance Water Filtration with Pentek 158116 Slim Line Housing Review

I had a standard opaque filter housing with a ribbed top. It started leaking so I put in a new o-ring. No help. I then lubricated the O-ring with silicone grease. No help. My friend said there must be some left somewhere in the housing, so I bought a new filter housing. I measured the holes on each end of the leaky housing and they are 1/2" wide so I figured I needed a 1/2" filter housing. Not right. The screw hole in the cap of this 1/4" filter housing is 1/2" wide. I'm not a plumber or this…

My RO/Respirator unit is installed outside the home. I didn't think a hard freeze was bad, but it was actually cold enough to destroy two cases on the device. I bought them as a replacement. I was hoping the canister would just screw onto the existing lids. During screwing in, the depth of the screw varied and it leaked horribly, so I had to deal with the problem of installing new caps. Once everything was reassembled it worked great. All old fittings are screwed directly into the new housing…

Pentek should be ashamed that they sell so many of these defective filter housings. We tested several of these and found that the lid was concave in both the o-ring area and the inner seal area for the filter media. Fluid enters the housing and immediately exits, bypassing the filter media. If you want to check if your filter housing is broken, place the cap (housing cap) on a flat table and shine a flashlight under it at your eyes and slowly rotate it. If you see more light in one section than