Quit using Fram after I dissected one that had been used for 5,000 miles...
Dissect a NAPA Gold after 10K of use, and you'd be impressed....
Both show a major difference in Quality after they have been used....
A NAPA Gold's media will still be in good shape at 10K, where as a Fram's media is falling apart at 3K....
Seafire,
which Fram did you dissect? Local store has three -four different "levels" with differing amounts of filter material..........if you can believe their packaging?
I used Fram for many years, mostly the mid to higher range filter.
Last few years I was using Bosche, but couldn't find them at Wally's when I went shopping this past week. When I send in my oil (Mobile 1) for testing it has been "normal" with 5-7000 miles per change on engines with over 200K miles.
Since no Bosche, this time I went with the K&N oil filters. I've used them for years as my air cleaner elements. Figured I'd give the oil filters a try too. I like the idea of the nut too.
No tractors here folks, pick up and passenger cars............Toyotas of course!
Where I worked until retirement last year it was Napa/Wix for the Cummins and Cat filters for the Cats. No oil related failures that I can recall on 28 motors, used for pumping water (+/- 5000 gpm ) , steady RPM/load , for the 7 or so years I worked there.
Geno
