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Luckily I never had that happen. As far as Fram filters go they are as
cheap as you can get. Motorcraft, AC, Wix or even most cheap brands are
better. I know you are probably thinking I am crazy or stupid. I sell auto
parts, have for 16 years. At the parts store I used to work at we sold Fram,
AC, Motorcraft and white box cheap filters. Neither of those lines had good
coverage for big trucks, so we took on Wix. I wouldn't have believed it if I
hadn't seen it with my own eyes. The Wix Rep came in my store with a pipe
cutter. Took a PH8A Fram and all the equivalent filters in all the brands we
had and cut the open in front of me. The Fram looked like a 5 year old cut it
out of card board. The others had metal end caps on the filter not on the
Fram. The others had a spring in them to prevent blow by the Fram had a
cheesy bent piece of metal to do so. Were the filter material was joined some
of them had glue and a metal band holding it the Fram only had glue. Needless
to say I DO NOT use Fram any longer. Just my 2 cents.
Frank Bartus
West Palm Beach, FL
73 Mach1 Cobra Jet
86 Fiero SE V6

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Mail From: A 64 'n' a Half (email redacted)

Actually, there was an article on the net a few months back that basically
said Fram was the least efficient oil filter that you could buy. I'll look
it up this evening and post the link. Unless, of course, someone else has it
handy.

Ken


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>Reply-To: (email redacted)
>To: (email redacted)
>Subject: Re: [CM] Oily Story and Filter caparison
>Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:24:23 EDT
>
> Luckily I never had that happen. As far as Fram filters go they are as
>cheap as you can get. Motorcraft, AC, Wix or even most cheap brands are
>better. I know you are probably thinking I am crazy or stupid. I sell auto
>parts, have for 16 years. At the parts store I used to work at we sold
>Fram,
>AC, Motorcraft and white box cheap filters. Neither of those lines had good
>coverage for big trucks, so we took on Wix. I wouldn't have believed it if
>I
>hadn't seen it with my own eyes. The Wix Rep came in my store with a pipe
>cutter. Took a PH8A Fram and all the equivalent filters in all the brands
>we
>had and cut the open in front of me. The Fram looked like a 5 year old cut
>it
>out of card board. The others had metal end caps on the filter not on the
>Fram. The others had a spring in them to prevent blow by the Fram had a
>cheesy bent piece of metal to do so. Were the filter material was joined
>some
>of them had glue and a metal band holding it the Fram only had glue.
>Needless
>to say I DO NOT use Fram any longer. Just my 2 cents.
> Frank Bartus
> West Palm Beach, FL
> 73 Mach1 Cobra Jet
> 86 Fiero SE V6
>
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In a message dated 09/18/2000 12:12:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
(email redacted) writes:

<< Actually, there was an article on the net a few months back that basically
said Fram was the least efficient oil filter that you could buy. I'll look
it up this evening and post the link. Unless, of course, someone else has it
handy.

Ken
>>

This is it.
minimopar.simplenet.com/oilfilterstudy.html

Paul Bradway
70 Mustang
72 LTD convertible