advance auto parts always has deals that include the mobil filter so I always buy the better oil and filter, anytime im in there and its on sale i buy it. even if i dont need it why not keep em in stock if you can get em on sale... Sean
Every time I buy oil at autozone I end up with an stp filter and I never bother to use them. I can't really just return it as that is return fraud and I don't want to use it... I suppose I can call it my emergency filter
I use wix oil filters and heve for many years. Interesting note - I was at the local canadian tire store in windsor, and there was a letter posted/taped to the back of a display next to the computer in the parts area that stated, in so many words, that "the use of a fram oil filter does not void the warranty on your automobile". wonder why...
As a maniger at a Napa store, Just to let you guys know that, Napa gold filters are all made by Wix filter Co. Infact , they are the highest grade of filter that Wix makes. Hence the name gold. I have used lots of filters on lots of cars, including the Hastings, and Fram. Liked the Wix and ac the best for filtration, Hasings has a little better flow rate than the Gold, but about the same as the napa select line. I did use fram on my daily driver for almost a year because of the grippy end,"i don't care for filter wrenches". But saw that the oil would tend to get dirty faster than the wix. So started buying golds buy the case from work, and taping them off and spraying them with truck bed coating. All good again. Tom B. Killdeer ND
I always change the oil and filter at the end of the season. I have always used fram filters. When taking the '57 Belair out of the garage to cleanup, I noticed that I had low oil pressure at idle (30 psi) at startup. This has a high pressure, high volume oil pump on it (396 BBC). It typically has about 80 psi until the engine gets warmed up. Anyway back to the low oil pressure. 30 at startup. When I would rev the engine it would fall off to 10. I checked everything, pulled the distributor, used a prime rod that I made for my drill that directly spins the input shaft on the oil pump. Plenty of pressure that way, but when the car was running, 30 and 10. After 3 days of tinkering, my buddy suggested getting rid of the fram and putting a high quality filter on it (K & N). Oil pressure was back to normal. Needless to say the GS got a new filter before startup as well. Moral of the story..... I will never! never! never! never! never! purchase another Fram filter.
I personally use Purolator/Pure One on my daily driver and a K&N on my 455. One thing i noticed on the K&N vs Purolator, STP, and Frame is the K&N is darn near twice as long w/ extra capacity. I bought a box full last fall when Advance Auto Parts had my particular K&N filter on sale for $1.95 a filter :eek2:
I have a 300 inch v8 in my 65. I am running the turbov6 oil pump spring in the pump body and get 70 psi cold ,30psi hot at idle with 10w30 oil. Iused a fram on it once. NEVER again! Fresh oil change and on fire up, the case seperated. Blew oil all over the driveway. I took it back to,yup, you guessed it, schmucks. Guy at the counter said,"must have been defective". YA THINK?????
Yes, you would think a tool like that would be $20o No: I suppose it is a lot better than a hacksaw though
Well its aviation. In a world of $20,000.00 brakes, $250,000.00 black boxes, $1,000,000.00 blade sets and $55,000,000.00 aircraft 100.00 don't seem like much course we don't have pistons engines either. Hacksaw will fill the inner part with paint and metal filings and contaminate the very filter you are looking at for contamination. You can buy oil filter cutters for 30.00 at JEGS though which is where I bought mine.:laugh:
I suppose that is what appeals to me so much about aviation, replacing parts that cost more than my total net worth yet not having to pay a dime of my own to do so. I would imagine high performance engine builders get the same rush:laugh: I just think its funny that even the design of tools not related directly to the maintenance of an airworthy product or part have 3 times the premium of an automotive equivalent.
I use the Delco for the 455. Everything else I get a purolator...seem to be a good filter and the price is pretty nice.
