<font color="blue"> I think a lot of the anti-Fram rhetoric is just that. As the creator of the posted oil filter rating website says, don't take his word for gospel. Taking engineering advice from someone who cuts open oil filters at home probably isn't wise.
Personally, I've used Fram filters for over twenty years. The only reason I wasn't able to get 150,000 miles on a vehicle was because I sold them. One car I had rang up 255,000 miles before I sold it to a neighbor, who drove it for a while then sold it to yet another person. </font>
Hey TruChaos,
I am so glad to hear from the one's that have gotten good service from Fram Oil Filters, as I used Frams for the first 50K miles in my Nissan, before I did some investigation of my own into the Fram's Ability to filter Oil.
I thought that I was in oil filter bliss, while I was consistently using Fram Oil Filters. Then Fram came out with the Double gaurd Filter and I thought that I was in Oil Filter Heaven. Then Fram came out with the Teflon Oil Filter that put Teflon into the oil System. I started asking questions and everybody that knew anything about engines, said that Teflon in the Oil is not good for the Engine. I couldn't understand, why Fram would put something into Oil that wasn't good for the engine. So I investigated even further, and my Nissan Parts Manager, told me that Nissan put out a bulletin a few years ago, warning customers not to use Fram Oil Filters. Then I investigated further and found that the actual filtering capacity of Fram oil Filters was at best around 40 microns and at worst about 80 microns, depending on the quality of filter that you decided to use.
The AC Delco filters have a micron rating of about 10 to 20 microns and so do the Wix, if I remember correctly as well as a couple of others that I looked at. My Nissan OEM Oil Filter has a 20 micron rating, and my Kawasaki OEM Oil Filter also has a 20 micron rating.
On the Motorbike, I remember the Oil Light coming on numerous times, indicating that there was not suficient oil pressure, while I was using a Fram Oil Filter. When I went back to using the Kawasaki OEM oil filters, that never occurred again. I'm almost possitive that the Fram Oil Filter was not retaining the oil in the filter and therefore, I was getting a lot of dry startups and and even on extreme hard breaking, the oil filter was not retaining the oil in the filter.
We could argue about this, until the Cows Decide to Come Back Home, and I hope that you continue to have good luck with Fram Filters, but I for one will only use Strictly OEM Oil Filters from now on, unless of course, I cannot get them or if someone proves to me that the OEM oil filters are indeed inferior. I tried to save some money with the crossover filters and trying to learn from my error, prefer now, to let the manufacturer be in error and not me. Oil Filtering capacity, Anti-DrainBack, and The Proper Oil Back Pressure are 3 things that I will from now on, leave those jobs to the Engine Manufacturer.
Again, I wish You & All, The Best of Luck, using the Fram Oil Filters.
Get your tractors Running &
Have a nice day,
Joe /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif