Has anyone out there seen or had experience with Hard Driver Oil Filters?
Supposed to have a synthetic fiber wadding inside which has superior
filtering qualities to paper filters. I used about 5 of them in a row. They
seem Ok but I never cut one apart.
Bob King
Pennsville, NJ
-----Original Message-----
From: NVMYDakota@aol.com <NVMYDakota@aol.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: Blackstone Lab Oil Report
>In a message dated 1/5/00 11:46:46 AM Mountain Standard Time,
>grndak4x4@home.com writes:
>
>> Another thing to point out: I have used Fram's PH16(the oil filter that
is
>> "supposed to be very poor") oil filter and Castrol 10W30 since I bought
the
>> truck with 13,500 miles on it. I have never added any products like
>Prolong,
>> Slick50, Duralube, etc.
>> Kyle
>> 93 Dakota 4x4 V6
>
>DAH FRAM FILTER?????????????????
>
> What's the hell is wrong with you, have you ever looked inside one of
>those things, the filter paper (how little there is) is glue to a piece of
>cardboard!!!!!!!!! that's it, get a Quality Napa Filter, even the Siilver
(pN
>21085) is higher quality than that, Fram Blow By valve if the filter gets
>clogged is the cardboard, it''ll break through it. The Napa part has got
>METAL adn tons more filtering material, and the Gold filter (pN 1085) cost
>the same as any fram I have ever seen.
> Sorry, I used fram too, untill I worked at napa, now that i work there,
>and taht I have seen the inside of one, I use Napa Filters, the only other
>filter that compared with ours was the K&N filter, the others we tested
>(Fram, Castrol, Mobil 1, Wally World brand) was very little filtering
>material, and were poorly constructed. One (Mobil 1 filter I belive) even
>had a hole in the filtering material, allowing unfilter oil to pass
>through!!!!!
> So I want everone to go out there an Buy Napa Filters, adn no it is not
>for my own good, no one on this list buys at my store because no one is
from
>Los Alamos. Anyways, the test involved a hacksaw, adna Rich Customer who
>wanted to see the difference. He bought 5 of the saem filters (different
>brands) adn had us cut em open, now we use that with any customer that buy
>oil filters...
> Greg sorry I babbled so much
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