From personal experience, I had a Fram PH8A literally blow-up on my old
Camaro. The oiling system ran at 80psi (normal), had just completed an oil
change (I was running Redline 20w50 in that engine), and were getting ready
for a drive around the block. We made it about a 1/4 mile and heard a VERY
loud bang. I pulled over immediately, shut her down, looked around the
car, and found a big puddle of oil with orange shrapnel mixed in. I pulled
off the hood and looked at the (now missing) oil filter. I'll never use
them again. (This happened 6 years ago.)
They may have fixed their design since then, it may have been a bad filter,
but i'm not going to take that chance again. I haven't gone wrong with WIX
since.
$0.02
- Bernd
At 01:18 PM 09/22/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>Check the URL for the oil filter study closely... Mopar does NOT make
>filters.. they just repackage WIX or Fram filters.. and the author of that
>site had a Fram fail on him, clogging the oil passages in his engine's head
>after the filter media disintegrated... I think that's what prompted him to
>do the study.
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