Reply to "Oops I'm doing it again....I lost my head..."

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Jerry,

I am well aware of the filter issues with Fram. I believe however that as Jack DeRyke wrote, Fram was trying to cut costs and send manufacturing out of country, only to start experiencing problems, then brought works back to the US and the filter you see is a result of that. (Orange filter with black band)

Now, it could be a simple case of polish a turd, repaint a turd, same turd.....

This filter just happened to be one that I had on my shelf and will be a throw-away after I break in the engine. It only needs to work for as long as it takes to fire up the engine, wash all the moly lube off of stuff (which will tend to clog up the filter element....) take the sharp edges off of cast iron bits and pieces...and then it will be replaced with either the NAPA version or a Motorcraft filter, which is what I use as a norm on all the rest of our vehicles!

Thanks for the input! Always good to hear about sub-performing components!!!
Steve

8/1/1010:12 AM

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