Posted by Texasmark1 on March 07, 2015 at 15:30:24 from (162.72.24.91):
Recently the subject of oil filters came by here and it's on down the trail so I am opening this comment because I feel Fram is getting a bad rap. Possibly the reason may lie with the purchaser and their maintenance habits. Won't go into detail, but a product is only as good as the user/abuser.
Honeywell is the parent company for Fram and has been for many years. Do a Google search on that company and you will clearly see that they are BIG and have their fingers in a lot of high tech things. With that kind of pedigree one would seriously doubt that they would put up with junk in their portfolio.
What triggered this was I was servicing my 1963 Ford 2000 Diesel tractor today and realized that even though I only had 200 hrs. on the oil change it had been 2 calendar years.
I completed the servicing and decided to have another look at a Fram filter in diesel service for 2 years.
Here's what it looked like:
The filter is their low end available at WM. WWW spec says it gets 95% of the crud per the test listed on the page. Higher dollar, more sophisticated filters of theirs shown get more and the amount is listed.
That being the case the anti drain seal looks to be Neoprene rubber and upon closely examining it, was totally intact with no signs of wear, not silicon found in the higher dollar units. The end caps are paper with the filter material glued to the end caps, not metal slip over the end type like their higher priced filters and other popular filters have which I have dissected also but awhile ago. The material is paper, cellulose and tough cellulose at that.
With all that said, the filter media was totally intact and I had to rip it apart with considerable force to get it where you see it. If you look closely just above the media, where I tore it, there is some of the glue, still stuck to the end cap; no glue or paper failure here.
In this task I realized that metal end caps and silicon anti drain seal buy you nothing. The metal ring forming the center of the filter is firmly glued to the media which was very firm and did not move easily when pushed on. If you look at the small end of the anti drain back valve, and bracket that contains the pressure relief valve, you don't even need end caps per se as these two elements suspend and seal the steel tube to which the media is attached.
So, other than getting 4 to 4.9% increase in filtering improvement, I don't think I will continue to spend the extra bucks for their premium filters, nor worry about using Fram as compared to any other.
We all have our pets and currently I have no pet. I buy what is available "and feels good" at the time.
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