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Re: What brand oil filters do you use?
[Re: justinp61]
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04/07/13 01:32 PM
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Been using Motorcraft for years, on everything I've owned.
1974 Dodge Dart Sport 340 4 Spd Endless Project
1999 Ram 1500 CC 5.2 5 speed
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Re: What brand oil filters do you use?
[Re: Abodysforever]
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04/09/13 01:24 PM
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I generally use hastings. Sometimes hard to find, worth buying 6 or 12 off the internet and keep my own stock. Fortunately three of my vehicles use the same filter. Here is a little write-up and link that I found interesting. Also hastings site has a lot of info about media, micron ratings, and more importantly in filter bypass. Some vehicles handle by-pass in the motor, some need a by-pass in the filter. http://www.efficient-mileage.com/oil-filters.htmlChoose an Oil Filter by brand Purolator, Mobil1, Motorcraft, Mann, and Amsoil. (and Supertech which is the Walmart brand if you're really on a tight budget) That's it. It's a short list. That makes it easy to remember. Purolator Pure One and K&N oil filters are decent. However the media seems dense enough to impede the passage of oil. Those filters are built well. MANN+HUMMEL & Bosch own Purolator as of 2006. Purolator was previously an ArvinMeritor product and considered to be one of the finest oil filters in the business. MANN+HUMMEL also make oil filters for the German car manufacturers, BMW, Audi, and Porsche. I'm impressed by the construction of the Mann filter. Bosch outsources their oil filters to Champion Labs. And the Bosch filters are awful. Hastings manufactures Amsoil, Baldwin, and Hastings oil filters. All good stuff. Champion Labs produces oil filters under a variety of names. Those include Fram, STP, SuperTech, Delphi, Bosch, Mobil1, K&N, AC Delco, and a few others too insignificant to mention. There's a lot of Good, Bad, and Ugly in there. Notes: amsoil specs a media not made by hastings (who may use outside manufacturers for their media as well?). **wix is not mentioned above and: NAPA Gold AND CarQuest Premium ARE the regular Wix. The lower series of NAPA are made by Wix, but are a little lower quality. I think it more important to chose a good filter you are cmfortable with and know the vehicle it is running. An occasional oil analysis might lead to extended change intervals, but should not be relied on. An poorly tuned older carbureted vehicle is going to need more frequent changes than a new efi or well tuned older vehicle. Diesel will always require short interval changes. 
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Re: What brand oil filters do you use?
[Re: srt]
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04/09/13 02:12 PM
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I generally use hastings. Sometimes hard to find, worth buying 6 or 12 off the internet and keep my own stock. Fortunately three of my vehicles use the same filter. Here is a little write-up and link that I found interesting. Also hastings site has a lot of info about media, micron ratings, and more importantly in filter bypass.
Some vehicles handle by-pass in the motor, some need a by-pass in the filter.
http://www.efficient-mileage.com/oil-filters.html
Choose an Oil Filter by brand
Purolator, Mobil1, Motorcraft, Mann, and Amsoil.
(and Supertech which is the Walmart brand if you're really on a tight budget)
That's it. It's a short list. That makes it easy to remember.
Purolator Pure One and K&N oil filters are decent. However the media seems dense enough to impede the passage of oil. Those filters are built well.
MANN+HUMMEL & Bosch own Purolator as of 2006. Purolator was previously an ArvinMeritor product and considered to be one of the finest oil filters in the business. MANN+HUMMEL also make oil filters for the German car manufacturers, BMW, Audi, and Porsche. I'm impressed by the construction of the Mann filter. Bosch outsources their oil filters to Champion Labs. And the Bosch filters are awful.
Hastings manufactures Amsoil, Baldwin, and Hastings oil filters. All good stuff.
Champion Labs produces oil filters under a variety of names. Those include Fram, STP, SuperTech, Delphi, Bosch, Mobil1, K&N, AC Delco, and a few others too insignificant to mention. There's a lot of Good, Bad, and Ugly in there.
Notes:
amsoil specs a media not made by hastings (who may use outside manufacturers for their media as well?).
**wix is not mentioned above and:
NAPA Gold AND CarQuest Premium ARE the regular Wix.
The lower series of NAPA are made by Wix, but are a little lower quality.
I think it more important to chose a good filter you are cmfortable with and know the vehicle it is running. An occasional oil analysis might lead to extended change intervals, but should not be relied on. An poorly tuned older carbureted vehicle is going to need more frequent changes than a new efi or well tuned older vehicle.
Diesel will always require short interval changes.
I was beginning to think I was the only one using Hastings, I knew they were a good filter because they are not the cheapest and sold by real hard core parts store. Not a retail type filter.
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Re: What brand oil filters do you use?
[Re: MikeyT]
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04/10/13 12:19 AM
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stp, cheap and made in USA
1966 Dart GT
...down to only 1 mopar for the first time in 15 years!
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Re: What brand oil filters do you use?
[Re: 440newport]
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04/10/13 12:44 AM
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Wix filters usually have 6 drain back holes. Napa Golds used to have 6 holes like the Wix too, but the last couple I bought have 8 holes which makes me think they may have changed suppliers?
I work for Napa,Wix still supplies all of our filters.If you can most places that carry wix have a farm sale snd you can buy them much cheaper.
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Re: What brand oil filters do you use?
[Re: moparcyco]
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04/10/13 03:31 PM
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I admit, I didn't read the previous posts. But, I am working on a new lubrication system for our hydroelectric plant and have come up with some things worth passing on: 1. You probably aren't going to see outright failures with any filter, the lubrication systems are pretty good. Especially if you are running an air filter, because road dirt is a real problem when ingested. So this means that any filter that doesn't blow up or leak is most likely going to seem okay. 2. If you want to improve your engine's oil filtration, you should be using a filter made with SYNTHETIC FIBERS. That's the key. Most $10 oil filters have synthetic fibers. But remember, as you weren't having any outright failures before, the new filters are not going to make any short-term difference. One may see a reduction of wear over the years. Recent research shows that particles, much smaller than the distance between bearing and journal, can and do cause wear. If one really wanted clean oil, then a "kidney loop" filtration system with a 5 micrometer (micron) absolute particle size would be the answer. Then one could run almost any oil filter and the oil would still be clean, cleaner than it is now. R.  People get all bent out of shape about oil and filters. I'm not going to bother reading any replies because it's sort of like religion. But synthetic fibers are the key, if you're interested in reality.
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