Defective oil filter.

[chris142]

Just wanted to share this. It's for a 15L caterpillar diesel. Napa gold made by wix in USA. Only about 3/4 of a thread to hold it onto the engine.

Napa brought out a replacement for it and it had the correct threads. Imagine if I had put that on without noticing! Thing would have blown off on the road somewhere.

I usually like wix.... Little worried now.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

I nave seen that, but I have seen two that didn't have any threads at all. Oddly enough, they were both for IDIs. The first was brought in by a customer for us to put on his new engine. I filled the filter and tried and tried but couldn't get it to screw on. I finally pulled it back off to look at it. We had to put one of our own on for him. After that, I got in the habit of opening the box before paying for a new filter and checking. The second one was a FL1995 from Wal-Mart. I took it to the register with me, along with the one that I bought, and told the cashier that it wasn't any good. She sit it aside, but I have no idea what happened to it after that.

 

[Jesus Freak]

I had a Purolator fuel filter with wonky threads a while back. I was a spinning and a spinning and it wouldn't grab, then I looked and the first thread was boogered. Maybe we should inspect our filters before we just go putting them on.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

Maybe we should inspect our filters before we just go putting them on.

No before we pay for them. I have absolutely no problem with opening a box to inspect the threads on a filter.

 

[Farmer Rock]

No before we pay for them. I have absolutely no problem with opening a box to inspect the threads on a filter.

Same here, although the parts guys get ticked off at me.


Rock

 

[Brian VT]

I've never looked. I will now.

 

[Jesus Freak]

I got a bunch of fuel filters from rockauto a while back. They were 1/4 the price of in the store.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

Same here, although the parts guys get ticked off at me.


Rock

I say let them!

 

[Big Bart]

I nave seen that, but I have seen two that didn't have any threads at all. Oddly enough, they were both for IDIs. The first was brought in by a customer for us to put on his new engine. I filled the filter and tried and tried but couldn't get it to screw on. I finally pulled it back off to look at it. We had to put one of our own on for him. After that, I got in the habit of opening the box before paying for a new filter and checking. The second one was a FL1995 from Wal-Mart. I took it to the register with me, along with the one that I bought, and told the cashier that it wasn't any good. She sit it aside, but I have no idea what happened to it after that.

Saw no threads once. (Not on a IDI.) Seen cross threaded once. Both were Motorcraft filters.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

It happens. They are mass produced so mistakes will happen.

 

[Big Bart]

Threads like this are why I say over and over on this site. Never assume a new or rebuilt part is working out of the box. It’s sad but so true. Many of us have bought and installed a new part that was bad out of the box. Making things worse is when we say rebuilt a engine or fuel system. Now you have to go back to lots of parts to see which one (Don’t assume just one.) or ones are bad.

 

[ISPKI]

Saw no threads once. (Not on a IDI.) Seen cross threaded once. Both were Motorcraft filters.

Picking up a new motorcraft oil filter for my truck today, guess i'll be checking the threads before I take it.

 

[snicklas]

Some one on here once said (Maybe Wes)

NEW = Never Ever Worked

Like many have said, just because it is new, doesn’t mean it’s good……. BTDT

 

[Old Goat]

Since the rise in everything we buy, and the shortages of things. The past year or so I have been picking up the FL-1995 filters at Wally World when I see them on the shelf.
Think I have a dozen of them, better check them all to see if all are good.
The price has not changed through all this, still $9.44 ea.

I have seen a couple weeks go by when the shelf`s are empty on these filters, always a ton of fram`s.

I use the Mann filters on my Mercedes Diesels. Never had a problem with them, but on one site I use to purchase parts from, they had a good price on the Heingst Filters, and bought 6.
The top 3/4 of it is metal with lots of small holes, and bottom 3" is pleated paper.
The holes didn`t get punched open, and had to use a pick to push them open...time consuming, but they worked ok.

We took a trip from Santa Cruz, Ca. to Salt Lake City, Ut., I changed the oil before the trip and used a Heingst Filter. When we got back home I changed the oil, The filter had the metal sides sucked in like it had been in a vacuum. I guess the oil was being filtered through the 3" by pass section at the bottom.
I changed the oil & installed the other Heingst filter I had, and drove the car a few miles, came home and pulled the filter out of the canister, and it too was sucked in.
Used Mann filters ever since w/o any problems.

Goat.

 

[ISPKI]

My local store (the owner is a good friend of mine) never stocked FRAM until earlier this year. He said they were acquired by another company and is no longer the same product. This is a carquest store that has always stocked carquest filters made by Wix or Mann. They have the PSD FL-1995 motorcraft filter for 15.50$ as of yesterday when I bought one. That is down from 19-21$ it had been for the last several years.