Oil and filter threads get people rilled up! First. Yes you can buy a motorcraft filter. But if you think that filter is what the truck came with your wrong.
Those filters are made by the lowest bidder. Lately that has been Purolater. Purolater has had many problems with the media tearing in the last 10 years or so.
Fram. Everyone picks on Fram. There is nothing wrong with the cardboard ends. Nothing! Also Fram uses better paper in their cheaper filters than most others use in their higher priced filters.
Wix is good. Never seen one fail.
Stp,mobil-1,K&n are made by champion labs. These are good filters. .... Lately they have been sourcing them from China. I hate to say it but the Chinese built ones I have cut up look to be well made. Used oil analysis shows them to work well.
In reality the oil filter is not that important. Volkswagon and the Japanese dirtbike/atv manufacturers proved that decades ago.
Once broken in there are very few contaminants in an engine. My case tractor has a bypass filter only and it's been running in a dirty/dusty environment for 65 years!
All filter companies make a dud occasionally. It happens when you make millions a day.
The air filter is much more important than the oil filter. Paper air filters are the best. Stay away from the oiled gauze air filters as those pass too much dust. That dust is more harmful than anything.
So don't dwell much on the oil filters. I wont curantly use purolater build ones due to them tearing even though a tear really won't hurt anything I still prefer no holes. Never seen a Fram tear.
Those filters are made by the lowest bidder. Lately that has been Purolater. Purolater has had many problems with the media tearing in the last 10 years or so.
Fram. Everyone picks on Fram. There is nothing wrong with the cardboard ends. Nothing! Also Fram uses better paper in their cheaper filters than most others use in their higher priced filters.
Wix is good. Never seen one fail.
Stp,mobil-1,K&n are made by champion labs. These are good filters. .... Lately they have been sourcing them from China. I hate to say it but the Chinese built ones I have cut up look to be well made. Used oil analysis shows them to work well.
In reality the oil filter is not that important. Volkswagon and the Japanese dirtbike/atv manufacturers proved that decades ago.
Once broken in there are very few contaminants in an engine. My case tractor has a bypass filter only and it's been running in a dirty/dusty environment for 65 years!
All filter companies make a dud occasionally. It happens when you make millions a day.
The air filter is much more important than the oil filter. Paper air filters are the best. Stay away from the oiled gauze air filters as those pass too much dust. That dust is more harmful than anything.
So don't dwell much on the oil filters. I wont curantly use purolater build ones due to them tearing even though a tear really won't hurt anything I still prefer no holes. Never seen a Fram tear.
