Oil filter brand comparision

[Willie Two]

Anyone have an opinion on using a NAPA oil filter ( premium quality ) verses a wix filter of premium quality. Napa almost wants to say they are the same but what does the forum Gods say ???? I am running 1,000,000 mile Rotella and alway been happy with that along with a wix filter. Today was oil change day and I could not get a wix so I went to napa

 

[towtruckdave]

OMG! Now you have gone and done it!

 

[dmaxjoe]

Napa Gold filters are made by Wix. They are the same filter different label.

 

[BigRigTech]

Pretty much anything but Fram and you should be ok...

 

[Diesel JD]

Yeah the Frams have a bad rep here. Napa and Wix are made at the same place, Carquest too. I typically used Napa premium or Motorcraft FL1995 but have used K&N and Mobil 1. I now use an amsoil filter only because I bought a bunch of oil to go synthetic on my truck and the PSD amsoil filter wasn't much more than a stock PSD filter.

 

[freebird01]

napa and carquest both a wix filters...thats all i run anymore...i used to run the purolators from autozone with good results

 

[Willie Two]

Thanks to everyone, Filter & Oil the best maintenance item you can do for a motor !!!!!

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

Keep in mind that just because a product ( filter -- in our case ) is manufactured by a particular company, does not necessarily mean that it is manufactured to the same standards; it could be better or it may be not as good.

The only real way to know is to acquire samples of all filters in question, cut the metal housings away, and disect the internals.


Myself, I prefer genuine FleetGuard filters, with Baldwin being my second choice and Donaldson the third, then WIX.


http://www.fleetguardfilters.net/

http://www.baldwinfilters.com/

http://www.donaldson.com/en/index.html


I buy all my filters from this guy and save a ton of money :


http://www.filterbarn.com/

 

[gatorman21218]

Yall have walmarts up there? Mine down here sells the FL-1995 Motocraft PSD filter for 10 bucks. yes it fits on a idi and holds an extra quart of oil. I think it has a finer micron rating though dont hold me to that. cant go wrong with OEM. (well you can with the gauges

 

[Cincinnati Guy]

I always been running a PDS filter on mine, its FL1995, a lot of us are running that, its motorcraft brand also. You are able to run an extra quart with it.

 

[icanfixall]

The Motorcraft 1995 does have a finer micron filter medis. Ford did that because of the turbos on the then new powerstrokes. Thats all I use on my rig. Someday I may try something else but for now it works for me....

 

[dave186]

I have been thinking of trying the Wix 1734XE. High efficiency version with a 10 micron rating instead of 25. Its $46 at napa though.

 

[WrickM]

Just something to keep in mind. . . We all want the best cleanest oil for our rigs, but there is a reason some filters "only" go to 25 micron. If you use that nice 10 micron filter and your rig is on that like to turn the oil black in just a few hundred miles you could easily clog that filter. Then the bypass will open and you will be running unfiltered (basically) until your next oil change. This is especially true for us sad NA folks who have slightly less complete combustion and therefor higher chance of having crap in our oil. Again, just something to keep in mind when determining what micron rating you want on your flow through oil filter.

 

[dave186]

These filters have no bypass in them. another thing to look at is the beta rating, if your into that sorta stuff. I have ran some of the XE filters on Cat truck engines with good results, and those filters were 5 micron.

 

[WrickM]

These filters have no bypass in them. another thing to look at is the beta rating, if your into that sorta stuff. I have ran some of the XE filters on Cat truck engines with good results, and those filters were 5 micron.

there is a bypass in the filter neck, not in the filter.