http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/minimopar/oilfilterstudy.html
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From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 2:58 PM
To: Victor Laury; datsunmike; Datsun Roadster List
Subject: Re: Fram Oil Filters
Victor,
Do you still have the link to that study or has it been taken down?
Fram WAS a good name in the 60's but now I use AutoZones house brand, Duech
I think, which I though ranked high in that test.
Paul
OROC
-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Laury <vlaury@earthlink.net>
To: datsunmike <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>; Datsun Roadster List
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, August 11, 2001 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Fram Oil Filters
>>Be forwarned, Fram filters are CRAP!!!!!!
>
>>Ironically, that was the last Fram filter I had and would ever use, the
>rest are AC Delcos. Penske filters are also Frams.
>
>I was forewarned. The list was forewarned. The oil filter study, that was a
>topic last year (and the year before), did not fall on deaf ears. I
switched
>to WIX filters and stayed there.
>
>Not only does Fram have a very high case failure rate but It's elements
>collapse and disintegrate inside the filter AND the Anti-Backflow device is
>a P.O.S.
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