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Re: oil filters

To: proudfa@navcanada.ca, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: oil filters
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:08:10 -0700
Yeah, I remember this came up earlier in another thread. I thought I'd 
change brands at my next oil change. Thanks for the reminder. I know 
where I can get Wix filters locally.

Cheers!
Max

Charley & Peggy Robinson had this to say:

> Max, you'd be doing yourself a favor if you'd quit using the PH8A. 
>It's not the best filter around.  That's why you can buy it for less
>than $3 at discount places.  The NAPA Gold is a high-end WIX filter that
>has a thicker, finer element, which is why it costs more.
>
>  CR
>
>Max Heim wrote:
>> 
>> What I did was snatch the unit that holds a spin-on filter facing up from
>> a later model at a wrecking yard. It has the oil filter fittings. I have
>> been using Fram filters, I think PH8A, curiously the same one as my 67
>> Barracuda V8!
>> 
>>
>> 
>> >
>> >
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> Runs great,
>> looks particularly bad since some SUV clown backed into it.
>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>> it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
>


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