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Preferred Oil Filter; As of late
Topic Started: Oct 3 2010, 10:55 AM (1,739 Views)
Ryan
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Nowadays, what is your favorite oil filter brand?

I just changed my oil this morning and used a Wix filter (been using Fram Extra Guard up until now). Recommended?
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superduty5.9
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Ryan Wix is a good filter. I was told to stay away from Fram for some reason and can't remember why. Baldwin, Purolator pure one, K&N, Mobile 1 are all good.
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Ryan
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I've heard from a few people that Fram isn't the best filter, but I still don't know why.
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Lil red metro


I'm using a Ford Motorcraft filter. Its much taller than the stock geo filter and still fits with the A/C compressor without touching it. If you don’t have A/C, then you can use a larger diameter filter. Johnny Mullet has the books to cross reference other filters.
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iamgeo
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Lil red metro
Oct 3 2010, 01:41 PM
I'm using a Ford Motorcraft filter. Its much taller than the stock geo filter and still fits with the A/C compressor without touching it. If you don’t have A/C, then you can use a larger diameter filter. Johnny Mullet has the books to cross reference other filters.

Which one are you using?
Edited by iamgeo, Oct 3 2010, 01:47 PM.
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Ryan
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Really, what are the advantages to using a larger filter? I've never heard of that until I joined this forum.
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iamgeo
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Just a tad bit more oil in the crankcase and more surface area to filter the oil.
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Memphis metro


Does fisher price make one?
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Ryan
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iamgeo
Oct 3 2010, 02:25 PM
Just a tad bit more oil in the crankcase and more surface area to filter the oil.
Doesn't seem like that much of an advantage -- unless I can get a cheaper filter.
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enginedoctorgeo
Oct 3 2010, 02:39 PM
Does fisher price make one?
Unfortunately, no. But, the engineers at Milton-Bradley said they'll contact me tomorrow with a price quote...

I told them I need the quote ASAP because life is short...
Edited by Ryan, Oct 3 2010, 06:12 PM.
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Johnny Mullet
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The larger filter allows you to have more oil in the system. This is especially nice if you have any leaks. I run Baldwin B2 on my non-AC setup. Wix is another good filter.

Fram, Motorcraft, STP, Purolator, Pennsoil, and a shitload of other names have cardboard check valves and poor filtration. Wix and Baldwin use better paper elements and steel check valves.
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Why you Mutt!

I use whatever happens to be on sale at the time. I have done this with all my cars...have never had any problem related to oil filters. This includes a Ford 302 engine I got with 134k miles, and junked at 410k miles, after the rest of the car wore out.
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Horn


yea I go with joebob......whatever is the cheapest. usually ends up being supertech. I've heard they are about junk but never had problems.
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Ryan
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Johnny Mullet
Oct 3 2010, 06:51 PM
Wix and Baldwin use better paper elements and steel check valves.
Where do you buy Baldwin?
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Potter
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Three words for ya..... ROYAL PURPLE BABY!!!!!!!!

Not just oil, they make filters that supposidly filter out more crap than WIX, and K&N. Their should be a national ranking on this stuff
I have used wix, k&n brfore... still do from time to time... ill keep on testing
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