oil filters

[twopass]

Has anyone ever had a new bad oil filter ?
I rebuilt one of my b3 engines and all was fine for 3 days ,then on the forth day my oil light came on .I was going nuts changed the sender still had oil light ,
installed a gauge still had low pressure ,last resort changed oil filter bang I got oil pressure. I will not ever buy stp brand filter again.

[Team Lightning]

I've never had any issues with STP filters. I did have trouble with a store brand back in the 70's . Swapped it out,problem solved.

[Occhty]

I always get a Rocker tic with the fram filters on theses 1.3L

[blkfordsedan]

Did you cut the old filter open to see what happened? How did the old oil look? Any damage done to the engine?

[gergorian]

Could be that the flowback ( or bypass can't remember the name) valve inside the filter could have gone bad. Although it is weird that it would fail that fast.

[Chobobulous]

cardboard ends.....

[gergorian]

cardboard ends.....

That's what I was thinking.

I do use Fram Tough Guard, and haven't had any issues with them as long as I have been using them.

[navdoc101]

I always use K&N, a little more expensive, but you gotta pay for quality.

[htchbck]

Been running STP for years on my festivas, and other cars as well. No problems yet, but then again that doesn't mean you didn't get a bad one from the factory, it can happen.

[Movin]

Honda came in with loss of oil and engine failure, the car had been to a quick lube
Oil can H and they used Fram filters out here. Fram did not recognize the difference
between AWD civics and standard ones. This caused the threads to bottom before
proper crush was obtained on the square oring. By the time the oil light came
on..on the interstate, the engine was toast. It turns out fram was cost saving by
using a subaru oil filter with the same specs and almost the same dimensions.
and the AWD will not fit right. Fram used to be pretty good but after they got
bought out??? I don't use them.

[twopass]

No damage that I can tell, but I did kill it as soon as the low oil light came on. Never let it get above idle after the light, and after I installed the oil pressure gauge it pegged 50 psi at cold start then fell to 4-5 psi, Thats why I thought of the oil filter .
My next step was to pull the engine to see it may have spun a main ,
I always take my time with this kind of stuff and this is not the first engine I ever built .
But who is perfect and I was thinking my old torq wrench may have had a hiccup that I missed.
I have not opened the stp filter
I used a new Purolator filter and all seems to be ok now.and the oil is so clean that its hard to see it on the dip stick unless I hold the stick up to the light to see the level

[bhazard]

Wix and purolator (pure one) are pretty good I've heard. Napa gold is a reboxed Wix.

Ive always heard Fram is junk.

[denguy]

I went to the billet permanent style with the medical grade stainless steel mesh cleanable element inside. I use them on my Harley and my Mustang. Waiting to see how they work out before I put them on my Festys.

[sc72]

filters

I read a while back that Fram has been bought out, the article didn't mention who owns them now, but i doubt the quality will go up. Wix is a good quality filter, i have a filter cutter and use it at every oil change, the filters always look good. Iirc they filter down to 18/20 micron.

[Flw Sock]

I usually just use the cheapest filter that the store has at the time. Usually, it's Purolater and I've never had any problems. However, I'm trying a new one on my Ranger called Promotive, but I've never had a problem with any oil filters so I'm hoping I won't start now.