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May 22, 2004
Hi Cap'n and Jens,
I guess I've got to be a lone noise in the wind here. I've always used Fram or Pennzoil filters for as long as I can remember. I've got a 1275 in my van that has almost 300,000 miles on it since a major rebuild. Did 105,000 mile on a quickie rebuild before that, on an engine that came out of a burned MG Midget wreck. Admittedly this engine is now pretty tired, but it still goes OK. I changed the oil and filter religiously at 5k miles, with nary a peep out of this engine. Got 185,000 mile on it before it needed a valve job. Doesn't yet have hard seats in the head.
My current daily driver, a Morris 2 dr, has a used Datsun A15 engine in it. Since I put this in, I've driven it 140,000 miles always using Fram filters or whatever was on sale. I change the oil and filter at 2500 miles as it has a smaller oil capacity than the 1275. It still has no rattle on start up and NEVER requires any make up oil between changes. It seldom goes down more than a mm. or 2 on the dipstick between changes.
If Fram is so bad as it's made out to be, I wonder how much longer my engines would last if I had used "state of the art" hard to find and expensive filters?
Seems to me that my experience has been OK with them and 10-40 or summer 20-50 sale oil.
Later, Paul A
"Paul Asgeirsson" < PAsgeirsson@... > 32233
Posted on May 22, 2004 03:36 PM
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