Fram Problem Here Also
One year ago I was doing an oil change on my 69 Camaro powered by
a 434 SBC It's mainly a bracket car. I decided to go to Wal-Mart
and pick up some mobile 1 synthetic oil about $50, I thought it was the cheapest place to buy the oil, Well they didn't carry the K&N that I normaly ran so I picked up a Fram. After I changed the oil I loaded the car on the trailer and headed off to the track, Now keep in mind that my motor only makes 60 psi cold and 45-50 warm and Idles at 28-30
so I make two passes and no problems, I make the third pass and half way through the oil pressure drops to "0" so I kill the motor, pull the car to the trailer and once it's loaded I check the oil, oil level is fine so I start the car and no oil pressure so I shut it off and take it home. I connected another oil pressure gauge to the engine and fired it again and no oil pressure was the results, I pulled the engine from the car and dropped the pan nothing in the oil so I strained it to put it back in.
I also installed a new oil pump got it buttoned up dropped in my pump primer hit the drill and nothing so now I'm thinking time to rebuild.
Something told me to wait so it sat on the stand for two weeks as I talked to every one I new and every one had there opinions but when an older guy at the track said he had the same problem and it turned out to be the oil filter and it was a Fram, I thought that was easy enough to check .
So on the way home I picked up a new K&N and installed and hit the drill
and Yes right back to 60 PSI. After that I put 200 more passes on the motor and pulled it to freshen it and the bearing looked great. So from that day forward I will not buy any Fram products and I tell every one that Fram filters are garbage.