OIL PSI AT END OF 1/4 MILE

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11-03-2010, 06:45 AM

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What oil filter are you running ?

fram racing filter cant remember the number.

OH NO, not a Fram.
Change to a different filter and see if that helps. I use Wix and will NEVER put a Fram on anything I own.

11-03-2010, 06:48 AM

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What oil filter are you running ?

fram racing filter cant remember the number.

OH NO, not a Fram.
Change to a different filter and see if that helps. I use Wix and will NEVER put a Fram on anything I own.

Get rid of the fram filter !!!!! Use a Wix racing filter.

11-03-2010, 07:44 AM

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I 100% without a doubt would have that engine out of the car and the pan off to inspect the bearings. no way would I just hope for the best. If you don't you will worry yourself sick every time you here a little noise from it,or at least I would.

11-03-2010, 08:17 AM

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NO DOUBT ABOUT IT,THE PAN IS COMING OFF TO SEE OF THE PICKUP CAME OFF.HOPEFULLY I CAN DO THIS WITHOUT PULLING THE MOTOR.TOD YOU THINK THERE IS BOTTOM END DAMAGE WITH THE OIL PSI THAT LOW AT 7100 RPM?

11-03-2010, 08:56 AM

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NO DOUBT ABOUT IT,THE PAN IS COMING OFF TO SEE OF THE PICKUP CAME OFF.HOPEFULLY I CAN DO THIS WITHOUT PULLING THE MOTOR.TOD YOU THINK THERE IS BOTTOM END DAMAGE WITH THE OIL PSI THAT LOW AT 7100 RPM?

It's not worth taking the chance. If it were me I'd pull it and go through it and put a Wix back on it.

11-03-2010, 11:28 AM

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What oil filter are you running ?

fram racing filter cant remember the number.

OH NO, not a Fram.
Change to a different filter and see if that helps. I use Wix and will NEVER put a Fram on anything I own.

THE ORANGE CANISTER OF ENGINE DEATH!

11-03-2010, 12:51 PM

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Have any of you had any first hand experience with a failure due to a fram filter,or are these comments based only on the bad reputation they have?

11-03-2010, 12:54 PM

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NO DOUBT ABOUT IT,THE PAN IS COMING OFF TO SEE OF THE PICKUP CAME OFF.HOPEFULLY I CAN DO THIS WITHOUT PULLING THE MOTOR.TOD YOU THINK THERE IS BOTTOM END DAMAGE WITH THE OIL PSI THAT LOW AT 7100 RPM?

maybe maybe not. Spend at most a couple hundred bucks now checking/replacing the bearings or worry about it tossing a rod out the side of the block if a bearing is damaged and spins later.

Peace of mind is worth something.

jmo I have been called "Paranoid Floyd" before so .....

11-03-2010, 01:03 PM

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Have any of you had any first hand experience with a failure due to a fram filter,or are these comments based only on the bad reputation they have?

I have been there with the fram filters. And I caught it early. Still I pulled the pan and check bearing and put a new oil pump and cleaned everything. Fram Sucks I wouldn't run them on my lawn mower.