Important Oil Filter Update

[lostforawhile]

i only put K&N on mine :P and yes cheap filter are fine for beaters and just to get around town cars lol isent that what most ppl use there 3gees for anyway? mine is only a DD cuz i dont have another car lol and i only use filter i know are good on my car i care about my car hence why i use good filter but i see alot of 3gees out there that look worse then mine so i know alot of ppl out there dont care about there cars so they can go ahead and use fram or walmart brand or w/e they want lol

if you really cared you wouldn't do this crap,this does more damage then any oil filter

wont use fram on my 3gee cuz im rough on the car and dont drive it avrage (IE: rev the fuck out of the engine and here rev limiter alot)

[Civic Accord Honda]

lol its a honda it can handel that... now if i did that with a fram filter it would probley fall apart fast and clog my engine lol thats why i use a good filter thats ment for high rpms

[SZfiftyfour]

Lost, what about Mobil 1, hear anything about em? Thats what i use most of the time.

IMO Bosch has always been crap. I boycotted them after a platinum plug lost its insulator while the motor was running. After playing pong and beating the sh*t out of the cylinder/piston for a bit, it stuck the exhaust valve open. I know.... isolated event, but why chance it, i keep the plug in my tool box to remind me.
Really though, I should have made bosch replace my motor.

[Civic Accord Honda]

yeah i highy dislike bosch only thing they make good is there 02 sensors tbh

[lostforawhile]

Lost, what about Mobil 1, hear anything about em? Thats what i use most of the time.

IMO Bosch has always been crap. I boycotted them after a platinum plug lost its insulator while the motor was running. After playing pong and beating the sh*t out of the cylinder/piston for a bit, it stuck the exhaust valve open. I know.... isolated event, but why chance it, i keep the plug in my tool box to remind me.
Really though, I should have made bosch replace my motor.

well they used to make really good oil filters,then they switched to an overseas factory and didn't tell anyone when they went to crap. forrest has one from about 2 years ago,going to try to get him to send it to me so i can cut it open and comapre to them now.

[w261w261]

<i say buy a filter cutter tool>

Anyone have a recommendation for a particular one?

[w261w261]

well they used to make really good oil filters,then they switched to an overseas factory and didn't tell anyone when they went to crap. forrest has one from about 2 years ago,going to try to get him to send it to me so i can cut it open and comapre to them now.

I dug my just-replaced USA Bosch filter out of the trash can this morning, along with the box from the replacement, which was USA also, and has a cutaway picture on it. If you want them, send me your address and I'll mail em off.

Hal

[conozo]

if you run a filter with a non functioning bypass on it what will it specifically do to your engine.

[forrest89sei]

if you run a filter with a non functioning bypass on it what will it specifically do to your engine.

Well If the filter were to clog it wouldn't supply the motor oil, thats what happens
also I think a bad bypass valve can cause dry starts which isnt good for the motor either

[conozo]

Well If the filter were to clog it wouldn't supply the motor oil, thats what happens
also I think a bad bypass valve can cause dry starts which isnt good for the motor either

That would explain the need for my motor to be rebuilt. My car has been family owned and when my dad/me have done most of the oil changes. He always got a fram filter (i didnt know any better i was only 4 and older) But when i got the car a couple years ago i put a few fram oil filters on and after that whenever i do a cold start the oil light would stay on for a second or two untill the oil would circulate. It wouldnt do it for all the fram filters but if it did it once on a filter it always did it on that filter untill i replaced it. I also just put a fram filter on our minivan and its doing the same thing at startups.

now i know, im going to change the vans before it hurts it and i wont be using fram anymore.
Thanks for the update

[Dr_Snooz]

I boycotted them after a platinum plug lost its insulator while the motor was running. After playing pong and beating the sh*t out of the cylinder/piston for a bit, it stuck the exhaust valve open. I know.... isolated event, but why chance it, i keep the plug in my tool box to remind me.

Oh no. Not my Bosch Platinums too!!! Lousy frickin' Germans. I swear to God, after my BMW, I'll never own anything German again!