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Date:         Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:08:23 -0800
Reply-To:     Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Low Oil Pressure
In-Reply-To:  <3.0.6.16.20000222200613.0bd77af8@postoffice.pacbell.net>
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At 08:06 PM 2/22/2000 +0000, you wrote: >At 08:56 AM 2/22/00 -0800, you wrote: >>Fram oil filter should not be used under any circumstances... it is not >>spec.Use only Mann/Mahle filters. We've covered this MANY times on the >>list. >>Bill > >Hmmm... > >Being brand new to the list, I had never been informed that oil filters >were such a big deal. This being the case, I have been using Fram and >other generally available filters along with Valvoline 20w-50 oil since I >purchased my '87 Syncro Westy - new. As I have 142,780 miles on the >original engine, I'm not sure just what horrors a Mann/Makle filter >prevents, but I have yet to be visited by them. > >David > Ditto - over 110k miles I've used mostly Frams, now Mobil 1's, never had any problems: I change oil & filter every 5k like a religion, & the oil level is only down ~ 1/32" in that 5k (prolly a cup or so?). Lifter's have never clattered, light's never come on...??? (only anecdotal - but true)

Austin


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