Jere, If you feel that an oil filter will set off low oil pressure buzzer's-- That's good. If an engine doesn't have enough oil pressure to push the oil through a paper filter--you have problems--big problems. Fram, Sears, Gamble's, Oilzite, STP, Montgmery Wards, Mahle, Mann, Warshawsky's, Pennsoil, K-Mart, XYZ whatever. The filtering paper on the better filter's capture more small particles. Better filtering paper. So if you were having problems with a no bypass Fram low dollar filter you'd have the same thing with the upper crust catch it all filter's. The tighter the paper, the more oil pressure it's gonna take to push the oil through it. You said the Fram filter caused the oil pressure buzzer to go off--no oil pressure. No oil pressure--worn out engine / oil pump.
<<The engine isn't worn out. This engine has 90K on the lower end and about 1K on the upper and the van has 318K. My alarm would go off when coming off the freeway. I have used Phram in the past but the last filter was just bad. I would blame more of it on American workmanship at Phram. Jere>> |
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