best oil filter?

[Anonymous]

Extended oil change intervals are OK with Amsoil stuff.

WIX 51515 is great.
Pure One.
Motorcraft FL1A

This is what I understand but just for the heck of it I sent off for a Oil Test Kit from;

Blackstone Laboratories
416 East Pettit Avenue
Fort Wayne IN 46806
260.744.2380

You hear so many things today I just want to see for myself what is going on in my motors. We could all talk until we are all blue in the face but the test will reveal the facts and thats all I am interested in. Like I said I will more than likely just keep on doing what I have always done because I have never had one single problem and I am a type person that doesn't believe in fixing anything that is not broken or changing anything that is working perfectly. I will post when the test kit arrives. My oil change isn't due for another 10,000 miles. When it is time to change the oil and filter again I will send in the oil testing but that is a 10,000 miles up the road yet. Here is everything that has been done to my 2003 Ford 150 SuperCrew with the 5.4 motor.

New
K&N Cold Air Induction System & Filter
Flow Master Dual Exhaust System

5,000 Miles
Amsoil Oil & Filter 5W-30 Amsoil Synthetic

25,000 Miles
Amsoil Oil & Filter 5W-30 Amsoil Synthetic

50,000 Miles
Amsoil Oil & Filter 5W-30 Amsoil Synthetic
Changed Transmission Fluid & Filter

52,000 Miles - 52,000 miles on tires that came on truck
Bought 4 Used - 2003 Harley Davidson Edition 20â€￾ Rims with 4 - 285/50/20 – Eagle II Low Profile Tires that come on the rimes for $800.00

75,000 Miles
Amsoil Oil & Filter 5W-30 Amsoil Synthetic

94,800 Miles - 42,800 miles on tires that came on the rims
New Tires 4 – 20â€￾ Eagle II - 285/50/20 Low Profile Tires

100,000 Miles
Amsoil Oil & Filter 5W-30 Amsoil Synthetic
Changed Transmission Fluid & Filter
Changed Rear-end Dope - Amsoil Synthetic

108,000 Miles
New Brakes Pads on all 4 Wheels

125,000 Miles
Next oil Change

The truck has never had a tune-up, flat tire or even a bulb blow out. At the time of the next oil and filter change I am going to have the radiator and motor flushed and new coolant put in. I know the battery is going to need to be replaced sometime in the future it is 5 years old in July. Everything can be documented I have all the receipts where I paid for the oil, filters, brakes and the receipts for the labor. I am keeping records of everything to prove to a friend I can get 250,000+ miles on the truck. He argues no V8 has ever gotten over 200,000 miles. Thats when I shot my mouth off and said I could get that on my pickup. Well so far I have a little over 115,000 on the truck and looking good on the back stretch as of this moment anyways.

 

[Gene Fiore]

Motorcraft FL-299. Its a longer filter & that allows you to run 5 Qts. instead of 4 1/2 Qts. Bill

I've always ran Fram filters and have never had a lick of engine problems. And the Fram PH977A is the longer version of the PH8A and also allows you to run 5 qts instead of 4 1/2 qts.

 

[48fordnut]

this will never be setteled. it has been an ongoing discussion on all of the gearhead forums. Its opinions. The man using amsoil may have the only good /bad report because he is going the scientific way=proof.

 

[Lazy JW]

this will never be setteled. it has been an ongoing discussion on all of the gearhead forums. Its opinions....

Yup. It is safer to criticize a man's choice of politics, religion, or women than to say anything bad about his choice of oil or firearms

This oil filter thing is WAY overblown. I have had no problems running air-cooled Volkswagens 100K+ miles using no oil filter at all, still had good compression and used very little oil.

I use Walmart's SuperTech brand oil and filters. Better than Fram for less money. I previously used Fram for 30+ years with no problems whatsoever, but when you can get a better filter for less money, why not?

Air filtration, on the other hand is ABSOLUTELY VITAL!
Joe

 

[page62]

this will never be setteled. it has been an ongoing discussion on all of the gearhead forums. Its opinions....

Yup. It is safer to criticize a man's choice of politics, religion, or women than to say anything bad about his choice of oil or firearms

This oil filter thing is WAY overblown. I have had no problems running air-cooled Volkswagens 100K+ miles using no oil filter at all, still had good compression and used very little oil.

True. I'd forgotten about that. I had a Beetle, and all it had was a screen as an oil filter. I hated having to pull and clean that thing...

 

[fordconvert]

I have had some issues with frams and if you ever tear one apart you can tell they dont spend much time putting them together. In the past I had always used the OE brand filers (ac/mopar/motorcraft) but in the last several years they have become cheap and sloppy also so I have been using wix or the NapaGold which are wix.

 

[Eric Rose]

I change the oil in my modern V6 Mercedes every 10,000 miles. (I have two: a C320 and an SLK320 -- all my cars have 6-cylinder engines!) I use Mobil 1 oil and a Mann (MB OEM) fleece-type filter. State of the art stuff. .

Mann filters =

I used to have a '90 Jetta, and a lot of my friends have watercooled VW's. The VW application requires a really specific valve in the oil filter, but some replacement type filters (Fram and others) do not have the correct valve. A lot of VW guys come on to the forums and report oil pressure problems, ticking lifters, etc. When we get them convinced into using the OEM (Mann, Bosch, and Mahle) oil filters these problems usually go away.

I'm used a Motorcraft filter on my last motor and will probably continue using them, just because I know everything inside it is specified by Ford. I've always had good luck with Motorcraft stuff.

 

[Anonymous]

this will never be setteled. it has been an ongoing discussion on all of the gearhead forums. Its opinions. The man using amsoil may have the only good /bad report because he is going the scientific way=proof.

When I started using Synthetic oil in my mind I was willing to lose a motor just to see if the stuff really work. So far after 24 years I haven't lost one yet. The same way with the K&N Cold Air Induction System I was told do not touch the air filter for 50,000 miles. I have only cleaned and re-oiled the air filter twice since I have had it on the truck and right now I have 35,000 more miles to go before it needs cleaned again. I had the man I order my oil from ask me if I would refer Amsoil to my friends and I told him no, because tomorrow someone might come out with something else that I might try and never use Amsoil again.

I swear no allegiance ot any product. I am not passionate about the Amsoil products I just tried them and did as they told me to do and because of the service I get from the product I am still using it. I am not say the oil is any better or worst than any other oil because I have gotten over a 100,000 on motors using Valvoline 10W30 before I even tried Amsoil. Back when I was running Valvoline 10W30 I never changed my oil and Fram filter but every 10,000 mile. The reason I did this is because everyone says you are to change every 3,000 miles back then. You even hear to change at 3,000 miles or every 3 months and I asked myself why? Does the oil go bad after 3 months? It just sounded like to me the oil companies want reassurance there product will keep moving so they can make more money.

In my case and mine alone from the way it sounds, I just took a persons word for it that it was better for your motor to use the Synthetic oil and tried it and have been using it every since. Is it better? Hell I don't know I have never tested the oil after changes and I have never had any oil related problems with any of the motors I use the oil in, all I can say is that it works for me and I can document the way I have been doing things with my motors. Am I proving this to you by keeping records? No, I am proving it to myself I just shared my findings with this forum in my post. I agree it is something that will never be resolved. Why do I ride a Harley when there are so many rice burners that get so much better service? Why am I a shotgun person when there are so many rifles? Why do I sleep in the nude when the clothing stores sell PJ's? I guess all I can say is because I can nothing more nothing less. Everyone has there own opinion but very few can prove anything. I am just a person who is proving to himself that what I am doing is working.

 

[48fordnut]

I use the wal mart brand of oil in my dragster, alcohol, street rod, lawn mower, and our daily drivers. I also use fram filters, and change oil every 3k miles. Had to have a valve spring replaced on my windstar,136k and the shop ask what oil i used, told them ,they said that was as clean a eng they had ever been into. I think pennzoil makes it, could be wrong. it works for me just like the amsoil work for the other guy. I am a eng builder and have never lost a bearing.

 

[Bort62]

I'm with SCC on this one, FWIW. I also once changed the oil for a girl who hadn't changed it in 20k miles (conventional). It came out like molasses. She did that a few times.

Car is still running 200k later.

I got 100k miles out of the last set of brakepads on my Honda. It just depends on your situation, how you drive / operate the vehicle, and what your goals are.

BTW, non-syntheic oil does break down. It's an organic compound and when exposed to heat and pressure changes it's makeup.

 

[JackFish]

I think that if one was to run an extended OCI one could swap out the oil filter now and then, and just top off with clean oil. Good to go for another few thousand.

 

[wsa111]

As a moderator, you backyard jet pilots do not need to give the average reader of this forum any false information such as oil change intervals.
Doing so might give a reader the idea that they can change oil at whenever they want & not follow the guidelines described in the manufacturers owners manual.
I have worked in auto dealerships for many years & can tell you the miliage interval that an owner changes oil just by looking inside the engine when the valve cover was off for routine maintanence, or was towed in for a rod knock or a seized engine.
SCC at least you said this has worked for you in your driving habits with that perticular product.
This forum is only a place to say what has worked for you, but it does not advise any reader the idea to play russian roulette on oil change intervals that are way beyond the vehicle manufacturers bible the owners manual.
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