Recent content by mphilleo

Right, by all accounts none of this should have happened, it's definitely abnormal. Given all the pieces of information and surrounding factors, I still can't quite determine why this happened and then continue on as if nothing occurred. Piston slap? Exhaust leak? Maybe. I'm not sure.

Now that you mention it, it does sound a bit like an exhaust leak. Normally, the Jeep has never sat more than 7-10 days when I rotate shift weeks in the winter. It was also during the coldest weeks of the winter that it was sitting in the garage for 3-4 weeks. I think the temp in there was...

For various life reasons, I hadn't started my 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited for a few weeks. I put it on a battery tender during that period, so it cranked fine that day. Since it had been sitting for so long, I gave it a few seconds of cranking in clear flood mode to help get oil back up to the...

I recently (in the last few months) noticed the price of the Microgard Select dropped from $10.99 to $9.99 at my local O'Reilly's. This immediately made me suspicious, as prices are rarely lowered for no apparent reason. After investigating my preferred size filters on the shelf, I noticed that...

Fram built such a good mouse trap that they had to discontinue it and decontent its replacement.

If an individual has that much ferrous metal material circulating in their oiling system, there are likely serious problems developing, or already developed. Furthermore, there is a point of diminishing returns with something like that.

If you need that many magnets, you have bigger problems than oil and oil filtration.

I see someone likes to live dangerously...

That glue job looks like it belongs in the Louvre, framed on a wall, compared to most filters these days.

This reminds me of the modern automotive landscape of CUVs...about 5 different derivations of the same thing at slightly different price points. Pointless and crass. What a shameless cash grab, screw First Brands and their brands.

I just installed one on my Jeep Wrangler, transitioned from the Mobil 1 filter. After tearing that one apart, it's a pretty nice filter...just not $15-16 nice. With the MSL, I feel like I'm getting what I'm paying for. If high single digits and low double digits is our brave new world, I'll...

My newest filter is a Micogard Select. One of the things I like best about it are the holes. You don't have to wonder about them - they're either open or they aren't.

That makes sense. I figured there had to be a simple reason like this one.

If that's the case, how do they justify the price they're listing the Titanium at? The cool, black, anti-slip coating? :rolleyes:

Pour one out for the OG Wix...if it hasn't already leaked out the base plate.