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Calif charges registration on value. A new car you pay a lot, then it tapers down over ten years or something and levels off. Right now like about $150. If you put a camper shell on your pickup it can be registered like a car. If open bed it has to be a commercial vehicle, which is a little...

Where do rod bearings get their oil from, I forgot. The stock oiling system seems to work well.

It will switch back and forth over the next years. The ev incentive has already done a lot to get people to notice and like electric propulsion, and advance tech for electric. Maybe some don’t like it and some do, that’s their choice.

You can safely use the F1, can’t see a reason why not unless it sticks out too far. Your parts dealer may have other opinions.

I got same one today with a Walmart order. The bad news is the adbv doesn’t cover the holes well. It’s shifted over so a gap is present. I saw this on a Fram PH3614 and posted pictures. Another said they saw it on theirs too. For a few cents more they sell the PH3614 that is the same thing with...

It is supposed to be flush or a little recessed is better, but always isn’t on some recent examples I have cut. Just a little bit too long. If it is flush, no compression against the resin either. The resin can be rough too, I have seen it, which gives a light leak. The resin is hard, not very...

A Wix has the same design as a Fram? I may be forgetting something. I am pretty sure I hear people complaining Wix is made by Purolator. Fram now has Champ. The Napa went to China or something, silicone base gasket. Is the bypass valve deleted in the block?

Honda doesn’t test the parts it sells?

Though there is a problem getting the synthetic media. It seems a blend has been widely adopted. Well done metal bypass valves can seal fine for the purpose. I don’t like seeing glue on holes or louvers at the tube ends. It could be done better but I guess costs more to leave a flat area...

I know only elements are bubble point tested and efficiency is the whole assembled filter tested. No one apparently is finding lower efficiency numbers at Fram due to the bypass seal. They say the same 99% @ 20 micron numbers for all the filters under discussion.

Ascent put corks in removable bypass valve filters to pass the bubble point. Leaky bypass valves don’t pass. First time I heard of filters being put back together and tested. It seems Fram isn’t finding any correlations with bypass leaks as the average number remains at 20. It all gets more...

Nylon cage March 2025 date. Also poorly centered end caps, adbv pushed over and the base holes were open on one side. Plus that black on the adbv is dirt with visible metal flecks. Base plate not cleaned well. PH3614

Purolator looks great doesn’t it. I cut my Pentius PLXL open this morning. Never going to get around to using it. Most perfect media spacing and cleanliness I’ve ever seen. Can is super strong and thick. Adbv beautiful. All fit and finish remarkably good, except the center holes punching a...

That was an interesting one because it has the mesh, it is not magnetic( wasn’t magnetic before, was stainless) and the media was sort of loosely bonded. The close up of the media shows mostly free fiber strands, much more open than usually seen. I notice that when the media is packed with...

Need to check if adbv shifted over and there is a gap also. I bought 2025 New Fram product and the adbv wasn’t sealing the base holes. The QC inside was a mess too. Otherwise they have pretty good media but are starting to skimp on it even more than they used too.

What does this have to do with anything?

All that at 12:33AM? I’m not reading all of it but if you think oil is not spread out going through a slot just keep on thinking it. Makes the adbv bend more evenly too. Imagine one base hole. The media is very close, the spread oil won’t change shape much before it goes to the next pressure...

I wasn’t talking about baseplate pressure changes. The oil is dispersed more evenly and directed at the pleats more square on with slots or oval holes or plenty of any shaped holes. Much better imo. There are so many fittings and pressure changes in an engine, base plate change in pressure isn’t...

The oil is distributed more evenly with the slots. Less oil turning and hitting the sides of pleats rather than straight on. The oil streams are wider. I don’t think Denso was thinking about DP at all. Fram seems to be trying the same thing with an abundance of holes on some filter bases.