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Traded in my 4 cylinder Toyota Tacoma (4 speed auto) for a Nissan Frontier 4.0 liter V6 (so I didn't have to manually downshift to third on almost every little highway hill.) What are folks liking for oil and oil filters for these? Thanks! RR

Hi, y'all, I bought an '02 Wrangler with the 6 cylinder. No owner's manual. Anybody know the correct oil capacity with filter, and grade? I assume 5W-30...and read somewhere 6 US quarts I think. Thanks! Rob

These are my war horses, although the 1911 is a new manufacture Remington. That one is built to Colt 1911 spec., except for a stainless barrel. The S&W 1917 is US army issue, but I don't know when it was made. It's missing the lanyard ring, but is otherwise original and a good shooter with...

Looking for a cross for a Briggs & Stratton 220000, 12.5 HP engine besides the B&S number. I been using L10241, but it's a little longer than is easy to intsall. The factory filter is very sort...maybe 2, 2-14" tall and about 3" diameter. Has a bypass and ADBV. Thanks. Oh yeah, I believe the...

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlxcFSq5k8c

This was run with nothing but 20W-50 conventional oil for about 1500 miles. I wanted to go more, but the canister was bulging from the cold starts and runs in the mornings, and I decided it was time for my "winter weight" 10-40 before I blew the filter gasket or something. The oil pressure...

http://www.mobil.com/Shared-Files-LCW/mobil-1-ep-oil-filter-design_amer_en.pdf ...compared with Wix, ProSelect and others

I picked up some Edge (with Titanium yada yada) 0W-20 the other day. I couldn't find much in the way of UOAs, but the ones I did looked pretty good. I haven't heard much about it lately. Is there any consensus about how well this oil lasts or engine wear issues? Any problems with it? Thanks in...

I got a Marlin XT-22 in .22LR the other day and like the way it shoots, but the QC seems to be terrible on these. I exchanged the first one because it was missing the trigger adjustment screw and locknut...no they will not just send you the parts. The second one the guy brought out had an...

We passed through Joplin, Missouri yesterday, and saw last month’s tornado damage first hand. It reminds me of pictures of Berlin, or other carpet bombed cities. Flags still at half-mast, many dead and many more displaced and homeless. We tried to find a steakhouse we had read about for dinner...

Blew a previously Time-Sert'ed (or similar insert) spark plug out. Whats the best product to fix this that I can actually get my hands on. Thanks.

I had no idea there was another Mobil filter besides the Mobil 1. Of course these are Champ Labs manufacture as well, but Ecore design.

Saw quarts of Mobil Special (not Super) dino oil at Target. Is that the same stuff as their bulk dino oil?

This is about the size of a Wix 51516, or Purolator L20195 with 3/4-16 threads, but has a higher bypass setting so it is not a substitute for these. Some VW/Audis use these Mahles. It has a respectable 165 sq. in. of media. The media measures a bit thinner, and appears more porous than most...

I got a T-1 (Beetle style) engine in my '69 VW microbus, but have an aftermarket remote oil filter on it. I usually use the same size filter as the T-4 (later model) engines call for as long as they have a bypass valve in the filter itself. The T-4 engines should already have a bypass in the...

With all the discussion about when filters go into bypass, I decided to do something crazy here. Now I don’t recommend this to anyone because if you screw up, there could be a major problem with the engine. And yes, this only applied to my application and one filter. It was a real pain to do, so...

Baldwin BT223 ~115 sq in of media .022” thick Canister ~.022” thick All in all, looks like a pretty good unit to me. Pleats were pretty even except right around the glued seam on the other side: Dome end bypass and coil spring: Media looks decent. The square is about 1/8” square...

This is a NAPA ProSelect 21521 that is used on the 1972 and later Volkswagen vans, 411s and 412s. (But don’t take my word for it—check the part numbers.) Anyway, I use this filter and wanted to cut open one of the new bypass style ProSelects. So far this filter hasn’t gone up like the WIX 51521...

This is the AC/Delco PF13CL “Classic” version of the PF13. So far I have not seen them available off the shelf, but got this from Amazon.com. It appears to be the old Champion Labs built, pre-Ecore version of the Delcos we used a few years ago. I always liked ths filter for the money. This model...

This is the factory filter that came from my new Tacoma 4 cylinder truck. I was going to run the factory fill for the entire 1000 mile break-in period stated in the manual, but decided to change it at a little over 600 miles because I was going on a 700 mile highway trip the next day. This is...