@Snagglefoot I was thinking of switching everything over to the Motomaster OE filters. Have on on the rez car and seeing they are pretty sound, would expand their use.
First Brand shutters Champion
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Here is why I liked the Motomaster OE plus on the 10060 filter. It has an abnormally large number of holes in the top plate that allowed my indicated oil pressure to be right on the money at 40 psi. Having said that Canadian Tire gets them from various places with different designs. With the price point below the Fram Ultra it will be interesting to see where they go for the replacement.
Considering all the different brands that Champion labs has manufactured for it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I feel bad for all the people out of a job and losing another US manufacturer sucks! Really a shame it had to happen this way.
I feel bad for all the people out of a job and losing another US manufacturer sucks! Really a shame it had to happen this way.
Was Champion making the Supertech oil filters?
Ah! Obviously, I did not know that. Thanks for the correction.
What about Mobil 1 oil filter? Who was making them? A quick Google shows Highline Warren LLC. It appears Champion Labs was making them previously, but somewhere are 2025 it changed.
If you are a company looking to pickup an oil filter manufacturing plant, minds well wait until they liquidate. But not sure the lost manufacturing capacity of Champion Labs would be picked up by a company manufacturing oil filters in the US.
If you are a company looking to pickup an oil filter manufacturing plant, minds well wait until they liquidate. But not sure the lost manufacturing capacity of Champion Labs would be picked up by a company manufacturing oil filters in the US.
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Does not Fram have a plant in ohio?
Yes, in Greenville if I remember right.
It will be interesting to see which direction companies like Amsoil and Royal Purple go now that their Champion spec-built filters are no longer available from Champion, especially Amsoil's EA series which have had quality issues as of late.
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Fleetguard has media that's more advanced than nanoglass, and yes, it's wire-backed. Donaldson offers their Synteq media, which is another excellent offering, also wire-backed.
The "ultimate" EaO would be a Fleetguard Nanonet filter IMHO.
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Are they offering filters for mainstream automotive applications with this media?
I’ve been using Amsoil and Royal Purple filters exclusively for several years now, just wondering what alternatives are out there for my applications.
Mann is the parent company of WIX/PUROLATOR. Hopefully they do a better job with quality control with First Brands-Champion if they get the bid than they have with Wix/Purolator.
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Best I recall Harley Motorcycle OEM Filters were made in that Champion York SC plant, shame as the most recent Harley oil filters are made in India!
I'm surprised some oil filter company did't buy this plant. With all the talk about tariffs I was in hope we would see some over seas filter companies come back home?
Very sad news! IF we ever have a War / Navel blockades we gonna need USA made oil filters!
I like the ones that call Mobil 1, 'Mobile 1" .
This is being told as a loss of 1000 jobs. Now, a loss of 1000 jobs in St. Louis or Louisville isn't such a big deal. Except this is a loss of 1000 good paying manufacturing jobs in rural southeast Illinois. There is very little else going on down there. There are likely lots of husbands and wives who both lost their jobs.
Over the past several years, I've bought a lot of ACDelco, LuberFiner, and SuperTech filters, knowing that they likely came out of Albion, IL. Hopefully, that plant will reopen as something else, but the odds of that likely aren't good. Illinois is simply a horrible environment for any sort of manufacturing... look how long the Chrysler plant in Belvidere (Rockford) IL has been closed.
Over the past several years, I've bought a lot of ACDelco, LuberFiner, and SuperTech filters, knowing that they likely came out of Albion, IL. Hopefully, that plant will reopen as something else, but the odds of that likely aren't good. Illinois is simply a horrible environment for any sort of manufacturing... look how long the Chrysler plant in Belvidere (Rockford) IL has been closed.
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The AMSOIL EaO filters originally had Donaldson Synteq media in them, they cheaped out a few years ago and moved the whole can to Champ.
Fleetguard has a range of medias, the most recent I think is an updated version of Nanonet, but they went from microglass to Stratapore, which was a media that was laid in continuous strands with no breaks, and was a polymer, so didn't need the same bonding agent as microglass, to an evolution of that process with Nanonet.
There are a few part #'s that cross to passenger car/light truck applications with the Stratapore media, including the Ford FL-820S equivalent, which fits many/most of the HEMI applications (and is the spec SRT filter).
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