First oil filter you ever bought
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PH8A for a 1969 Datsun 510.
NAPA Gold 1061 for a 1984 Chevy C10 (305).
Pretty sure it was a Fram
I think it was a STP filter from Autozone for my 84 Celica in the early 00s.
Quaker State Deluxe
Oops, Q S Deluxe was the first oil. Don't recall the filter.
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Lee. Cheapest filter my dad and I could find at K Mart. That, along with Quaker State 10w30. My 1963 Valiant and my dad’s 1970 AMC Hornet went to 165k and 190k respectively. Still running but quite rotted.
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Car Quest branded WIX for my 1983 VW....took off an Orange Fram I think. I was 15.
I cant remember what I bought last week never mind almost 50 years ago.I first bought a WIX for my 88’ Cutlass Ciera “iron duke” 4cylinder. What was the first oil filter you ever bought?
happy Saturday BITOGERS
Super tech or Fram orange for my 89 sunbird in 02
It would have been for my ex's '73 Plymouth Satellite. At the time, Chrysler had recently switched over from their enormous filter to their slightly-less-enormous filter. We typically still used the enormous one even though the smaller one was called for. So it would have been one of those.
I remember those would be PF2 and PF53 in ACDelco, because later on I went to work for an auto parts store and sold a ton of them. But ex and I were Mopar-heads back then and wouldn't have been caught dead with a GM filter on the car. For the life of me I cannot remember what brand we did buy, though. It might have been Lee.
Funny related story: I was working on someone else's Mopar, I think a '70 or so Dart with a 225 slant six. I was trying to do an oil change. The filter, of the Enormous variety, appeared to have been installed by the Incredible Hulk, because I couldn't get a good enough grip to turn it with my strap wrench. So I skewered it with a screwdriver and tried to turn it off that way, not realizing that this engine had a standpipe that went up inside the oil filter body. I had skewered the standpipe along with the filter, and that made the problem an order of magnitude worse. In the end I had to peel the filter away in fragments.
I remember those would be PF2 and PF53 in ACDelco, because later on I went to work for an auto parts store and sold a ton of them. But ex and I were Mopar-heads back then and wouldn't have been caught dead with a GM filter on the car. For the life of me I cannot remember what brand we did buy, though. It might have been Lee.
Funny related story: I was working on someone else's Mopar, I think a '70 or so Dart with a 225 slant six. I was trying to do an oil change. The filter, of the Enormous variety, appeared to have been installed by the Incredible Hulk, because I couldn't get a good enough grip to turn it with my strap wrench. So I skewered it with a screwdriver and tried to turn it off that way, not realizing that this engine had a standpipe that went up inside the oil filter body. I had skewered the standpipe along with the filter, and that made the problem an order of magnitude worse. In the end I had to peel the filter away in fragments.
