Fram Ultra 7317, 9000 miles cut open

[Brybo86]

This Fram Ultra 7317 came off my 2008 Accord.
Oil was Amsoil 0w20 SS SM flavor, used all winter with many 1-2 mile short trips and with idling by my wife.
Mileage about 9000 but I'm Not exactly sure as the wife accidentally reset my trip B

which I use to track Oil changes....
Cut using the HF exhaust cutter

Here is my Blox magnetic drain plug

Small amount of sediment on the bypass valve. Yes it moved very easily.

media

Tiny bit of grit in the filter

taken apart

about 36 inches worth of media, took awhile to rip apart the end caps.

end caps and center tube

media and wire backing

so there is the wire backing and then I believe I had 3 tiny thin layers of this stuff.
or 1 big layer that I was able to carefully pull apart into 3 layers.

IIRC the amsoil filter I used last year had wire backing and then 2 distinctly different layers

refilled with Walmart clearance Royal Purple 0w20 and another Fram Ultra 7317

Off topic.... How is it that I can take clear pictures with my oily hands and my 2 yr old cell phone
BUT
Gumout's PROVE IT website only has pictures that were taken with a toaster by someone also having a seizure?

 

[jk_636]

Good looking filter. Looks very well built, definetely the only Fram product I would use.

Did the bypass valve still open and close easily? I wonder how the plastic held up after all the heat from the motor oil.

Thanks for the cut and post.

 

[Stewie]

Thanks C&P I got the same magnetic drain plug.

Btw better hide those pliers b4 certificates are required

 

[daves87rs]

Nice....

 

[mjoekingz28]

Nice, thorough examination!

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: jk_636
Did the bypass valve still open and close easily? I wonder how the plastic held up after all the heat from the motor oil.


It's high temperature nylon, good for 400 deg F.

 

[DoubleWasp]

Good show. FU does it again.

 

[jk_636]

Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
Originally Posted By: jk_636
Did the bypass valve still open and close easily? I wonder how the plastic held up after all the heat from the motor oil.


It's high temperature nylon, good for 400 deg F.


That doesn't answer the question at hand.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: jk_636
Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
Originally Posted By: jk_636
Did the bypass valve still open and close easily? I wonder how the plastic held up after all the heat from the motor oil.


It's high temperature nylon, good for 400 deg F.


That doesn't answer the question at hand.


I wasn't addressing the "question at hand", I was clarifying the false assumption that you though it was plastic that wasn't up for the job. Have you ever seen one fail? Of course it still opened and closed perfectly fine.

 

[larryinnewyork]

Great photos. Thanks.

Suggestion: Instead of prying End Caps off the media,
take a (retractable) razor blade and cut along the End Caps.

Edit: Unless the Filters built in such a way that you can't.
I now see the Inner Tube and Screening.

 

[WobblyElvis]

Very well done and thanks for posting the pics.

I like the Fram ultra and there is one in my car right now but I have always thought the media is so thick and inflexible that they have less square inches of media than the average filter. This filter's media appears to only be about 72 square inches which is far less than average. They are built like a tank but I wonder if the small filter area poses a problem.

 

[redhat]

Heh, I thought I was reading about myself for a minute here.

I ran the same combo (AMS SS 0W-20 SM and FU 7317) for the winter.

Dumped at 8k. I was pleased with it all. Thanks for the pics.

 

[webfors]

What a great filter. So well built.

But... since I always point out pleating at the seam... the Ultra could do with one more pleat. That being said, it's a wire mesh backed media so I'm just being picky.

 

[jk_636]

Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
Originally Posted By: jk_636
Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
Originally Posted By: jk_636
Did the bypass valve still open and close easily? I wonder how the plastic held up after all the heat from the motor oil.


It's high temperature nylon, good for 400 deg F.


That doesn't answer the question at hand.


I wasn't addressing the "question at hand", I was clarifying the false assumption that you though it was plastic that wasn't up for the job. Have you ever seen one fail? Of course it still opened and closed perfectly fine.


Stop trolling.

This question was intended for the OP who opened this filter.

 

[Bud_One]

Thanks for the cut & post - Brybo86 -

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: jk_636
This question was intended for the OP who opened this filter.


So? Anyone can answer anyone's questions. You stop trolling.

 

[Stewie]

Btw what's the weather like in the winter? How often did you have to cold start?

 

[Brybo86]

On a typical day this engine saw about 3-4 cold starts followed by a 1-2 mile drive.

It got down to like -10 F this winter

 

[Stewie]

Originally Posted By: Brybo86
On a typical day this engine saw about 3-4 cold starts followed by a 1-2 mile drive.

It got down to like -10 F this winter


Tempted to run 10k but warranty work is messed up

 

[mjoekingz28]

Is that a pinhole on the far right pleat in the last photograph?


It appears that the media caught zero dirt/metal/debris! The filter just looks oil soaked.