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After my recent trip to Key West, I decided to change the oil in the FX4 (UOA of the M1 EP 0W-20 to follow soon). After 17,475 miles and 11 months, I remain impressed with the quality of the Ultra. As you can see, there are no wavy pleats, no tears, nothing that should not be there. The bypass valve assembly was sealed solidly to the filter housing, the ADBV was super pliable with no marks of any kind--this is in sharp contrast to the Motorcraft FL-820s that I ran for 10K that had hard indentions (almost like cuts) in its ADBV. There was never a start up rattle or issue of any kind. IMHO, for $7.50, there is no better filter on the market and I like the security of the wire backed media--no worries about tears or wavy media. This was my last Ultra from the original ones I bought so I just nabbed three more from AAP with a code--$7.53 each; hard to beat that deal.
I also opted to purchase a Gold Plug and installed it on this OCI. Probably will not do anything earth shattering, but it cannot hurt either. There was a lot of metal on the magnetic drain plug on my Mag-Hytec rear axle cover, so anything has to help.
Enjoy!
The oil looks relatively clean here:
Compare these two photos of the Ultra's ABDV (after 17,475 miles) with the next two of the MC (10,020 miles):
Notice the marks from the inlet holes:
I also opted to purchase a Gold Plug and installed it on this OCI. Probably will not do anything earth shattering, but it cannot hurt either. There was a lot of metal on the magnetic drain plug on my Mag-Hytec rear axle cover, so anything has to help.
Enjoy!
The oil looks relatively clean here:
Compare these two photos of the Ultra's ABDV (after 17,475 miles) with the next two of the MC (10,020 miles):
Notice the marks from the inlet holes: