Fram xg2 Possible Tear?

[Walteramie]

Filter has 5000 miles on it. 95 Ford f250. 199.000 miles. 5.8l...

 

[hemitom]

That must be the proto type high flow filter with extra large pleat spacing.
You must be one of the lucky ones chosen to run the blind test.

 

[Walteramie]

Gonna either go to the titanium or the new 25 thousand miles fram from Walmart. Also 5w30 quaker state synthetic was used the last oil change

 

[fantastic]

Doesn't look great but I am having some trouble locating the tear from your pics. Can you help point it out? Edit: is it the first pic to the right?

 

[Zee09]

Looks like the oil is filtering the media

 

[Walteramie]

That must be the proto type high flow filter with extra large pleat spacing.
You must be one of the lucky ones chosen to run the blind test.

It's just sad fram went this route with the new ultra. I was a die hard ultra user too

 

[Walteramie]

Doesn't look great but I am having some trouble locating the tear from your pics. Can you help point it out?

Oops sorry it isn't torn. My bad. I could of swore it was.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Contact Fram about this. Only way a company improves or fixes problems is with customer feedback.

 

[Walteramie]

Sorry guys when I first got the filter out I touched the filter media and I could of swore it was torn. But it's not torn. It just looked like it was my bad. Still pretty sad considering the pleat spacing and glue coming off the endcap

 

[ZeeOSix]

Oops sorry it isn't torn. My bad. I could of swore it was.

Well, at least that shows the media may be tougher than expected. If it was going to tear, it would have done it with those super wide pleats.

 

[RooflessVW]

It's just sad fram went this route with the new ultra. I was a die hard ultra user too

Isn't this the old Ultra?

 

[fantastic]

Sorry guys when I first got the filter out I touched the filter media and I could of swore it was torn. But it's not torn. It just looked like it was my bad. Still pretty sad considering the pleat spacing and glue coming off the endcap

Thanks for the correction & clarification. I didn't think there was any tears but sometimes it takes a double look.

 

[Walteramie]

Well, at least that shows the media may be tougher than expected. If it was going to tear, it would have done it with those super wide pleats.

Yeah I just tried to pry the media where I thought it was torn and it held without tearing so it's definitely a tough media still

 

[Dave Hess]

Was this filter glued / assembled by hand or machine ?

 

[simple_gifts]

So i'm confused; thread title says xg2, but we are talking about Ultras? Someone please clarify.

 

[Walteramie]

Shoot another blunder on my part . I really should use my glasses. It is the old style ultra. I just tore into the media with a pair of pliers and sure enough metal screen backing. .

 

[ZeeOSix]

So i'm confused; thread title says xg2, but we are talking about Ultras? Someone please clarify.

"XG" in XG2 means it's a Fram Ultra.

 

[Walteramie]

Shoot another blunder on my part . I really should use my glasses. It is the old style ultra. I just tore into the media with a pair of pliers and sure enough metal screen backing. .

No wonder why it was hard to tear into it with just my fingers

 

[ZeeOSix]

Shoot another blunder on my part . I really should use my glasses. It is the old style ultra. I just tore into the media with a pair of pliers and sure enough metal screen backing. .

No wonder those super wide pleats didn't tear, lol.

 

[kschachn]

Yeah I just tried to pry the media where I thought it was torn and it held without tearing so it's definitely a tough media still

So it’s a pretty good filter.