Microguard made in Malaysia

[Chris142]

First I have seen one made there. Feels pretty heavy. Does premium guard have a plant there?

 

[SC Maintenance]

What does the center tube look like - holes or louvers?

I believe all the PG "plants" are contract manufacturers? Maybe they added another supplier due to the massive BITOG driven volume increase. Someone here needs to be getting a commission on all these sales.

 

[ZeeOSix]

PGI doesn't like louvers.

 

[GW.]

Interesting. Thanks for the post. @DannyM might have some insight. He’s taken the factory location deep dive.

 

[gunnellett]

PGI doesn't like louvers.

PGI must love them in some applications. My Vietnamese made Microgard Select filter has louvers. 7.3 Powerstoke.

 

[ZeeOSix]

PGI must love them in some applications. My Vietnamese made Microgard Select filter has louvers. 7.3 Powerstoke.

Rare occurrence ... but at least they are well formed like they should be.

 

[GW.]

PGI must love them in some applications. My Vietnamese made Microgard Select filter has louvers. 7.3 Powerstoke.

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Honestly some of the best louvers I’ve seen in a long time!

 

[gunnellett]

Honestly some of the best louvers I’ve seen in a long time!

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I'm not complaining for sure!

 

[fantastic]

Malaysia not super common.
Interesting find.

 

[Chris142]

What does the center tube look like - holes or louvers?

I believe all the PG "plants" are contract manufacturers? Maybe they added another supplier due to the massive BITOG driven volume increase. Someone here needs to be getting a commission on all these sales.

I forgot to look.sorry

 

[slacktide_bitog]

PGI must love them in some applications. My Vietnamese made Microgard Select filter has louvers. 7.3 Powerstoke.

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Are they the Hastings/Baldwin style non-directional louvers? Those seem to be easier to make, as they always seem to be fully open and not have the problems of other slotted center tubes.

 

[gunnellett]

Are they the Hastings/Baldwin style non-directional louvers? Those seem to be easier to make, as they always seem to be fully open and not have the problems of other slotted center tubes.

I do not know but I bet someone here will.

 

[ZeeOSix]

They look like they punch the whole width of the louver slot straight out from the center tube. They look like a mini-bridge, and don't have a separate up and down opposite pointing louver like most filters have.

 

[alcyon]

Is the address of the factory in Malaysia printed on the box ?

 

[fantastic]

PGI must love them in some applications. My Vietnamese made Microgard Select filter has louvers. 7.3 Powerstoke.

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They look like they punch the whole width of the louver slot straight out from the center tube. They look like a mini-bridge, and don't have a separate up and down opposite pointing louver like most filters have.

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The old Mobil 1 (M+H) c&p I did a long time ago, for a 7.3L app, shows up & down louvers so seems to be the design of the filter media taken into account or just simply tooling equipment. Just shows it all depends on who's manufacturing it. All one way perhaps is less costly to do.

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[Fair enough]

The old Mobil 1 (M+H) c&p I did a long time ago, for a 7.3L app, shows up & down louvers so seems to be the design of the filter media taken into account or just simply tooling equipment. Just shows it all depends on who's manufacturing it. All one way perhaps is less costly to do.

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Thread '9,748 Miles on Mobil 1 M1-601 Oil Filter'

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Ran this M1-601 Filter on my 1995 Ford F-250 Power Stroke 7.3 for exactly 9,748 miles.
But it's a 15K oil filter..
Yeah, I know but almost 10,000 miles on something as old as my 95 is equivalent to 15,000 miles...HA!

I enjoy watching others hack into used oil filters to see how they hold up. So, I decided to hack my own to see how well it held up. I ran 5w-40 Shell T6 HDEO. I took my 20v dewalt recipricating saw & got to work (no fancy oil filter cutter here). The pictures show the results but in my opinion the filter held up really well. I was not easy on this filter & oil either. I...

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The Purolator made louvers are individual back to back while the Baldwin style are open on both ends with a little roof, I think.
It could be the topic filter was copied from Baldwin?
One thing about good sales and profits you don’t go bankrupt and you can invest in new machinery and hire experienced people to supervise the manufacturing. Going bankrupt is saving money any way possible and probably works against sales.

 

[DannyM]

Interesting. Thanks for the post. @DannyM might have some insight. He’s taken the factory location deep dive.

Yeah.. It's these dudes here out of Malaysia contracted under PG : https://www.flowguardfilter.com/

 

[Kira]

I haven't seen a nascent website that new and so empty in a long time.

 

[I<3oil]

I haven't seen a nascent website that new and so empty in a long time.

Excellent quality, classic products !

 

[Kira]

So I read.