Vintage NOS Fram PH43 Cut and Post

[Creekside]

Found 3 of these in a storage building I’m cleaning out at my grandparents place. Storm blew part of the roof off last year and a lot of it has been leaking for the better part of a decade. Boxes were pretty well ruined but I decided to save them and cut one open. May put the other two up on the shelf just because.

I don’t know how old they are and I don’t see anything that resembles a date code. I do know that the vast majority of the items in this building haven’t moved in my lifetime and I’m 30.

 

[jkasch]

Found 3 of these in a storage building I’m cleaning out at my grandparents place. Storm blew part of the roof off last year and a lot of it has been leaking for the better part of a decade. Boxes were pretty well ruined but I decided to save them and cut one open. May put the other two up on the shelf just because.

I don’t know how old they are and I don’t see anything that resembles a date code. I do know that the vast majority of the items in this building haven’t moved in my lifetime and I’m 30.

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In before someone says they’d use them.

 

[Chris142]

Those were popular with Chrysler stuff. 318/360/400/440 from the 70'S

 

[mrsilv04]

Now I see why people link Frams with having 'cardboard' end caps...

 

[Lubener]

That's before the "wearguard" labeling of the 80's. They didn't skimp on the amount of media back then.

 

[Creekside]

Those were popular with Chrysler stuff. 318/360/400/440 from the 70'S

He had an 80s-ish Jeep Cherokee or Grand Cherokee when I was very young. I suspected they might have been for it as I found some other items that were clearly marked.

 

[Hootbro]

Rust aside, the fiber board end cap and media looks of better construction that some of what they put out the last couple of years.

 

[Speedy3861]

Hey, the center tube has actual holes not louvers.....I can't remember back in the sixties when I used AC filters on my Pontiacs how they were constructed, we just changed them and the oil often and didn't know much about them.

 

[jhellwig]

Ah yes, I remember Fram filters...

 

[ZeeOSix]

Hey, the center tube has actual holes not louvers...

I still have some Fram OG Ultras made around 2017 and they still have holes instead of louvers. I think Fram started going with louvers not too long after that like everyone else that got on the louver train.

 

[hemitom]

I see on the filter ! A bendix company on the can so I think around a mid 80's filter ?

 

[hemitom]

My dad used a lot of those filters in the 80's on his 440's also remember him using the Kmart branded motorvator anyone remember those ?

 

[Lubener]

I see on the filter ! A bendix company on the can so I think around a mid 80's filter ?

Most likely 70's. into early 80's.

 

[melk]

The string is part of the original construction?

 

[hemitom]

The string is part of the original construction?

Yes !

 

[ChrisMU]

Bendix acquired Fram in 1967, then the company became Allied Signal in 1985, so it should be between those years. Judging from the logo/typography, I’d say the end of that timespan. Maybe I should use the 1992-dated Fram PH8A’s I inherited from my grandpa’s stash. The top plates aren’t nearly as rusty.

 

[QwikKota]

No wonder they got a bad rep back then.

 

[Hootbro]

No wonder they got a bad rep back then.

To be fair, 70's and early 80's were not exactly great for motor oil either.

 

[QwikKota]

To be fair, 70's and early 80's were not exactly great for motor oil either.

I can imagine. Some old timers still think I'm crazy for using Pennzoil products nowadays.

 

[Hootbro]

I can imagine. Some old timers still think I'm crazy for using Pennzoil products nowadays.

One of the main contributors back then and where most of the "Orange Can of Death" stories came from was due to the prevalence of engine mounted oil bypass valves that could stick and cause filter collapse. The heavy paraffin wax content of those oils back then did not help.