I might also add, that I would be careful of buying an important automotive
product from Wal-Mart as who knows from year to year who the actually
supplier of the part is. Don't forget that Wal-Mart is famous for buying
from the low cost supplier and even at that, beating them down for a few
pennies more. Corners have to be cut somewhere just to get the Wal-Mart
contract. There is a reason why their stuff is so cheap. I am not sure who
supplies NAPA or the other similar stores but I bet that they are more
interested in quality than in low wholesale purchase prices that Wal-Mart
claims to pass on the consumer regardless of the damage that the part does
to an engine. You get what you pay for. I buy well known brands at Wal-Mart
but I'll be damned if I buy their private label stuff.
Flame away, guys and gals.
John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ
http://www.healey6.com
-----Original Message-----
From: John Sims [mailto:ahbn6@verizon.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 8:06 PM
To: 'S and T Miller'; 'healeys@autox.team.net'
Subject: RE: [Healeys] spin on filter update
Not all filters are the same and some can actually do some damage. Please
take a look at:
http://people.msoe.edu/~yoderw/oilfilterstudy/oilfilterstudy.html
John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ
http://www.healey6.com
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of S and T Miller
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 7:42 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] spin on filter update
I posted on here asking if anyone experienced a slight drop in oil pressure
with the spin on oil filter conversion. Thank you for the responses I
received. It seemed though that no one said that they experienced the same
drop in pressure. So I decided to put the canister filter back on with a
new filter while changing nothing else. Well it seems that the original
canister filter has slightly better oil pressure then the spin on filter
with a Super Tech (Wal mart) filter installed. Now it makes me wonder if it
is the filter adaptor or the cheap filter? Do different brands effect the
pressure? The canister filter holds much more oil and is much larger, is
that why- less restriction?
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