Oil filter question
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In several of the studies, there is a belief that if the media is thicker or a filter has more pleats, it is automatically better. That is far from the truth, there are several grades of media and thickness has little to due with performance. A filter with more pleats, usually has a lower grade media and is meeting performance specs with extra pleats. Some media sheets have a high first pass efficiency with poor capacity to hold contamination. It is a real balancing act. The best filters in the market are the filters with 100% synthetic media (amsoil / royal pruple / fleetguard / Luberfiner HD/ exc....) - most of these are large filters for commercial use. The Mobil 1 filter has a very good performance synthetic blend media, it is very good at it's price point. Most any filter out there is good enough to do the job, the dirty little secret in the industry is that a premium filter can't really be justified in the long run. Stay away from some of non name brand off-shore stuff - I have seen some that have very shoddy construction. All 4 of the major US filter manufactures make good filters, they all can be used with confidence.
I believe that one of the 4 major manufacturers filters that you mention makes a filter with so few pleats, and that media is so cheap and flimsy, that it would never be used in anything I own.
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there is a very good article at http://motorcycleinfo.calsi.com/Filters.html I will only use pure one or moble 1 or amsoil you can find #'s easy by looking for ford probe filter 1989-1997 it is the same size and cross ref. for sportsman 500-800. I use the pure one after reading article,look on internet bought them for under 5 bucks
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