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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 07:40:09 EST
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 I like Lynn Hanover's take on Fram... Friends don't let friends use
 Fram.  
 
 Mark S.
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Years ago, I worked for the Federal Government in a technical position. Sales 
people would stop by trying to sell anything from soup to nuts. I had noticed 
that when visiting various parts stores that there would be a Wix filter 
display on the counter.
It was two filters cut open with the guts loose inside so you could look at 
them.

I asked one of the filter salesmen about that display, and as if by magic one 
appeared on my desk. I only gave it away when I retired last year. 

One filter was the Fram PH8a, the other was the Wix cross part number. Ford 
style filters that nearly all remote stands are built to take. 

The Fram had 104 square inches of media with paper end caps and the seat 
spring was a bent piece of sheet metal. The metal doubler at the top was square 
and did not support the gasket all of the way around the top. 

The Wix (A division of Dana Corp.) had 416 square inches of media with metal 
end caps. The seat spring was a big spring. The top doubler was the same size 
as the top. The seat spring (my term) holds the element tight against the top 
gasket to maintain a good seal.

Both elements (all in general) flow outside in, and so have a metal center 
tube to prevent element collapse. 

I no longer have the spec sheets but if I remember correctly, the Wix had a 
much higher burst strength, low micronic rating, and lower pressure drop (delta 
"P") loaded and new. Wix and Champion build most of the aftermarket name 
filters (for those who think Kmart had a filter plant somewhere). 

When you look at a filter book, even the Wix book, it looks as though that 
company
 makes a huge number of filters for every application on earth. 

This is not the case. They make the stuff they are good at making and have 
contracts with other manufacturers to label for the stuff they don't make. So if 
a buyer specifies origin inspection (Inspect where manufactured) you might be 
in a Facet plant looking at a Wix fuel filter. Get it? 

Facet makes great fuel filters and water separators, and high tech aviation 
elements, and they make them for many other companies to fill their catalogs. 
Same with most of the big names. They will also make a spec filter for your 
company. If you order a couple of hundred thousand pieces. Put them in your box, 
and ship them to your warehouse.  

Lynn E. Hanover