Well Folks, I've been duped...
I knew that once upon a time Fram simply re-boxed the OEM Racor oil filter for the 6.0L Power stroke. I purchased some cheap Fram TG's off ebay & didn't remember that fact. This filter is 10 years old & that was around the time they did that reboxing. Still didn't click until after I removed the filter & then it dawned on me. I wouldn't have gone this far of mileage on an OEM filter had I remembered. Ford says no more than 7500 miles on this filter. Regardless, It still looks like it did an excellent job.
Moving onto the filter. I let it absorb into some shop towels 4 times with new ones over several days. The filter weighed 8.4 OZ by the time I was ready to call it quits. The photo's that show the media layed out is upside down. Meaning the darker side is the bottom of the filter while in the truck. I actually had one black fleck of debris attached to the magnet along with some shiny metal shavings while others had no effect with the magnet.
Coffee filter test left some dark film in the filter & the oil came to a slow trickle.
9,443 Miles w/Rotella 5w-40. If you want to see the UOA results, w/Particle Count, with this filter click here ---> Ford F-350 UOA
I knew that once upon a time Fram simply re-boxed the OEM Racor oil filter for the 6.0L Power stroke. I purchased some cheap Fram TG's off ebay & didn't remember that fact. This filter is 10 years old & that was around the time they did that reboxing. Still didn't click until after I removed the filter & then it dawned on me. I wouldn't have gone this far of mileage on an OEM filter had I remembered. Ford says no more than 7500 miles on this filter. Regardless, It still looks like it did an excellent job.
Moving onto the filter. I let it absorb into some shop towels 4 times with new ones over several days. The filter weighed 8.4 OZ by the time I was ready to call it quits. The photo's that show the media layed out is upside down. Meaning the darker side is the bottom of the filter while in the truck. I actually had one black fleck of debris attached to the magnet along with some shiny metal shavings while others had no effect with the magnet.
Coffee filter test left some dark film in the filter & the oil came to a slow trickle.
9,443 Miles w/Rotella 5w-40. If you want to see the UOA results, w/Particle Count, with this filter click here ---> Ford F-350 UOA