Here's the last MC FL820 I'll ever use, which came off my Mustang 4.6 3V, which sees a fair bit of track use and daily driving.
I was running Castrol Edge 5W30. Oil has only been in since October 2015 and the car sat for the winter, so no cold weather starts.
Not too impressed.
Wow... that is one sorry looking filter. The pleat spacing reminds me of the OCOD's before Fram stepped up their QC.
Now here's where things start getting worse..
I noticed some glue on the end caps, so I gave a very, very gentle pull, and off came the whole cap, and out fell a bunch of chunks of hardened glue. I've never been able to pull off an end cap so easily. I easily tore off the whole filter element with my hands. No tools required. Never been able to do that on any other filters I've cut. Yikes. Note that the glue on the top of the filter element was cracked when I removed the end cap.
Hopefully there aren't any chunks of glue in my engine now.
Say what you will about MC filters, but this has completely turned me off from using an FL820 ever again.
I was running Castrol Edge 5W30. Oil has only been in since October 2015 and the car sat for the winter, so no cold weather starts.
Not too impressed.
Wow... that is one sorry looking filter. The pleat spacing reminds me of the OCOD's before Fram stepped up their QC.
Now here's where things start getting worse..
I noticed some glue on the end caps, so I gave a very, very gentle pull, and off came the whole cap, and out fell a bunch of chunks of hardened glue. I've never been able to pull off an end cap so easily. I easily tore off the whole filter element with my hands. No tools required. Never been able to do that on any other filters I've cut. Yikes. Note that the glue on the top of the filter element was cracked when I removed the end cap.
Hopefully there aren't any chunks of glue in my engine now.
Say what you will about MC filters, but this has completely turned me off from using an FL820 ever again.
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