Thunderbirdsport
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Motorcraft (or Wix, or Purolator) filters, and full syn oil is all that ever go into my engines, and if you want yours to last, that's what I recommend. I've rebuilt several engines (all Ford) that were ran with fram and cheap oil...two of those were lubed exclusively with trop arctic. That oil isn't fit to be used as fire starter at the brush pile IMHO.
I'm with navi on this....Motorcraft filters are the king. I remember reading an article a few years ago, MC filters are made either by purolator or wix and rebranded. Delco is the same way.
There's also a video, guy had quite a few different brands of filters, cut them all open for comparison. As expected, fram was absolute trash and didn't have the anti drainback, the filter element was crappy paper, and the thing just looked like it was made for pennies.
I had a failed 5.0 that was well known to me (did all the routine stuff on the truck) due to fram/cheap oil. Got a rod knock at 190K, I sourced a good engine from a wrecked truck, owner decided to just spend the extra to rebuild the bad one. Took a couple of new rods and had to have the crank worked on, but once it was done, he agreed to my suggestion of OEM filters and better lube and the truck now has over 300K and runs as strong as the day the new engine was installed. He passed in 2006 and I bought that very truck at the estate sale and gave it to a friend about a year later when his car got backed into at a truck stop and totalled.
I also had a modular engine in a Mark VIII that had some issues with noise, we did some work on it and made some changes and it's been as right as rain since then, going on 5 years now.
In fact, I did brakes and fluids on that car last week.
I'm with navi on this....Motorcraft filters are the king. I remember reading an article a few years ago, MC filters are made either by purolator or wix and rebranded. Delco is the same way.
There's also a video, guy had quite a few different brands of filters, cut them all open for comparison. As expected, fram was absolute trash and didn't have the anti drainback, the filter element was crappy paper, and the thing just looked like it was made for pennies.
I had a failed 5.0 that was well known to me (did all the routine stuff on the truck) due to fram/cheap oil. Got a rod knock at 190K, I sourced a good engine from a wrecked truck, owner decided to just spend the extra to rebuild the bad one. Took a couple of new rods and had to have the crank worked on, but once it was done, he agreed to my suggestion of OEM filters and better lube and the truck now has over 300K and runs as strong as the day the new engine was installed. He passed in 2006 and I bought that very truck at the estate sale and gave it to a friend about a year later when his car got backed into at a truck stop and totalled.
I also had a modular engine in a Mark VIII that had some issues with noise, we did some work on it and made some changes and it's been as right as rain since then, going on 5 years now.
In fact, I did brakes and fluids on that car last week.
