Fram ultra syn filters are great. I use them on just about everything i have if fram ultra. When i switched from regular wix to the fram ultra i could tell how much cleaner my oil was on my mower. Mind you i change it every 50hrs. But with the wix and fram xg3614 running 10hrs on each i could tell the oil still looked new on the fram vs the wix was already browning.
The Valvoline engineers explain how this product is a SLOW cleaner. It takes around 4 oil changes to clean an engine. This is what you want. I think the bone heads on UA-cam complaining have engines that are about to grenade like you point out
Even that one channel that claimed the filter was clogged was click bait because the filter was not clogged. He just noticed a lot of crud in the filter. But he never compressed the media to squeeze all the oil out. So all you could see what oil on top of some dark spots in the crevices of the filter media.
@kirkdarling4120 it definitely cleans out the sludge to an extent but sludge tends to build up on the oil pan after it gets cleaned off of the top end of the engine. Unless you use diesel or something, sludge will not dilute into circulation again. Maybe it'll dilute enough to drain to the pan but not enough to make it past the oil filter.
You were premature I’m guessing but better safe than sorry. I was quite worried having seen another video. I don’t know what his oil change intervals were but they must have been very long historically. Unless the vehicle has been abused, I’m feeling pretty confident about 5k intervals or somewhat less like I usually run. The same oil in my daughter’s RX-350 still looks quite acceptable at 3,500. I am inclined to wait until nearly 5k to change her oil and filter based on what I’ve seen.
Our eyes can see about 100 microns. If there’s excessive deposits they are going to build. I did not detect that. And the bypass valve was not opened. Even with a microscope what are you going to see? Perhaps some filter media clogged? Does that mean it’s all clogged? I’m perfectly comfortable with what I saw, and my opinion is in my vehicles run to 5k miles. This is one data point.
Fram ultra syn filters are great. I use them on just about everything i have if fram ultra. When i switched from regular wix to the fram ultra i could tell how much cleaner my oil was on my mower. Mind you i change it every 50hrs. But with the wix and fram xg3614 running 10hrs on each i could tell the oil still looked new on the fram vs the wix was already browning.
The Valvoline engineers explain how this product is a SLOW cleaner. It takes around 4 oil changes to clean an engine. This is what you want. I think the bone heads on UA-cam complaining have engines that are about to grenade like you point out
Exactly. And they don't even claim anything other than cleaning piston rings...not sludge, or they'd certainly advertise that.
Spot on comment
Even that one channel that claimed the filter was clogged was click bait because the filter was not clogged. He just noticed a lot of crud in the filter. But he never compressed the media to squeeze all the oil out. So all you could see what oil on top of some dark spots in the crevices of the filter media.
@kirkdarling4120 it definitely cleans out the sludge to an extent but sludge tends to build up on the oil pan after it gets cleaned off of the top end of the engine. Unless you use diesel or something, sludge will not dilute into circulation again. Maybe it'll dilute enough to drain to the pan but not enough to make it past the oil filter.
I wouldn't use a Fram filter.
Good to know, out of precaution I changed my R&S out at 850 miles but the next one I will go longer
You were premature I’m guessing but better safe than sorry. I was quite worried having seen another video. I don’t know what his oil change intervals were but they must have been very long historically. Unless the vehicle has been abused, I’m feeling pretty confident about 5k intervals or somewhat less like I usually run. The same oil in my daughter’s RX-350 still looks quite acceptable at 3,500. I am inclined to wait until nearly 5k to change her oil and filter based on what I’ve seen.
Sacrificial Framb
How can you say go five thousand by just looking at the filter lol. You have microscope eyes ?
Our eyes can see about 100 microns. If there’s excessive deposits they are going to build. I did not detect that. And the bypass valve was not opened. Even with a microscope what are you going to see? Perhaps some filter media clogged? Does that mean it’s all clogged? I’m perfectly comfortable with what I saw, and my opinion is in my vehicles run to 5k miles. This is one data point.