Re: In a word, FRAM Oil Filters SUCK!

["therealdmcvegas" <DMCVegas@xxxx>]

Yes, the D did over heat last time. I blew a hose on the water pump. 
But the needle never reached 240°F on the gauge. It came close, but 
it didn't hit. (it was 2AM, no cars around, so I pulled right into 
the Stratosphere parking lot). When I first got my D, I blew the 
otterstat, and that time the temp almost hit 260°F! But, at that time 
I had a Valvoline oil filter installed, and it looked fine. Every 
other filter on the D has always come off by hand w/o the use of a 
tool. And because of the harsh temps here in the desert, I ALWAYS run 
Castrol GTX 20w50.

I do appriciate the advice, and the comments. And I do mean all! :) I 
figure to clean everything out, I'll probably run a little chemtool 
thru with some cheap oil to clean out the motor. Benefit of the doubt 
against myself, I'll always be careful to make sure that I don't over 
tighten the filters from now on. But like I said, I never had this 
problem before...

--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "dmcman82" <dmcman73@xxxx> wrote:
> Has your D ever overheated? I've seen this before on another car 
> and it turned out that the car overheated and "cooked" the oil 
> inside of it. Made a big mess and the oil pretty much solidified 
> everywhere making it look like some sort of material when actually 
> it was the oil all hardened up. We took off the filter and it was 
> caked inside like from what I can see in your photos and also we 
> removed the valve covers and it was all caked on all over the valve 
> springs. Now I'm not saying your engine overheated but maybe the 
oil 
> you used was not heavy enough? I've used Fram filters on every one 
> of my cars for as long as I can remember and never saw that happen 
> before until my friends car overheated very badly.
> 
> Steve