USA Made Filters

I'm sure Fram was a good product at one time but that wasn't the case by the 90's,  when you want to sell cheap in the discount retailers quality isn't a priority.

Frams first fix was the string glued around the middle the second was a tin bypass at the bottom that set in a hole in the filter paper end, ya that let the oil by when their crap paper was plugged.  If they used the exact same paper as wix, baldwin, fleetguard, etc, they would be worthless still,  if I remember right a 51061 wix had 51 folds of paper and the same fram had 14.  The good filters have a coil spring bypass that is damn stout.  Fram is junk trust me, I wouldn't put them on a worn out motor that was burning 2 quarts a mile if I just wanted to drive it to the junk yard.

I worked my way through college in a repair shop/parts store and we sold Wix filters, once a year we had a filter sale/customer appreciate day and there was a slug of various filters with a multitude of different applications cut open on display so you could see quality of what's in that tin can and the Fram was only on the display table so our customers got a good laugh and something to talk about when they ate.

Well Well Well, Tbone,  Luckily for me I didn't have to scrape buy on that little.  I got paid $6 hr and when I was working vehicles, tractors, equipment  they billed me out at $30/hr, but the boss fed me supper every night and I could eat, come to think of it he probably loss money when I worked for him.

The boss had the part/repair shop and farmed,  he died 1 year after I left college, 24 years ago and I still farm his ground to this day, so I shouldn't be complaining.  He was a good man, never saw him get mad.  His wife is my neighbor and I still look out for her to this day.  She's 91 and has been like a second mother to me.  Good people are few and far between today.