Given the importance of using high quality filters in your truck, and with so many cheap (scary) knockoff filters sold online, here is our quick OEM FILTERS BUYER’S GUIDE…
COUNTERFEIT FILTERS – BUYERS, BEWARE.
Category: Oil
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The installation dude moved the oil valve to the “open” position. He failed to close the valve.
Dodge/Cummins Oil Filter Buyer’s Guide – Part One: Parts is Parts Right?
Oil filters? Who cares? Just grab a filter from the auto supply store or Wal-Mart and put it on when you change the oil. That rugged Cummins diesel engine under the hood of your Ram won’t notice the difference right? Maybe so, maybe not. Are you willing to be the service life of your diesel engine on just any oil filter, or do you want the best protection for your engine? Going with the lowest bidder makes sense if all the suppliers sell the same item, like copier paper. But…
Read Dodge/Cummins Oil Filter Buyer’s Guide – Part Two: Oil Filter Comparison
In our Part One segment we had TDR writer Arden Kysely evaluate the construction of an oil filter. In doing so, he introduced us to a patented filter media (trade name StrataPore) that is made by Cummins’ subsidiary company, Cummins Filtration. In Part Two of our oil filter discussion TDR writer John Martin gets out the filter cutting tool and does a visual examination of 10 different oil filters. Who offers the most expensive filter? Who offers the least expensive filter? Which filter is the best value? We checked the…