re: Auto Board: FRAM Oil Filters have started becoming Unobtanium

Not being snarky, but the whole Toyota having manufacturing problems with engines is now to a point that it's throwing rocks in a glass house if you try to call out another make. That's been common knowledge for a while and my household has Toyota, GM, and Ford in the driveway too. As for the whole Titan thing, I made the mistake of repeating something I read as a member of TitanTalk a loooong time ago but my point still stood, the Titans had absolutely weak transmissions and rear axles even at the factory power levels.

BigFilta tooling y’all.

Break away from the eternal dependency and go filterless.

It’s beautiful here on the free flowing side!!!!

Exactly, filterless and a magnetic drain plug is all you need.

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I imagine that whatever brand those zippy oil change places use is the worst oil filter brand.

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That is if they even bother to change the filter in the first place. Don't think for a minute it doesn't happen.

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Exactly, filterless and a magnetic drain plug is all you need.

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I’d reckon this technology is what initially led to moterearl filtration.

Oil change intervals are merely suggestions anyhow.

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If anything I would say Toyota is more of an actual screw up.

Ford and GM is more of a refusal to admit thin oils are causing problems

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Ford has had its problems with defective parts (valves on the 2.7 for one) and cam phasers (though the instances of phaser failures with correct oil change intervals and the right oil are pretty low).

GM has an AFM problem that is partially mitigated by by changing oil weight which ALSO changes the way the electro-hydraulic variable cam timing system behaves. This has nothing to do with the oil being "too thin" for the bearings, it has everything to do with changing the max loads those bearings see by lopping the ends off the cam advance/retard curve with a heavier oil.

Please stop repeating the "thin oil" myth. Film strength of a modern 0W-20 synthetic is FAR beyond that of any dino oil that your daddy used 20 years ago.

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I simply don't understand how a modified dana 44 with larger axles and a higher spline count could be considered considered weak.

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There was a picture taken at a Nissan dealership where a pile of new Titan rear axles assemblies were piled up next to a dumpster, some still in the wooden shipping crates. Dana 44's aren't much of a step stronger than GM 10-bolts which are not particularly strong of themselves.

Fram aren't that great.

I've used motocraft filters for eons, no issues. Just tough to find sometimes.