Been a regular user of Royal Purple for some time now, and NO!! this is not a plug for the product or mfgr. I went with them because they offered both the oil and the matching filters and I had reached the point with my motors where decomposed dino sh*t didn't seem to be oil enough, if that statement makes sense of sorts.
On my last visit to my local indie Speed Shop the counter rep advised me that the Purple People were phasing out their line of filters, which knowledge bummed me out severely. Now, before anyone suggests "Fr**, not only NO! but Hell NO!!. Ever since they elected to put that tar and sand mixture on their filter bodies as some of get a grip aid, plus supposedly gone offshore with their manufacturing, I have shunned them. The last filter of that brand that I ever used had to be chiseled off the motor using a long drift punch and hammer as it flat refused to budge any other way and lacked the ability to accept a normal filter can socket.
At the shop, I was shown a K an** filter which has a sheet metal hex nut tack welded to its bottom that a socket would get placed on during that last 1/2-3/4 turn for snug. That scares me. My name isn't Ah-nie but I know for a fact that if I fit Long Arm with the correct 6 pt socket and put him to the task of removing that filter, there is an even money chance that that puny piece of tinfoil will get torn off before the filter budges and am not using the two grunts and a groan method of tightening up them either. Plus, in all this, I am not all that sure where they assemble their filters. Can anyone suggest a good old AMERICAN MADE Oil Filter that I can go out and buy? I'd even take a genuine made in Taiwan item because they have at least gotten the bugs out of most of their industries and anything that I buy that doesn't end up putting my money in Mao Se Yuan Hung Low's pocket makes me happy.
Nick
On my last visit to my local indie Speed Shop the counter rep advised me that the Purple People were phasing out their line of filters, which knowledge bummed me out severely. Now, before anyone suggests "Fr**, not only NO! but Hell NO!!. Ever since they elected to put that tar and sand mixture on their filter bodies as some of get a grip aid, plus supposedly gone offshore with their manufacturing, I have shunned them. The last filter of that brand that I ever used had to be chiseled off the motor using a long drift punch and hammer as it flat refused to budge any other way and lacked the ability to accept a normal filter can socket.
At the shop, I was shown a K an** filter which has a sheet metal hex nut tack welded to its bottom that a socket would get placed on during that last 1/2-3/4 turn for snug. That scares me. My name isn't Ah-nie but I know for a fact that if I fit Long Arm with the correct 6 pt socket and put him to the task of removing that filter, there is an even money chance that that puny piece of tinfoil will get torn off before the filter budges and am not using the two grunts and a groan method of tightening up them either. Plus, in all this, I am not all that sure where they assemble their filters. Can anyone suggest a good old AMERICAN MADE Oil Filter that I can go out and buy? I'd even take a genuine made in Taiwan item because they have at least gotten the bugs out of most of their industries and anything that I buy that doesn't end up putting my money in Mao Se Yuan Hung Low's pocket makes me happy.
Nick
