My login is helm:
I just registered to this forum today, 4/26/09
I wanted to share with all of you that putting bearing grease on your oil filter gasket instead of oil will stop it from leaking as well as making it much easier to remove the next time you change the filter.

 

Welcome.

I use a dab of oil on the oil filter gasket, and i've never had an oil filter gasket leak on my truck or any other vehicle for that matter. I've only ever had one filter that was hard to remove, and that was due to over-tightening. I don't think I would use bearing grease.

 

i honestly never thought someone would have a name that close to mine, lol. welcome

 

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I did an oil change on a friends RAM this weekend, only to find not 1, not 2, but 3 old rubber oil filter gaskets all wadded up around the sealing surface that an "oil change franchise store" had managed to pass over the past 3 times they dropped the oil out of it.

Unreal, no wonder it was leaking.

 

Hmm... Let me take a stab and say your buddy had fram filters? That is the only oil filter company I have ever seen the gasket come off on three different occasions. I refuse to use fram filters for that reason. If they lack quality just to hold the gasket on that no other company seems to have a problem with, then.... where else does fram cut corners. I'd rather not find out. I only use wix filters and have never had one problem with them.

 

Winner Winner! haha. I havent had bad luck with Fram personally, but I have run into a few guys who have less than positive stories about them. I actually switched to a Motorfcraft filter (blasphemy, I know) and have had good luck.

I dont imagine on a low-compression 360 you'd ever blow one apart, but I had a 13:1 SBC that nuked a FRAM once, kinda been staying away from them since then.

 

Save a buck and buy a Purolator Premium Plus filter. It is the same thing as a Motorcraft without the embarising Ford decals under a Dodge hood.
I will only run WIX or NAPA Gold filters.

I post this way too much.
http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oil....html#champion

 

Point Taken

 

i will say ive used fram. ive used mobile 1 and a wix filter. cant say a bad thing about any of them really left the rubber seal from all of them