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pawoSD · #15 06-07-2008, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

I'd be surprised if they were not from the same factory as the 603's.

I have 270k miles on my engine and its as tight as any engine of that vintage can be. I'm still waiting for it to start buring oil.

They are junk, I had one and sawed it open after I had used it, it had junk in it just like the others.....not quite as much of the small debris stuff, but it still looked icky.

Frams seem to be the most clean inside. Hengst have gone downhill and are terrible and spew flakes of pine cones and cotton plant all over from the bypass section's holes. So far only the Bosch and Fram filters have seemed clean enough to use. However, Baldwin makes a very very good filter for the 617....so I will be moving to those when we run out of our inventory.

Also, the dealer filters are like $18 now....insanity. Even the very high quality Baldwin (made in USA) filters are only like $13-14ish.....