I picked one up at auto zone. they looked it up on the computer and gave me what they said is the right one. It is a flat, almost sqaure looking filter. I thought it was going to be a screw on type (like the oil filter). Before I drop the tranny pan, and get stranded without a vehicle, is this the right type of filter?

it looks like the part number might be: FRAM: FT1206

 

They are flat and square looking. I don't know that I would run a Fram though. I'd go get one from the dealer or order from genos garage.

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thanks! what are the problems with FRAM?

 

Fram have a bad rap for clogging and letting things through that should not

 

There's nothing wrong with Fram filters. Their cheapest filter is as bad as anyone else's junk, and their good ones are as good as anyone else's too.

Just another Internet myth.

 

Wrong,-----

I personally have had one plug up and the oil pressure go to ZERO!!! and I have had one plug up and blow up like a ballon and cover everything with oil!!!

 

Guess you must've bought the cheap ones.

For evey Internet myth monger there's thousands of people been using them for decades with no problem whatsoever. Honeywell (parent company) didn't get the lion's share of that market starting back in the day by making junk. That's also the reason why the myth is perpetuated. because with the lion's share of the market they also have a proprtionately higher share of the failures. Any mass produced product like that has some level of failure rate. That's just how it goes. The cheap ones do suck, relatively speaking.

Sorry, but however, you sir, are the one who is wrong. Not all Frams are created equal, and even the cheap ones will perform fine in the intended application, for the most part.

 

I'll run a WIX filter if you don't mind. And when it comes to oil filters everyone has their own opinion and we won't run FRAM on anything we own, even the blown Alky engines in the boat and car.

 

I use Wix, too. Frams tend to be expensive for what you get. You can get good prices on Wix at Filter1.com. Set up an account and free shipping for orders over $50.

Don't use their fuel filters in the Dodge, tho - it'll explode in a million pieces!

Just keeping the myths alive....

 

I cannot speak for the FRAM tranny filter. But I can speak up on the oil filters.
One of the parts stores in Courtenay BC was a FRAM supplier. One day he took a FRAM, Purlator, Donaldson and couple other oil filters and cut them open to see what they looked like inside. Once he did that he stopped selling FRAM. The media inside was much less then the others, the bypass was just a cheap flapper of cardboard and there were a few other issues.

He approached the Dealer about this and they said they have always built them like them like that.

Do it yourself you will be surprised what a cheaper filter looks like and why it is cheaper.

I use to buy my Tranny filters from the dealership they only cost $20 or so.

 

What model Fram was it? Compared to what model Purolator, Donaldson, etc, etc? Most manufacturers have at least three quality/price strata in their lineups.

Apples to Apples, please....

 

Not really, I tend to spend more money on filter than I have to, I have been building engines and transmissions for years and certainly understand quality. If it had been one filter, OK, but two, no way. I suspect you work for them or have a vested interest. I have been using another brand of filters for years and have not had a problem. When the one filter ballooned I sent it to FRAM, they said that my oil pump must have spiked, to well over 300psi, not so, I was in the car watching the gauges, my father was under the hood watching the engine for leaks, I had made some fuel system changes. He started hollering to shut it down the minute he noticed engine oil all over the place.

So to your arrogance, FRAM is junk in my book and the odds have proven that to me.

 

Wait, I thought FRAM made good filters and now you are using something else?????

And now your arrogance shows through again, who said the "EXPLODE", my statement was it ballooned, which it did.

So maybe there is someting to the FRAM issue??

 

pretty sure the fasteners for that filter are torx, T25 size in case ya had fluid runnin down your arm wonderin what the heck holds it in there......

 

The only thing to the FRAM issue is people who don't understand filters but like to talk about them in the form of spreading myths and misinformation. The fuel filter comment was not directed at you.

So McMopar, what was the specific FRAM model you used, and exactly how do you attribute the failure to the filter? I suppose building engines makes you a filter expert? "I had a filter go bad, the sky is fallling, the sky is falling!"

I wonder what's going to show through who now. Hmmmmm, can't wait...