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Maxwell1815, So are you saying the micron results on Wix is better then Fram?
Think I might splurge for a set of spin on fuel filters for Christmas. Was out exercising the deuce last weekend and when I returned home I was playing musical vehicles and letting the deuce idle. I went over to shutdown the deuce and drain the air tanks and low an behold it wasn't running. Never done that before.
I jumped in and pressed the starter button. Engine spins nice and fast but not a hint of cylinder firing. Not a hint of smoke at all from the stack. In tank pump is running. Opened bleeder on the secondary / final filter mount and nothing. Just replaced in tank pump last year with a new one that can't have the bottom fall apart so I felt pretty sure that wasn't the problem. So I figure start with the filters. After spending about 45 minutes in the dark (had a drop light) changing filters and gaskets I hit the master switch and in about 15 ~ 20 seconds the fuel comes blowing out the bleeder like old faithful. I let the in tank pump run about a minute and pressed the starter button and the engine purrs to life in 2 ~ 3 revolutions. Moral of the story is with the original cartridge filters that I have this would have been a big PITA if it didn't happen in my driveway. Just my 
Yeah, WIX uses tighter filtration media, which results in the ability to filter at a smaller particle level.
Sorry as a professional mechanic i have seen the disintegration of filter media in fram filters. I will concede that it only happens on vehicles that are poorly maintained. But why pay a preimun price for a filter that preforms worse than Wixs or Napas second line filters. I will also add i use and like Allied Signal products except for their filters. when i had my auto parts store i had a wix, fram, Kragens store brand and a pro tec which is wixs generic line cut open on display. the only filter with poorer and less filtering media was the Kragens filter. but it did have a string around the middle with a pretty bow knot tied in it. FOR WHAT YOU PAY FRAM IS JUNK. Just that, it is over priced second line stuff.Fram gets a bad rap from some guy who posted on the internet when he took one apart.
Most of the time people complain about the cardboard bottom and glue. They then tell stories that the cardboard comes apart and the engine blows up, killing all small children in a 3 block radius.
The fact is that FRAM filters are just as good as any other filter. Many engineers have debunked the cardboard claim with facts and the jist is that:
1. cardboard is paper.
2. filter elements are paper
3. If cardboard is so bad (ie it melts in the presence of oil) then ALL paper based elements are bad for the same reason.
I'm sure there are 'parts snobs' that only use Mobile 1 or Royal Purple 110% synthetic oil and change it every 100 milesthese guys are usually the loudest and least informed. Youtube is full of insta-engineers that have had NO problems with the FRAM filter till they opened one up.
OK, run with that.
Where are the youtube videos of all these 'disintegrated' FRAM fitlers? Its a myth like GL5/MT-1 lubes insta destroy brass parts.
