Re: badger pistons and Fram filters

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

The way manufactured items usually fail isn't 'every one is bad' but
'there are N bad parts out of every 100,000'. I'm sure most people NEVER
see a failed Fram -- I never did. I bet I could use 'em for the rest of
my life and never see a bad one, it's like tossing dice.

Outright failures aside, when you see one taken apart, and compared to
say NAPA's Gold line or whatever (NAPA has a counter display with both
cut out; I hope NAPAs are still made the way the show :-) you can really
see the cut-corners on the Fram part.

I don't buy lottery tickets either, I'm not a gambling man... even when
the odds look good. To each their own though!


On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:52, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> All this talk reminds me of the talk concerning Fram
> oil filters. Everyone has horror stories about the
> evil Fram but I run them exclusively (unless someone
> has a sale on another brand) and I have never had a
> bad experience. But of course I guess in 30 plus years
> of buying Frams I guess I get the one lone good one.
> Right now I have 3 PH11s on my shelf.
> My suggestion with the badgers is to check them real
> close and send em back if anything looks funny. Cross
> drill the crank and chamfer the holes if you want, do
> the magic to the cam gear. Maybe drill another hole
> for the oils return as some have done. I think
> expertise in a rebuild and attention to details is
> more important that the brand of piston. As with
> anything, though, your results will be different than
> your neighbors......Russ
> 
> 
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