The Devil Made Me Do It

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Found a great deal on this 25' Checkmate, 96 hour 502, Bravo 1, 60+mph. So I decided to upgrade my day boat from an 18' Donzi:

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No offense, but I would rather have the Donzi.

Something about the 16 and 18 Donzi that screams forever classic.
 
Ge rid of that Fram cheapo oil filter! Protect that big beautiful engine.
 
Sweet,

Nice boat. I like the matching name painted on the trailer. I probably wouldn't know what to do at 60 MPH....
 
Soooo.... what are you doing with the Donzi? I keep telling the admiral we need a litle sumptin to have at the dock to run out for a sammich on....
 
Nice. Needs a new spark arrestor....

Philly: Whats wrong with the Fram and what do you recommend? Just curious.
 
The highrise Edelbrock manifold causes the hatch ram to press on the flame arrestor. Gonna get a new arrestor and hopefully reposition the ram a little bit. That motor runs strong. Donzi closes on ebay today.
 
Nice boat Glenn. Thanks for the pics! You can install a mast and sails later.
 
Paul, honestly I don't know that there's anything "wrong" with fram. I had a friend that was into hotrods longer than I've been alive. When my back was really bad from my car accident in 96 he changed my oil for me and gave me "hall" over the fram filter. He put a K&N on it and I've used K&N on my boat and trucks ever since. I have no real idea if there's anything different (except the price!) but since he's been pulling apart and building engines forever and used it, so do I.
 
Thanks Ken. I remember reading an article a couple years ago that claimed that Frams were good filters, but that K&N and Mobil-1 filters were the best. I thought maybe you had heard new news about them in which case I would stop using them.
 
Regarding the Fram filters - On an around-the-continent trip in '03 with my new Dodge diesel truck and camper I had the oil changed in the Cummins diesel at an independent shop in a small town in eastern Saskatchewan, Canada and continured on. It turned out that they'd installed a Fram oil filter. Fine, I had no problem with it. When I got to South Carolina, it was time for an oil change again, so took it to a dealer there. When I went to pick up my truck, the service manager followed me out and told me there was a directive from Chrysler that denied warranty coverage on a failed engine that was found to have a Fram oil filter. A few years later a mechanic at a dealer in AZ told me there had been a few instances of the filter element coming loose inside the housing and restricting or stopping oil flow.

I've used Fram filters off and on all my life with no problems - up till then - and I'm sure many of you have, too, but this is straight from 2 different dealers. Right or wrong, I've stopped using Fram filters.

Lar.
 
There was an oil filter study/test done (you can google it and find it) and the results were that the lower end (orange) Fram filters performed the worst. Wix and Purolator ranked high.
 
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