check out this Old Azz Fram filter

[Deez-67]

My grandfather help start what we know now a days as Fram Filters. He is now 93 and battling alzheimer's disease. My grandmother is getting older also and she has been passing down some of there stuff to me.

bla bla blaaa check out this old azz "cartridge" I found in one of the boxes of stuff she sent home.

The side reads "genuine FRAM victory cartridge. Saves metal for unlcle same."

anyways I found it kind of cool and along with that I got allllll kind of Fram memorabilia

 

[HitandRunDriver]

Looks like its made out of cardboard, is it? Sorry to hear about your grandfather

 

[Deez-67]

Looks like its made out of cardboard, is it? Sorry to hear about your grandfather

Yeah it is... lol


and thanks, part of life.

 

[cody2639]

That's cool. Crazy to see how far technology has come in a relatively short time

 

[Shotokan1509]

That is really cool

 

[Irishman]

What a great conversation piece. That would be on my mantle, well until my wife saw it and asked why I keep taking down pictures of her family and putting car shit on the mantle haha.

 

[46Tbird]

That's awesome, it probably belongs in a museum. There are a lot of artifacts of the war itself, but not a lot of the daily use items of the people back home.

 

[stkjock]

that's a cool thing to have.

 

[Mike K]

"Change cartridge when oil on dipstick appears dirty"

Wow things were simple back then. Lol

 

[dmhines]

Cool .. I knew that Car Production stopped during the war because they needed both the metal and the factory workers. I had no idea that they were using cardboard instead of metal for oil filters ...

 

[46Tbird]

??

Cardboard is still used in filters. Cut open a brand new Fram filter and check it out.

 

[46Tbird]

Oops, I think you're talking about the filter case itself. That is unusual.

 

[HitandRunDriver]

Yeah, it's a cartridge filter so I believe it dropped into a metal cylinder. We're used to the metal housing because it is fitted externally and cardboard would obviously leak slightly....

 

[Shotokan1509]

I believe some Audi's still use a cartridge only, not self enclosed filter

 

[Deez-67]

I figured you guys would dig it... unlike the old ladie. lol

 

[dark steed]

Great piece of history there!.
MB's have used cartridge filters for years, still do as far as I know. I know the '86 300TD and '01 E320 did for a fact...

 

[imsuchahotdog]

thats real cool. i know what you mean. Alzheimer is pretty bad. no lie, but my grandfather is 102, going on 103 this April, but he is just gone now. enjoy him while a conversation can still be had.

 

[Scott_0]

thats a very cool piece to have!

 

[Downs]

I believe some Audi's still use a cartridge only, not self enclosed filter

My 04 Ion Redline used a cartridge filter that loaded into the top of the block. It was kind a PITA to install around the supercharger.