Quote Originally Posted by techinspector1 View Post
I personally have never seen an oil pump fail, even on motors with in excess of 200,000 miles on them. What I was thinking when I answered above is that the filter element material is coming apart inside the filter and changing the characteristics of the operation of the filter, ala some Fram filters in the recent past. .
My thoughts exactly in my first post. I have seen little bits of fibrous crud that appears to be part of a filter in the oil. I didn't realize it was Fram specific and I have used the Fram ExtraGuard filters without issues.