Oil Filter


So I discover viewing videos on Yoo Boob Toob of oil filter quality. The site host videos of folks cutting into oil filter, counting pleats, rating the check valve seals, and weighing the filter elements assembly ...

That FRAM uses cardboard in the construction of the filter elements is bothersome. Even the Extra Guard versions.

I'd always used the Frame PH-8A as it is larger, more filter area, for the 240s I'd had with manual transmission. (No auto transmission oil cooler lines.) Same model for the B30 in 164. Though I forget the OEM vendor oil filter and model number. I don't have my 164 green books here.

Frame used to offer the PH16 for Volvo 240 76+. The replacement is even smaller in the last dozen or more years.

Yet I read of quality problems with Wix of the much touted Mann filters (model W 917?)? I'm unsure.

I use Mobil 1 10W40 in all three 1990, 91, & 92 240s.

Fram Orange Cans of Death:
http://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31757

So, for a normally aspired non-turbo 240 air filter, you can't find one at the WAL*MART or the Autozone off the shelf. The Air Filter for 240 is Volvo PN 9438216 (or 1326352)

Here's the Tasca offering:

http://www.tascaparts.com/oe-volvo/463505

Cross Reference with Fram PH8A
http://www.oilfilter-crossreference.com/convert/Fram/PH8A

Cross Reference versus Wix:
http://www.wixfilters.com/Lookup/Exactmatch.aspx?PartNo=ph8a

Mann is W917.



iPd USA has em, also



Volvo PN Volvo 3517857 is OEM.



Air Filter



Who makes such a filter, than as OEM?

iPd offers Mahle mode LX 59 brand as the better option. They also offer Mann filter. And a third, cheaper filter.

https://www.ipdusa.com/products/5367/112441-engine-air-filter-1976-1993-240-non-turbo



So:
- I want to use a Fram PH8A filter that is not made by Fram anymore. Just want the larger size filter that uses steel constructions and good check valve, plenty or pleats, blah, blah. For manual transmission 240.

- What air filter brand do you use for normally aspired 240.



And now I have a passenger side rear Bilstein Touring that is knocking. Hopefully something if loose, I guess? I did not tighten it enough on the green 1992 240 GL??



Since 2012, after a new timing belt and new strut mounts on the 1990 240 li'l red wagon, from the miles on the timing belt sticker, I've put only 5000 miles on it in four years?



Oh, and now we have a 1992 Volvo 240 Wagon *5 Speed* - $2300 on the good ol stinky, yet slimy, st. louis craigslist.

https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/5647101844.html













Huh, some rust there in the engine bay, hhwhut. Rust in the stinky St. Louis rusty belt.


"Only 2 small rust spots: 1 below the windshield and 1 around one of the roof rack mounting points. Mileage shows roughly 255,000 miles but the odometer does not work."

I can barely care for the three I have now as it is.



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