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Seem like I have the Worst Luck!!

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Jiles

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For many years, I have used only Wix Filters. In most cases, I order a supply for all my equipment and vehicles from RockAuto, to be ready when needed
Some time back, I ordered four filters for one of my tractors, got down to the last one and it is defective!!
Had to go to town to purchase another filter!
The defect was that there is a thin washer shaped item sticking out about a quarter of an inch just below the threads inside the filter!
From now on, I will double check ALL items when received!
 
For some reason that panics me. I check the filter number
about 10 times and look at the filter. I'm the same way about
draining oil. I can just imagine draining the oil, being called
away somehow and someone else starting the tractor without
oil. It happened to a cousin when his wife hopped into the car
to go to the store when he was washing his hands. She made
it a mile with no oil.

Are the filters at Rockauto enough cheaper that the shipping
evens it out?
 
(quoted from post at 17:03:10 07/12/14) Jiles: If that's what you consider to be bad luck,
man you have it made.
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That, in itself, isn't serious. It's the combination of happenings that make it bad for me. Not enough room for a list!
Really more surprised to find a defective Wix filter, although defects can happen to anything mass produced.
 
(quoted from post at 09:03:10 07/12/14) Jiles: If that's what you consider to be bad luck,
man you have it made.
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x2, i'd trade luck with you any day.
it's a good habit to get into checking stuff AND contents before you leave the store.
 

[b:2226f4a31a]Are the filters at Rockauto enough cheaper that the shipping
evens it out?
[/b:2226f4a31a]
No--it would not be practical to buy one or two. When I place an order, it's at least $100.00 or more and usually contains hard parts for car or truck.
In most cases, filters are from one to two dollars cheaper then parts houses but replacement auto/truck parts are much cheaper in nearly every case.
 
One has to wonder how many out there would have went to the local O'Reilly's and bought this Wix filter; and then returned the defective Wix filter bought from rock auto to O'Reilly's on their next trip to town; rather than going threw the trouble to return it to rock auto.
 
My ex-wife took my 78 ford f250 with the 400 v8 all the way to town and back in 1981 without oil. 10 miles each way. I had drained the oil and forgot the barrel was empty so I told her to go to town the get some and went to the barn to work. She walked right past the car, slammed the hood on the truck and went to town. When she got back she came into the barn and told me that the truck was smoking. LOL I put oil in it and ran it for several years, but it ran like crap. This very same ex-wife filled it with diesel once too. Eventually put a new engine in it and a week later a guy I had working for me took it home at night and went drinking and rolled it over. Now that was a bad luck truck.
 
Yesterday I had GOOD luck with a small engine carb for probably the first time in my life. Bought an old Troy Built tiller with a Tecumseh engine that ran like crap. Took the carb off, found out it was very rusted inside, boiled it in straight muriatic acid for 30 seconds, washed and blew it out , threw in a simple carb kit, put it together and it runs like a top. I was expecting to have to search for another carb. Jim
 
Changed all the filters on my Oliver 1655 this spring. Put a new glass fuel filter on it and fooled for an hour trying to prime it. Fuel filter was bad on the inside, filled it and couldn't even blow fuel through it with air!
 
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