Fram Filters on Sale At TSC

[Denny Clayton]

Where do you get the gaskets for these filters or do you make them?

I've always used NAPA filters that include the gaskets, but every time I change out a filter I look at the old gasket and think it is a shame to throw away a gasket that still looks like new. That being said I finally went to the local TSC to see if I could score a good deal and would reuse the old gasket when I used a Fram. They didn't have any for a Cub, but I did pick up 3 @ $0.69 each that fit my green Kawasaki powered grass cutter and also my Kawasaki powered golf cart.

[Willy]

I'm going to try to use the old gasket and I'll let you know how it works out.

[rockfarmer]

It seldom pays to procrastinate... this time, it did!

Thanks Ricky!

[ricky racer]

I'm going to try to use the old gasket and I'll let you know how it works out.

I've done that many times with no leaks.

[perk]

I stopped in at TSC today and they had one (1) C235 on the shelf. For 79 cents it is now mine! Wish they had had more.
Thanks Ricky

[Matt Kirsch]

I was surprised to find out that so far, at least two of my local TSCs carried tractor filters. Thought I knew the stores pretty well. So far I've scored four C235's, but at $2.99 each not the 79 or 99 cents the rest of you guys seem to be coming across.

[RonT]

I got the last one at our local (Homosassa) TSC. 59 cents.

[DickB]

The C235 has been the only oil filter readily (more or less) found on a shelf in my area. And that was at TSC. Other places had to order in a Cub oil filter. So it has been convenient to stop in at TSC now and then (as in right after an oil / filter change) to pick up a new filter to have on my shelf in the barn shop. Yesterday, between this thread on the sale, a 10% discount promo in the mailbox, a recent oil / filter change, and a need for other things in a nearby town, I picked up, as others have, the few remaining C235s (2 for me). $2.99 less 10%. Sure hope TSC continues to carry them...that "clearance" sticker has me wondering.

I've been reusing the same old black rubber gasket that came with the Cub when I bought it some 20+ years ago. I change oil / filter twice a year: once after a summer of garden prep work and cutting fields; then in the spring after a winter of snow plowing. No leaks around that long distance can do gasket.

[Crimson Tim]

I picked up the last filter at my local TSC last week and thought that was that. I was hoping to stock up, but one filter at $0.79 is still good.
Imagine my surprise when I had occasion to stop by the same store yesterday and discovered that two more filters had appeared!

[Scrivet]

Was near a TSC today and thought why not check. Glad I did. Two C235's for 79 cents each, two C135's for the H 69 cents each, a TG4967 for the Cub Cadet for 69 cents and the wallet buster, a C159 for my brother's Case VAC a whopping dollar thirty nine! I spent more for supper at White Castle than I did for the six filters.

[T-Mo]

My TSC has them listed for $7.49, 50 cents off the original price. But, this was using TSC's website, I haven't been into the local store recently.

[Scrivet]

.........I haven't been into the local store recently.

I have though (see previous post). Go north, my travels haven't taken me to Union or High Ridge yet.

[brewzalot]

2 more @ $.79 plus 10% off entire purchase coupon today- thanks Ricky, just imagine if you were getting half of what you have saved everyone!!

[Cubfriend]

Went to my TSC store last week and found nearly empty shelves for Fram oil filters. May try again this weekend just in case more came in.

[Willy]

My original gasket got all squeezed out by whoever put it in. I'm surprised it wasn't leaking. Must have been all that thick red paint on everything.

So, I measured the gasket surface on the oil filter cover last night and I believe a -232 o-ring would work quite well. For the filter through bolt if the original copper gaskets is missing or toast, the -112 size for the hydraulic pump shaft seal should work just fine if not over tightened. I tend to like o-rings as they can usually be found locally easier and cheaper than some gaskets.