[s-cars] Re: Oil Filter Troubles

[james accordino]

I'm sorry to hear that.  I ONLY handtighten them.  1/2
turn past contact with gasket.  Back off a 1/4 turn
and about 1/8 turn clockwise.  Never had to use a
wrench to remove it or had it leak.  I DO have one of
those metal crush wrenches that takes a breaker bar.
For when someone else put one on.  (NOT on my cars.)
I have had to shread a few and even use the threaded
center post to remove one.  That really sucks.

Jim Accordino

> --- TM <t44tq at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > More of a general question to everyone- any
> problems
> > with
> > dealerships overtightening oil filters?
> >
> > I went to change the oil on the A4 today and the
> oil
> > filter
> > was on there so tightly that it just wouldn't come
> > off- to
> > the point that the oil filter wrench crushed the
> > filter, nearly
> > broke it in two and I only managed maybe 1/4 turn
> > with all of
> > that effort.
> >
> > Now the car has been flatbedded to a local garage
> to
> > try and
> > get the filter off the car.
> >
> > I only install oil filters 1/4 turn past the
> gasket
> > contacting the
> > housing, never had a problem with that technique,
> I
> > guess some dealers
> > must somehow install filters with an impact
> wrench.


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