Where is my oil filter
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Worth noting, the housing holds a fair bit of oil so have something underneath when you take it off.
Also be careful as it's pretty easy to damage the casing when removing it, you need a 36mm shallow socket.
Also be careful as it's pretty easy to damage the casing when removing it, you need a 36mm shallow socket.
They are tight, they aren't supposed to be fitted particularly tight but always seem to be a pain to remove again.
Make sure you are using a proper hexagonal socket (not one of those splined type ones that you can put on in any position). Then use a 2-foot breaker bar. This will enable you to get good constant pressure on the nut with a large amount of leverage. This normally does the trick with stubborn bolts and nuts (or housing in this case) that don't seem to want to budge without the risk of doing any damage.
Also, stupid question but it has to be asked. You are trying to turn it the right way aren't you? It needs to be turned anti-clockwise.
Also, stupid question but it has to be asked. You are trying to turn it the right way aren't you? It needs to be turned anti-clockwise.
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Yea im turning it the right way 
I was guessing if it was reverse threaded someone would have mentioned.
Nah I think it might have got rounded with the ring spanner. Never realized we hada 36 socket. Now if only I had a 35.
Its getting to the point where I might just do the oil get another housing and get the garage to deal with it the next service.
I was guessing if it was reverse threaded someone would have mentioned.
Nah I think it might have got rounded with the ring spanner. Never realized we hada 36 socket. Now if only I had a 35.
Its getting to the point where I might just do the oil get another housing and get the garage to deal with it the next service.
Yea im turning it the right way
I was guessing if it was reverse threaded someone would have mentioned.
Nah I think it might have got rounded with the ring spanner. Never realized we hada 36 socket. Now if only I had a 35.
Its getting to the point where I might just do the oil get another housing and get the garage to deal with it the next service.
For future references, i have done hundreds of these types of filters over the years where apprentices and such cant get it off.
Its pretty easy, but requires 2 people.
Get one of these;
Put that on the filter (put it on so you take it off) and the other person put on the 36mm socket with a small breaker par (a normal ratchet is also perfectly fine) and the person with the 36mm socket starts to try to undo it (to the point where you are using force to undo it, a gentle approch is needed here) then the person with the oil filter tool goes to undo it, the filter will pop straight off at this point. I don´t know why it works, but it works 100% every time.
The next time you install the filter housing, put a good amount of oil on the o-ring and screw it in, so the housing is flush with the oil filter bracket, and just a tiny amount more (we are talking 5-10 degress more) its all that is needed.
25.5 N/M is not very tight. Time and time again an enthusiast pays dearly for the monkey that worked on it before him. Make sure the engine is warmish (not piping hot) so as to warm the plastic a little and it will undo more readily. Refix it with a torque wrench and possibly new o ring on the seal.
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No it isn't very tight, but they have a tendency to get stuck even when they are refitted with a torque wrench. The filter should come supplied with a new O-ring.
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