civic oil filters redux

(M.A. Stewart) wrote in
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> Tegger ) writes:

>>
>> So I've heard. And I wonder about that assertion. I have never
>> personally even come close to bottoming out the new OEM filter.
>>
>
> They will on a 3Gee, and they do it at the prescribed 3/4 turn from
> gasket contact at the base. The old large OEM and non OEM filters
> needed the filter wrench to get the 3/4 turn (except for Arnold where
> muscle power is always a no problemo for him). The pee-wee filters go
> 3/4 turn by hand.The above refers to a 3Gee. I always scribe a line on
> the end of the filter can with a screwdriver before installing. A
> radial line from the center.
>




I have a suspicion that people who are bottoming out the filter are seating
it too far down before measuring that 3/4 turn. Overtorquing it, in other
words.

The gasket must /just barely/ kiss the sealing surface, and /no more/ than
that. It takes an extremely delicate touch to feel exactly when it contacts.

The new filters were made with a different base plate design in order to
address complaints about leaking in cold weather with the old filters.
Apparently many people were hand-tightening the old filters as though they
were square-gasket aftermarkets, and applying too little torque.


--
Tegger

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Tegger wrote:
> (M.A. Stewart) wrote in
> :
>
>> Tegger ) writes:
>
>>
>> I could have saved you mucho dinero if I had known that. I use a
>> filter strap wrench.
>
> I have one of those too. Good way to break the oil pressure switch on my
> car, which is exactly what I did before I got smart and bought the socket-
> type. Not enough room at the back of the B-block for the strap type.
>
> I have six or seven different types of oil filter wrenches, accumulated
> over the years.

I only have one, the OEM oil filter wrench I bought from H and A a few
years ago for my '03 Accord. Current price = $18.65.