Hi Trevor,
It's possible that the vertical pipe onto which the filter spins has
bent. Try putting a carpenter's square on the base to check out this
theory. Could be that a filter stuck once before and the DPO bent the
pipe in his frenzied attempts to remove the stuck filter. If he bent it
in one direction, you should be able to bend it back, more or less,
though you might want to remove the filter assembly from the block before
you start this. Haven't had the occasion to remove one with the engine
in the car. It's said to be a difficult task requiring plenty of time.
Two, could be that the new filter itself is not threaded properly.
Have you spun on a second new filter to check that possibility?
Bob
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 01:10:28 -0500 Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
writes:
>Just doing the first few things on the 1970 MGB
>project car I bought last week.
>
> I had a HELL of a time getting the old spin on oil
>filter off. All the time I am thinking "who the hell
>would put an oil filter on this tightly". I eventually
>had it ripped into dozens of twisted metal shards and
>was able to rip the bottom piece off using some
>improvised tools.
>
> However, putting on my new oil filter, I noticed that
>the threads seem off-alignment to the gasket surface. The
>front edge touched quite a lot before the back edge.
>
> In effect, I became a DPO because I had to torque the
>oil filter down VERY hard to make the gasket touch all
>the way around. I am not sure if I made a seal, I guess
>I will find out when I start it up. ;>
>
> Is there a way to fix this problem? To align the
>two surfaces somehow? Can something be bent a little?
>
>--
>Trevor Boicey
>Ottawa, Canada
>tboicey@brit.ca
>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>
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