Many thanks to Lou Metelko and you others for
your help. It was of course the old gasket and
you spotted it right off. It should have been
obvious to me when the new gasket wouldn't stay
in place without help from grease. It just kept
falling out. I'll have plenty of time to let the
lesson sink in while I clean up over a gallon of
oil from the floor.
I place most of the blame in fact on the makers
of the filter for inadequate instructions. Like
the makers of those frozen pizzas that tell you
to put it in the oven at 250 degrees for 20
minutes but never tell you to take the plastic
off first! This makes me appreciate my 1929
Chevrolet all the more, it doesn't even have an
oil filter. They were smart back then!!
Thanks again,
Dave
> > a millimetre, to the edge of the lip.
>
>Right, the edge of the gasket is below the lip,
>and will compress even more when
>the canister is tightened, forming an enclosed
>space to compress and contain the
>gasket in all 4 directions. This is necessary because the gasket has no
>structural integrity of it's own, and the force against it is considerable.
>
>> I put a bit
>> of grease on it to hold it in place in the filter head, and then
>> advanced the cannister with new element, up with the bolt until the
> whole thing was fairly tight.
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David Griffiths
Mxllefaret 26 C
0750 Oslo
Norway
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