<div dir="ltr">Andy,<div><br><div>Rick sells the large and small gaskets for the oil filter. Same gaskets used for the block adapter, if memory serves. You might consider buying enough so you have a spare set on hand when you're through. The hose should stop leaking once tightened... unless there's a hole in the hose. The big nut at the oil filter is a 1 3/8" on mine, much dinged up over the years. 1 7/16" is too big. Use a socket (You have to remove the tube nut - a 3/4" open end wrench... or if you have a 1 3/'" offset open end wrench available. I can't get a straight shot at the bolt with a regular open end wrench... the radiator reservoir's in the way. </div></div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div>'67 Mark 2</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Andy Walker via Tigers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hey, guys:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">First, the good news…I’ve got 60 lbs of pressure on the gauge when I spin up my oil pump with my electric drill. For a stock oil pump, that’s great!! That means that when I fire up my Tiger for the first time on Sunday (hopefully…) that I should have oil pressure running out my ears…which leads me to the bad news. I’ve got a couple of oil leaks in the stock oil filter set-up, one of which is pretty bad. The bad one is at the connection on top of the oil filter where the big bolt is that holds the filter to the housing. The gasket is allowing the oil to just run out at a pretty good clip. I’ve got that bolt twisted down pretty tightly but it continues to leak. This is the first time that I’ve ever had an original oil filter set-up on a Tiger, so I’m unfamiliar with their oddities; are you supposed to use some sort of gasket sealer on that gasket between the shoulders of the bolt and the housing? Is this a common problem with these stock filter rigs?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The other leak is at the connection point between the short hose and the block adapter. Hopefully, I’ll be able to tighten it up a bit and stop the leak, but the leak I mentioned above is so bad that there is no way that I can start the car before fixing it. Any advice on how to properly seal that would be greatly appreciated.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Oh, and by the way, I don’t have a proper-sized wrench for the oil filter bolt in question. I mic’d it as best I could and it comes out to be something like a 1.410” in size. All I’ve got that is big enough to do the job is an adjustable wrench, and even that is so long that I have to stand it up and grab the shoulders of the bolt with the ends of the jaws of the wrench. What do you guys use on yours?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks much,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Andy Walker<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Edmond, OK<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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