05-04-2016, 11:45 AM
(05-04-2016, 11:14 AM)Lord Popgun_imp Wrote: Cormanus,
Since you don't care if it gets messed up, as it already is, just plug the holes around it so as to not get anything into the engine and spin it out using some vice grips, or channel locks or maybe even a small size pipe wrench. Medium strength locker should give up the ghost pretty easily.
13 ft lbs isn't much and on mine I might would just spin it in with a strap wrench till snug. Or MAYBE wrap something around the new one and use the small pipe wrench again. Unless I could get 2 nuts that would fit. Without doing the 2 nut thing I don't see how you would put a torque wrench on it.
Really though, it is not a big job. Or a hard or that critical one.
Did I say that? Don't think so. I was trying to say that you guys who know what's required make it all sound very easy. It probably is, but until I actually saw what had to be done, I might not find the written advice all that clear.
Is it right that the thread the oil filter screws into has been damaged? And that it's in a sleeve screwed into the engine? And that the only way to get it out is getting something inside it? If so, mechanical klutz that I am, I'd be treading very carefully—perhaps because I may not have the right tools and I'd be almost sure to make a mess which, clearly, I do not want to do because I don;t want little bits of metal in the oil.
I remain eager to learn though.