Onan oil filter threads damaged
Onan 7000. Performing the season-end oil change yesterday, the oil filter was really hard to get off, had to use a breaker-bar on the oil-filter socket to break the filter loose. That's a really bad o...
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427435 wrote:
If it spun on by hand, it didn't have the wrong threads.
I'm not sure that grease would be better than oil----------at least not if it was a synthetic oil that handles higher temps. At least, that's all I've ever put on the filter gasket before installing. No issues taking them off, but I have the various cups to fit the various filters I deal with.
Yes it did have the wrong threads, although they matched closely enough to work on the filter and did not bind up due to the short thread length on the filter. They did bind when the filter was hand torqued. The filter did its job and upon the attempt to remove the mismatched threads acted like a crossed thread causing the hard removal of the filter.
