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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Sully2 wrote:rgatijnet1 wrote:
When installing any spin on oil filter, always coat the gasket surface with wheel bearing grease, NOT oil. Oil will tend to harden from the heat and make the filter difficult to remove. Wheel bearing grease can handle the heat and will allow for easy removal when the time comes.
Horse Manure. The gasket or the gasket surface can be rubbed with EITHER a high temp grease or motoroil
Well horse manure right back at you. :R
How many times have you read on this forum about people having trouble removing their oil filters? I'm sure not one of them used wheel bearing grease. They used the motor oil that they all had been taught a long long time ago.
