[Supras] 7mGTE oil filter remval trick

[Rockey Fox]

Oil filter relocation kit installed during the rebuild makes mine a bit easier to access and adds an additional 1+ quart of oil into the system between the oil hoses and the larger FL-1A oil filter. I located it under the right front headlight which requires the removal of the plastic pan underneath for oil filter changes but it's not nearly as messy and very easily accessed compared to stock location.

hth,
Rockey 91T

----- Original Message ----
From: "berniek at technicaldevelop.com" <berniek at technicaldevelop.com>
To: "Supras at supras.com" <Supras at supras.com>; "Supras at supras.com" <Supras at supras.com>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:21:45 AM
Subject: [Supras] 7mGTE oil filter remval trick


    Hand tightening of the better oil filters with deeper section 
gaskets is more critical than with lower quality filters.  The gasket 
expands significantly and "walks outboard" under high pressure 
conditions and conseqently the filter can be hard to remove.  I'm using
 
Purolator Pure1 filters at the moment and ran into this problem.  Steps
 
were as follows.


    1.  The only way to get the filter off is with a stamped steel 
"wrench" which fits the flutes at the the bottom of the can.  In my 
(our) situation the filter wrench requies a 3/8 universal joint and a 
long extension.  Yet the wrench began to slip. 


    2.  I used a bottle jack on the floor to upwards load the long 
extension to the swivel in a 1/2" breaker bar adapted to the former 
setup.  At first it felt as if the filter was coming off, but it turned
 
out that the washer with a square hole for the drive was inside of the 
sheet metal wrench, and was only spot welded at 4 small places.  The 
spot welds let go.


    3.  I gas welded the washer to the outside of the stamped wrench 
with the oxy torch, went through the same exercise with the bottle jack
 
and the filter came off.   But it did take a 1/2 breaker bar (laying 
under the car without much arm leverage) to do it. 


       Hope this is of help to others with similar problems.


       BernieK

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