[Supras] 7mGTE oil filter remval trick

[tom]

I relocated my filter on the passenger side near the charcoal cylinder on the fender wall.  I made a filter wrench using a bicycle chain held in a modified 3/8" socket.  With an extension in the socket I can use a ratchet wrench to put enough torque to loosen a tight filter without slippage.  In fact it can easily crush the filter if one twists to hard.

The relocation bracket has two horizontal inlets from the engine (one is blocked) and 2 outlets.  One outlet goes to the oil after-market oil cooler, the other I fitted for a mechanical oil pressure gage.  The filter is mounted beneath the mounting bracket.

The only problem is oil drooling around the filter- no matter how tight it is.  The casket sealing surface may warp when the bracket heats or maybe the filter screw is not perpendicular to it.  Any advice on preventing the drooling oil?

Tom 87NA-T

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From: Jim Jobe <jjobe2 at supratech.org>
Subject: Re: [Supras] 7mGTE oil filter remval trick
To: "berniek at technicaldevelop.com" <berniek at technicaldevelop.com>


Another option is a coil spring oil filter wrench.
As you loosen the filter the coil tightens around
the filter body.

>     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. 
>