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gshadel
06-20-2006 10:28:10
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Re: It don't fit ! oil filter in reply to Bruc, 06-20-2006 07:39:45
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Bruce,
the spring actually goes above the steel can filter cover that is still in your oil pan. It doesn't go between the filter and the screen, or the filter and the pan, or the screen and the cover. Those are all common, but incorrect installations. You may actually already have a spring properly installed, plus the extra spring that was inproperly installed, thus making a tight fit. Push up on your steel can filter cover that is still in the oil pan and see if you have resistance that might suggest you already have a spring correctly installed up there. If the filter cover just rattles around on the down pipe, you probably don't have the spring up there, where it belongs, and you need to install the one you have up there (means dropping the oil pan).
Also, the screen, and I think the filter, are actually taller than your steel can cover in the oil pan, so when you install the screen& filter it pushes-up on the steel cover. If you cover is a bit cocked and jambed, it may not slide up the down pipe to give you the clearance you need to get the screen and filter in there. Might need to wiggle the cover to make sure it pushes up.
It should not matter if the filter has a recess or not, don't need one, as the spring don't belong there. The filters I use (not NAPA) are not recessed. I have used Napa 1107's several times, I know that is the right filter. Is your new filter physically the same height as the old filter? Maybe the NAPA guy gave you a 1107 box with something else inside? Has happened to me in the past.
Don't forget to use a new rubber gasket on the cover plateGeorge
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