oil filter from hell!!!

[Turdle]

After you absorb most of the oil with kitty litter, or oil absorb whatever ( little clay fragments),
Take a brick, and scrub the stuff into the stain. put some more kitty litter and repeat. crush it into the stain good.This is a good dry method, and will work wonders. once as a teenager with a very picky father, I was in this situation.

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to finish it up, I have found Dawn Dish soap to be a great grease cutter, with hot water and a brush.

Good luck.

 

[cardumb]

thanks a lot man

 

[BrooklynBay]

This thread has instructions for changing any type of oil filter: http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=154189

 

[cardumb]

Well, I personally shouldn't have any more problems changing oil filters; at least not on the truck i got now. But thanks for finding that; should be useful to anyone else who reads this thread w/ the samr problem I had.



edit: hahahah

 

[LXNavajo_94]

I actually use white petroleum jelly on oil filter gaskets. We use it all the time on all the gaskets on construction equpiment works like a charm.

 

[BrooklynBay]

I use vaseline on water filter gaskets, and threads on the canister. The company recommends using it so that they are easy to remove, and helps prevent leaks. I've never tried it on an oil filter, but I'm sure that the results would be the same.

 

[UtahX]

The place I bring my truck into uses some kind of shavings it looks like, man that stuff works great, they spilt a bunch of oil once, they put this stuff over it and within seconds they just swept it away with a broom, no oil mark either.

 

[cardumb]

think you could find what its called?

 

[Brandons]

i can only speculate, yould probably find it at wal mart too no idea though.

 

[cardumb]

yeah...I'll have to check that out tomorrow.

 

[raaizin]

removing oil from concrete

Napa sells someething that will do this. It works pretty well. it cost under 20 and well worth it. I forgot the name of it but the guy behind the counter should know what I am talking about....Ray

 

[glfredrick]

There is a regular product for garage floor cleaning. It has all the chemicals needed for oil spills. Any auto parts place will have it. Just ask for garage floor soap. Wet the area a bit, sprinkle the soap down, then scrub it with a stiff broom. After a bit, scrub again, then rinse it off.

The good stuff turns green when you use it -- has solvents in it to disapate the oil.

If you don't want to buy anything, just try some powdered laundry soap. Does almost the same thing -- as long as you don't let the oil sit and bake in for a couple weeks.

 

[ma96782]

Something to consider, about putting the oil filter on w/ a rub of clean engine oil on the gasket:

On Greasing or oiling the gasket:

Most folks pre-fill an oil filter and always run a oily finger along the gasket but Airwolf recommends grease for this purpose.

How tight should I tighten my filter to make sure it doesn't leak, but is still easy to remove?
The single biggest mistake people make when installing an oil filter is failing to use a dab of Dow Corning DC4 or any good silicon grease on the oil filter O-Ring before screwing on the filter base. Never use engine oil on the gasket as 50 hrs later when you try to remove the filter, the oil will have been long gone and the filter will not want to come off. We purposely have made our oil filter adapter easily removable with 4 bolts, so if you put the filter on like a gorilla, or you used engine oil as a lube, you can take the filter base off the aircraft and put it in a vise and deal with it there. Never try to remove a stuck filter on the firewall, as our mount is deceptively simple, yet very strong, and you have the potential of pealing back the firewall with brute force. We purposely did not provide a way of holding our filter base with a large wrench because if would provide you with a very large lever and increase to potential of damaging the firewall. Again, fix the problem, not the symptom. Use a dab of DC4 silicon grease and you'll never have a problem removing an oil filter.

These comments were from another forum..............although it talks about aircraft oil filters............it is something to think about.


Aloha, Mark

 

[Dan Whitaker]

I've always used the new motor oil trick & have never had a problem.