Morris Minor Owners Club

I missed the start of the discussion (Damn the fact that I'm 5 hours behind everyone else here!)

But...

Oil filters are the easiest things to replace - just make sure that you reassemble it correctly and double check the rubber seal before filling up the engine with oil and turning it on... Erm... otherwise you spurt oil on your garage/driveway - like I did...

Oh, and how is it possible/senisble to replace the oil filter without doing the oil? Not meaning to be obtuse, but well, I normally just do my filter when I do the engine oil... :/

Nikki.

Nikki,

What happened to me was that I drained the oil into the plastic container (bought from H******s), refitted the drain plug then removed the oil filter, turning it on its side to drain into the container.

Put in the new filter (filled with oil).

Only when I emptied the plastic container did I discover this rather long spring inside it. Then I had to read the manual, take off the oil filter and replace the spring .....

That's when I found out that I could remove the filter casing without draining the sump....

Colin

OH, so you did exactly what I did first time then

One other word of caution dont forget to replace the dipstick as it can squirt quite a bit of oil around the engine bay without one, not that I have ever done that

Hi

I've just bought one on the spin on oil filters and have had major touble getting one of the studs out. I have tried to use the two nuts together to unscrew it but with no sucess, it seems stuck fast. Have you any suggestions?

thanks

Squirt some penetrating fluid on it plus gas is best if you have some and leave it a while or as suggested by someone else a piece of rag wrapped round the end and then soaked in coke, its also worth trying to tighten it up a fraction as this will often break the seal before trying to undo the stud.

If it comes to it, I know there are such things as stud extractors, I think used when a stud breaks. I've never used one, just thought I'd tell you..
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