In my last new topic of the evening (
) I wanted to post a picture of my spin on oil filter converter that I took off a few weekends ago. After reading all the discussion on the forum and in the technical reprints of the worries that some folks had about their internal sealing I thought I'd have a look and at least replace the O rings. This is what I found:
Despite the fact that the internal O ring has flats on each side (indicating that it was compressed) it has gone a little D shaped and I'd hazzard a guess that it was letting oil past it without it going through the filter. The tide marks on the side before I cleaned it would certainly bear out this theory.
Did anyone ever come to a conclusion as to how to be sure they seal correctly? This has me a little worried to be honest. I think I'll probably machine a steel insert to go in the middle which ensures that the O ring is properly trapped and cannot migrate under the pressure of the oil.
) I wanted to post a picture of my spin on oil filter converter that I took off a few weekends ago. After reading all the discussion on the forum and in the technical reprints of the worries that some folks had about their internal sealing I thought I'd have a look and at least replace the O rings. This is what I found:Despite the fact that the internal O ring has flats on each side (indicating that it was compressed) it has gone a little D shaped and I'd hazzard a guess that it was letting oil past it without it going through the filter. The tide marks on the side before I cleaned it would certainly bear out this theory.
Did anyone ever come to a conclusion as to how to be sure they seal correctly? This has me a little worried to be honest. I think I'll probably machine a steel insert to go in the middle which ensures that the O ring is properly trapped and cannot migrate under the pressure of the oil.
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