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[Nick W]

Evening gays, I mean guys 😃

Sorry for bumping but I forgot to ask....

I am going to be converting this to spin on filter (not only will it sort my immediate leak issue but I actually prefer them) and I was just wondering what I should torque the new fitting to? I’m thinking 45nm as per the old filter housing? TIA 👍

Hand tight like all spin on filters should be bear.

I think he means the tube rather than the filter. 

the tube is just that: a tube with 2 short lengths of thread, or is threaded along its length so there's no way to torque it accurately. You squirt some brake cleaner into the threads in the block, apply some ordinary Loctite to the adapter and screw it in by hand. This means it stays in place when you unscrew the oil filter that is only fitted hand tight. Just like the milions of engines that use this system that replaced separate paper filters over sixty years ago. Having another casting attached to the block to house the filter is a backward step.

[Doctor Gollum]

The official one has an internal hex

14mm iirc...

[Nick W]

The official one has an internal hex

14mm iirc...

none of the ones I've seen did, two of which were bought over the counter from a dealer and supplied in sealed GM packaging. Ford ones don't either.

[Doctor Gollum]

Perhaps the 14mm hex was for removing the old retaining bolt

[Webby the Bear]

So is it hand tight or oppsin tight? 🤣🤣🤣

[Doctor Gollum]

Wind it into the stop plus a half wrist*... Just be sure to degrease the thread in the block otherwise the thread lock won't hold.

It only needs to resist the quarter wrist used to fit the filter

[Webby the Bear]

Cheers mate. I’ll hammer gun it in then 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[aaronjb]

Cheers mate. I’ll hammer gun it in then 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ah, you've become a proper mechanic!

[TheBoy]

Cheers mate. I’ll hammer gun it in then 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That reminds me, I need to check the wheelbolts on TBE for the wheel that blackcircles had to have a 2nd go at on Saturday (because they forgot the sealing shite the first time around).

Apart from fatty in town, who knows better than to use a windy on my cars, I usually only take the wheels to a tyre place, not the car.  But as they cocked up, and time was tight, I was left with limited options

[Andy B]

...
 ..., who knows better than to use a windy on my cars, ...

I'm going to have to clamp down on their use on my car. I spent ages a few weeks back making sure all bolts had their stainless cap .... rattle guns just bugger the cap up, it falls off & you end up with a flower shaped bolt that only a 6 sided 17mm socket will only just get hold of. I've used a flavour of Loctite to glue some of them on.

[TheBoy]

...
 ..., who knows better than to use a windy on my cars, ...

I'm going to have to clamp down on their use on my car. I spent ages a few weeks back making sure all bolts had their stainless cap .... rattle guns just bugger the cap up, it falls off & you end up with a flower shaped bolt that only a 6 sided 17mm socket will only just get hold of. I've used a flavour of Loctite to glue some of them on.

I have a Jaaaaaagggg, with Ford derived wheelnuts.  The stainless caps are quite capable of falling off on their own accord.  They become almost a service item, crappy things.

[Andy B]

...
 ..., who knows better than to use a windy on my cars, ...

I'm going to have to clamp down on their use on my car. I spent ages a few weeks back making sure all bolts had their stainless cap .... rattle guns just bugger the cap up, it falls off & you end up with a flower shaped bolt that only a 6 sided 17mm socket will only just get hold of. I've used a flavour of Loctite to glue some of them on.

I have a Jaaaaaagggg, with Ford derived wheelnuts.  The stainless caps are quite capable of falling off on their own accord.  They become almost a service item, crappy things.

The type of wheel the Senators had was a better idea .. cover the centre of the wheel with a cap & that way the bolts/nuts can be a rusty as they want as you can't see them 

[aaronjb]

...
 ..., who knows better than to use a windy on my cars, ...

I'm going to have to clamp down on their use on my car. I spent ages a few weeks back making sure all bolts had their stainless cap .... rattle guns just bugger the cap up, it falls off & you end up with a flower shaped bolt that only a 6 sided 17mm socket will only just get hold of. I've used a flavour of Loctite to glue some of them on.

I have a Jaaaaaagggg, with Ford derived wheelnuts.  The stainless caps are quite capable of falling off on their own accord.  They become almost a service item, crappy things.

The type of wheel the Senators had was a better idea .. cover the centre of the wheel with a cap & that way the bolts/nuts can be a rusty as they want as you can't see them 

My Renault 19 16v had wheel centres like that on alloy wheels.. one of them made a bid for freedom in a 30mph area once; they make quite the impressive weapon! Luckily it only embedded itself in a hedge..

[TheBoy]

...
 ..., who knows better than to use a windy on my cars, ...

I'm going to have to clamp down on their use on my car. I spent ages a few weeks back making sure all bolts had their stainless cap .... rattle guns just bugger the cap up, it falls off & you end up with a flower shaped bolt that only a 6 sided 17mm socket will only just get hold of. I've used a flavour of Loctite to glue some of them on.

I have a Jaaaaaagggg, with Ford derived wheelnuts.  The stainless caps are quite capable of falling off on their own accord.  They become almost a service item, crappy things.

The type of wheel the Senators had was a better idea .. cover the centre of the wheel with a cap & that way the bolts/nuts can be a rusty as they want as you can't see them 

That reminds me, need to buy a new wheel centre for the Battlebus, after she used it for work last week.

Given the number of centre caps she loses, always drivers side, I suspect some little Coventry scrote has a business nicking them 

[Webby the Bear]

My little dewalt guns them to around 70nm if I was to guess. Leaving them perfectly ready for a smooth one motion torquing 😎😎😎