[PhillT]

Does anyone have a 2.5 or 2.7 V6 block that they can measure the oil filter gasket contact area on please.

What I am after is the inner & outer diameter of the circular surface where the oil filter gasket seals against the housing on the block.

Thanks.

[Westie]

Just go to Super cheap and look at a filter there and add a couple of mm

[PhillT]

Great idea, but I have looked at two already and they are different, so of no use.

Thanks anyway

[royce]

what are you planning on doing? fitting a remote filter setup?

[PhillT]

That is the long term plan (when I can afford it) but for now I will settle for a longer (taller) filter that I have some chance of getting a wrench onto, or getting my hands around it to loosen / tighten. Bigger diameter cannister will help too.

There are many longer ones with the same thread (3/4" X 16 UNF), ADBV, similar psi relief valves etc, but I need to know what gasket size I can get away with.

I would like to use the common old Z9 (or a better quality equivalent like B2 Baldwin) because it is 140mm long vs 95mm one I have just put on. Bloody thing is going to be a real pain to get off, and I do not want to put another one like that on.

[gravity_powered]

Who the fuck decided to put the oil filter there between the engine mount, the cross member and the exhaust?!? Bloody things are impossible to remove without getting oil everywhere!

I bet the engineer/trained monkey who designed that has a good laugh every time they think of someone trying to change a filter.

It is the second worst oil filter location I have seen after a Mitsubishi colt!

[PhillT]

gravity_powered wrote:

Who the fuck decided to put the oil filter there between the engine mount, the cross member and the exhaust?!? Bloody things are impossible to remove without getting oil everywhere!

I bet the engineer/trained monkey who designed that has a good laugh every time they think of someone trying to change a filter.

It is the second worst oil filter location I have seen after a Mitsubishi colt!

Well said mate!!!! My feelings exactly. The only one I have seen worse was an early model Nissan Exa Turbo.

[Munster]

They're designed by a contortionist, because you need to be one just to get at it, especially the current model GV!