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Upper Oil Filter Housing
Re: 76' 240D
Went to change the oil for first time since buying... Thru-bolt for filter extremely hard to remove, required ratcheting all the way out. Never able to remove with fingers. Cleaned the filter can, installed new filter, re-installed o-rings and the such but could never get the thru-bolt to tighten. Removed thru-bolt again to find what appears to be threads for upper filter housing! Is it possible (everything is possible) so is this common? Thanks, El Sea/L.C. |
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If there was threads from the Oil Filter Housing on your Through Bolt when you pulled it out the 2nd time what most likely has happend is that during a prefious Oil Filter Change someone cross threaded the Bolt and Housing.
I would not drive the Car like that even if I could get the Bolt back in to where it seemed to stay. It could loosen up later and at the very least leak and at the worst come out completely. We have had enough members lose their Engines du to a Oil Leak while driving. I would think you would need to get another housing. Not sure how easy it would be to repair the threads in one. Those Lube Oil changing places are famous for stripping and cross threading things. Perhaps the previous owner had His Oil changed at one.
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And the sad fact is that there are not as many of the 115 oil filter housings around as the 123's.
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With out seeing it I cannot say for sure but if you are unable to locate another Upper Oil Filter Housing it might be possible to have a Machine Shop install a Heilicoil or some other type of thread insert in the Housing.
The key to this type of repair is that the Hole for the Insert needs to be drilled straight and centered in the Housing. If the Threads on the Bolt itself are buggered up they at least sell those. Also I was looking at a pic for an Oil Filter Housing on a 1977 240D and there is supposed to be a Compression Spring with maybe a washer attached to it in the Bottom of the Steel Housing or loose. Make sure that part/s is/are still there.
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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel Last edited by Diesel911; 02-28-2010 at 01:18 AM. |
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It appears the the PO over torqued both the oil pan drain and the oil filter bolt. When removing both bolts they never reached the point of coming out easy. The oilf ilter bolt appears to be un harmed, therfore the housing has been sacificed (darn-it). I am inclined to removed the housing from the block (while on the frame) and have that addressed, then double check the oil pan drain.
In regards to the compression spring, it is located on the bottom side of the filter. Tried to remove it but it seems somewhat fixed. Thanks for the suggestions, El Sea/L.C. Last edited by el sea; 02-28-2010 at 04:32 PM. |
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A similar type of Oil Filter Housings were on almost all cars in the 1950s and with some into the 1960s. If you get the Steel Housing on at a slight angle they leak.
The remedy is to loosen the Steel Housing and re-center it and tighten it. However, when you loosen the Housing a bunch of Oil comes out of it. I think because of that People try to tighten it more instead of repositioning it. The other issue is that they often came with a thick Paper Gasket. People did not like to try to get the Old Gasket out of the Housing and would try to reuse the Old Gasket. Again they would overtighten them when they leaked. In fact even a new Paper Gasket might not seal well untill you got the Steel Housing well centered.
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