When changing the oil, I could not get the oil filter cap stem to go all of the way down. It appears that there is some sort of gasket/spring in the "tube" that the oil filter stem goes down into, that has come disoriented. It won't come out and won't go down either.

I'm stuck.......Help.

JCD

Evidently a gasket from the bottom of a previous oil filter came off and got lodged in the tube where the stem fits.......

I fished it out with a coat hanger.......got all of it.

Amazing thing is that it was not the filter that I just took off........it was at least the last one that was 3,000 or so miles ago.

WHAT A SUNDAY.....I love these cars.

JCD

Failed filter brand name??

MB, MANN, ...?

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1989 560SL 111Kmi
2007 E550 4Matic 157 Kmi
2000 F250SD 7.3l, 1996 Explorer Ltd 5.0l
1965 VW Beetle Deluxe 115 Kmi
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Previous MB:
1983 240D Euro Manual 144 Kmi
1983 300SD 495 Kmi
1986 190D 2.5 100 Kmi
1986 300SDL 202 Kmi
1991 300D 2.5 Turbo 91 Kmi
1998 E320S4 (4-matic wagon) 140 Kmi

It must have been a Mann filter that had the problem.

I switched to Hengst. The bad news there is the rubber gasket that came with the Hengst did not seal the housing cap.

I had to use a left over Mann gasket after the Hengst gasket leaked......yuk.

What a mess today........

JCD