[Moppie]

How the hell do you tighten an oil filter with a wrench?!!!


For a spark plug thats normaly right, till it stops, then 1/3-1/2 trun with a socket.

But most oil filters are made from very soft material, and useing a wrecnh, even one designed for grabbing oil filters will easily twist or distort it, and cause it to leak.
If its an older canister type filter, where the filter drops into a steel canister that if attached to the engine then you can tighten it with a wrench, but they don't need much.


I tighten all my oil filters by hand. Make sure both the new filter and your hands are clean, and free of oil.
Smear a little oil on the rubber seal, and small amount on the filter threads (go up and down, not round and round, or you will leave your finger in the filter).
Then I just wind it on till it stops, then go prehaps 1/4 turn by hand.


Most filters will actualy tighten with use and time, if one has come loose its probobly because it was never tightened in the first place.