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Hi! I am the new owner of a 2015 mercedes benz e400 4matic. Nice meeting you folks! I would like to change the oil, and though it is nice that I don’t have to crawl under the vehicle to access the oil filter, I can’t loosen the D*** plastic oil filter housing. I tried everything. First got an oil filter wrench that was too small. Then got a variable size one that slipped. Now have a 74mm one that is slightly large, put a latex glove around the housing and fits snug but still slips. How do I get it off with damaging it? Also, I plan on using an electric pump to pump out the oil through the dipstick tube so I don’t have to crawl under the car and undo a million screws. Has this been done before? Does it work well?
Hi! I am the new owner of a 2015 mercedes benz e400 4matic. Nice meeting you folks! I would like to change the oil, and though it is nice that I don’t have to crawl under the vehicle to access the oil filter, I can’t loosen the D*** plastic oil filter housing. I tried everything. First got an oil filter wrench that was too small. Then got a variable size one that slipped. Now have a 74mm one that is slightly large, put a latex glove around the housing and fits snug but still slips. How do I get it off with damaging it? Also, I plan on using an electric pump to pump out the oil through the dipstick tube so I don’t have to crawl under the car and undo a million screws. Has this been done before? Does it work well?
promise yourself one thing... replace your plastic oil filter housing cap. It holds one of the engine killer: the plastic bypass valve that feeds engine with unfiltered dirty oil during engine start.
Once you have the new one I let you get creative to get the old cap out with a filter top wrench.
Pumping oil out is child's play every 5000.Miles with a 9-Quarts manual extractor.
promise yourself one thing... replace your plastic oil filter housing cap. It holds one of the engine killer: the plastic bypass valve that feeds engine with unfiltered dirty oil during engine start.
Once you have the new one I let you get creative to get the old cap out with a filter top wrench.
Pumping oil out is child's play every 5000.Miles with a 9-Quarts manual extractor.
So the new oil filter housing doesn’t have this bypass valve?
So the new oil filter housing doesn’t have this bypass valve?
New genuine oil filter cap also has a plastic bypass valve but has more life left.
spring loaded plastic relief
genuine bypass valve
first point of failure
The key is a good clean filter plus low engine calcium sludge to partially plug-up filter then bypass relief will feed contaminants at every startup.
You can read the source thread here.
Last edited by CaliBenzDriver; Jul 30, 2024 at 01:31 PM.
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