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I would never recommend to anyone to stick a screw driver through a filter to take it off. I had a friend that did that many years ago. After he did it several times there was not enough filter to get hold of. His wife called me and asked if I would come help him before he destroyed the engine. When I got there he was beating on it with a hatchet. I wound up making a spanner wrench that would fit in several of the holes and used a LONG 1/2" drive ratchet with a cheater bar on the end of it. Any filter should be filled with oil, as much as you feel comfortable with, lubricate the gasket and screw it on hand tight. Tighten it an additional 1/3 to 1/2, turn, even with a wrench if you want. Just make sure that it is not more than that. Make sure that the old gasket doesn't stay on the block.
The reason for pre-filling the filter is that the engine runs without oil until the filter fills and oil pressure is built up. Depending on how many hours your engine has on it, it does the engine no good running it without oil.
If you go to Volvo and pay their price for the oil filters and oil, you are wasting your money. Any good name brand filter will do fine, and you can buy three of them at Walmart for the same as for one from a Volvo dealer. A Chevrolet engine is still a Chevrolet engine whether it has a Volvo name on it or not. Oil filters do not have to be on that tight. I have been in the business of building engines for around 50 years. I have said a few choice words about those that over-tighten the filters. Same way with the drain petcocks in the side of the block and exhaust manifolds. Wrap the fitting with a couple of rounds of teflon tape and tighten it, remembering that it is YOU that will have to take it back out. Never put a plug in the block or manifold like that without the teflon tape. It will lubricate the fitting and allow it to come out much easier. I have rounded off a few of them that others have tightened like they were the incredible hulk.
Bottom line is.... if you are changing your own oil to save money, why would you pay three times what a filter should cost? Kind of defeating the purpose isn't it?
Ed
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Ed in Jeffersonville, Indiana
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