[angusdevil]

I changed my oil tonight and when I climbed under to change the filter, it had two dings in the bottom, inline pointing straight to the passenger side tire. Its an HP-1 and I know its a larger filter but what could have caused the damage. It hasn't been offroad and been down just a few gravel roads over the last few months. Any ideas?

 

[adamsredlines]

Any road debris getting kicked up just right could do it, or it could have had dents when you installed it and just didnt notice it.

Its not a fault of the HP-1, its just one of those things that sometimes happens.

 

[MikeHTally]

I would think road debris would scratch...

 

[angusdevil]

I would think road debris would scratch...

That's what I thought too. It looks more like it got bumped from something but from what, I don't know.

 

[coder]

cut it open, something may have happened on the inside...

 

[mongongo]

thats what I was gonna suggest. Had a mazda b2000 that vacum crushed its oil filter for some reason. Never understood and it only happend once.

 

[angusdevil]

Hmmm... I got some time tonight to do that. What's the best way to go about doing it? Hacksaw I would imagine or just brute force with a sawzall ?