[Farmall] "H" oil filter questions - photos below

[szabelsk at gdls.com]

You can try lightly wetting the gasket with oil, putting it on a flat 
surface under a heavy flat object over night. It just took a set from 
being bent in the box for a while.

As for cleaning the old gasket out of the groove, something along the 
lines of a small screwdriver with a bent tip works good. Just drag it 
along both edges of the groove and then down the middle. For getting right 
into the edges of the grooves I use an old tire plug tool that I bent and 
sharpened so that it gets right into the corners. If the scraper is soft 
steel you shouldn't have to worry about damaging the housing. Sometimes 
soaking it with carb cleaner helps loosen things up.

Carl Szabelski



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