Help with Oil Filter Caniser

[wildrage]

When I tried to open the canister, the entire thing started spinning. I braced it with a filter wrench and got the cap off. Now the big question: How do I get the base of the canister secured to the block? Looking inside it almost looks like a Hex bolt in there. Also, I see a gasket on the cap - is there also a gasket going from the canister to the block? I don't see one there, and I think that may be the source of my oil leak.

Thanks

[tpilews]

Any update on this? I am changing my oil right now and the lid is stuck on; the entire canister is spinning. I'm gonna wait a couple hours to let the engine cool down, and see if this may tighten the grip on the canister.

[cadillacroadside]

tighten up that hex nut to get you by. this happens from overtorquing the cover, i HIGHLY recomend replacing the entire filter housing at this time, every time this happens even with a new seal it usually continues to leak

[wildrage]

I used a filter wrench leveraged against the transmission housing and opened it with the socket wrench.

I found out that my housing wasn't OEM - that's where all the confusion came from on my part. I finally realized my problem when the catera filter I bought didn't fit my housing, and becasue my housing cap was aluminum and not plastic. When I finally got the housing off it had some sort of German brand name on it.

If I had a housing to replace it with, I would have, but I wanted to put my car back together and not wait a week for the part to come in. I bought a standard oil filter and used the gasket off of that for the housing to block- it fit perfectly. The old housing to block gasket was almost flush with the housing and very brittle. It was what was causing my oil leak.

When I do my next oil change I'll be replacing the entire housing with a GM OEM one. Does anyone have the part number for it? No dealer has the whole housing listed on their online stock - only the cap.

[tpilews]

Well, I found this on gmpartsdirect. There doesn't appear to be a cap and canister housing. Perhaps it comes all together.

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[wildrage]

I found that too...isn't it listed for something like $6? I figured that was just a standard filter like the ones they use on pre-facelift models.