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Hello all,
I discovered last night that my centrifugal oil filter is damaged. Some of the snap ring groove is broken, I don't feel comfortable running it as is so I have a replacement on the way along with the tool to remove the original filter barrel. While going through all this though, I was looking carefully at all the parts and I am wondering what exactly that snap ring does. The filter cover is spring loaded so it can make contact with the rotor, and the way that cover is constructed the rotor really can't go anywhere. I guess what I am wondering is could you run the thing without a snap ring, and if not why? Does it just stop the rotor from wearing excessively on the cover? Does it keep the O-ring under the rotor compressed so that it can seal?
Hopefully someone has an insight into this. Just to be clear, I am NOT planning on actually doing this, I have good used parts on the way to put it back together the way that Honda intended, this is purely my curiosity running wild.
I discovered last night that my centrifugal oil filter is damaged. Some of the snap ring groove is broken, I don't feel comfortable running it as is so I have a replacement on the way along with the tool to remove the original filter barrel. While going through all this though, I was looking carefully at all the parts and I am wondering what exactly that snap ring does. The filter cover is spring loaded so it can make contact with the rotor, and the way that cover is constructed the rotor really can't go anywhere. I guess what I am wondering is could you run the thing without a snap ring, and if not why? Does it just stop the rotor from wearing excessively on the cover? Does it keep the O-ring under the rotor compressed so that it can seal?
Hopefully someone has an insight into this. Just to be clear, I am NOT planning on actually doing this, I have good used parts on the way to put it back together the way that Honda intended, this is purely my curiosity running wild.
