What are you getting out of it? Reliable next-day delivery of diapers and paper towels? How about monopoly capitalism that has destroyed competition and free markets? How about a billionaire class that now controls every aspect of our political, social and private lives? How about surveillance technologies that have turned your children into idiots and cellphone zombies? As long as Americans remain nothing more than docile consumers, Americans will be slaves in a slave economy.

Some people voted for Trump because they like their money more than their democracy. How's that money doing at the gas pump this week?

 

Final Result -

I screwed that filter onto my son's car with no problem. I suspect that I just didn't want to apply any more force when I tried to screw it onto my car.

 

Filters should spin free until they hit the gasket. As in put one finger on the end and spin it like a jog dial -level of free spin. That's why they call them "spin-on" oil filters. Then it's 2/3 or 3/4 turn or whatever the box specifies to compress the gasket.

If it's dragging, there's something wrong with the threads. Forcing fasteners to turn means risking damage to the mating threads - the threaded tube on the engine block. That tube can be replaced, but I don't think it has internal hex or anything to engage a tool. You would need to fabricate a tool to grip the filter-side threads without damaging them. That could be as simple as two M20x1.5 nuts jammed against each other, but them's some big, hard-to-find nuts.

 

That's why I didn't "force it." However, it spun freely onto my son's car, and the Bosch spun freely onto mine. There is a technical term for a situation like this: weird.

 

Perhaps just cross-threaded?