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Jakkq · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 810 Location: Omaha, Nebraska

I can't get anywhere! Days and days of trying to get the piece of shit oil filter off and it hasn't budged. I want to turn the car over and take an axe to it!!!

I have tried everything from pliers, screwdriver impact, oil filter wrench, the belt trick, the swivel oil filter grasping tool, hammer, fist, and plenty of PB blaster and such.

I need to get to one of the bolts to remove the Alternator, but I cannot get to it without removing the oil filter, which now has a hole in it, and it has had so much force and pressure turning that it literally dents every time I put too much pressure on it.
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Joes924Racer · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:07 am Post subject:

Get a long bladed screwdriver and put it all the way thru the filter.
grab the handle and twist the filter off..

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brealytrent · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Goldsboro, NC

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Jakkq · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 810 Location: Omaha, Nebraska

I can't use the screwdriver anymore. Like I said, the filter has had tons of pressure on it, and it's just denting in. I have a hole through the filter, but if I try and twist it with a screwdriver, it's going to tear at the filter and rip in two like a pop can.
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jacob · Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Mansfield, Oh

At this point, you have tried everything else, maybe it would not be a bad thing if you tore off the outer tin can so that you can get to the mounting plate of the oil filter. If you have an old filter around. tear it open first and see if that might help you.

Jakkq · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 810 Location: Omaha, Nebraska

I'll give it some more tries tomorrow. Between this and stuck bolts and screws, I can't seem to get anywhere at all. Ugh.
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emoore924 · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2822

Yeah, I'd be at the rip-tear-shred phase at this point. Probably not going to damage the threads, but you'll just destroy the filter housing, which I think is probably what you want. Once you break the seal, it'll come off.

jacob · Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Mansfield, Oh

Most filters have a set of holes around the top.

If you have a set of long nose angled pliers around, you might be able to get the nose of the pliers into the holes and get enough leverage to get the mounting plate off.

Hope this helps.
Good luck!

924RACR · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:24 pm Post subject:

I've on some occasions had to use a screwdriver and hammer to start that plate turning, after ripping the rest of the filter out of the way.

That's why I always pre-lube the filter threads and seal now, so the oil filter is less likely to jam on.
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924aussie · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:33 pm Post subject:

Did you turn it the other way to help crack the seal first ?

Try spraying WD40 on and let it soak overnight.

Whats the brick trick , is that the same as when you want to loosen a screw you rap it on the screw head first with a hammer ?

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Ozzie · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:44 am Post subject:

had same problem, bashed big screwdriver all the way through. casing tore but it came off as a big mangled chunk.
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mikebola · Joined: 07 Sep 2009 Posts: 361 Location: Parkside, PA

Can you fit any kind of oil filter wrench onto it? I have 3 kinds I use in my shop (the socket, the band, and the chain wrench)
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the_mad_electrician · Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 1073 Location: Central Georgia

Slam · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:35 am Post subject:

As above - cut filter body off, leaving mounting flange. Get a hammer and big screwdriver. Notch the filter flange and drive it counterclockwise with the hammer & screwdriver.

Interesting probelm.
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