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Really need some help, stuck oil filter

FriboRage

FriboRage

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I've been trying for over 3 hours to get this filter off, I tried using a cloth, my barehand.. one of those ones that constrict and get tighter as you apply force, and then I read to drive a screw driver through it and use that to get some leverage... it just tore the metal around the hole.

My hand is killing me already, and I just want the damned filter off. Can anyone help here?

I even used this vice grip thing from Fram and that just broke the casing worse. :th_shakinghead2:
 


Dumb question but are you turning the right way.

I would have said screw driver too but you already did that. Maybe get the crew driver ot go all the way threw the filter and turn. Do you have one of those things that go on the bottom of the filter and you turn it with a socket wrench?
 
Ok, another dumb question just to be positive.

Let's say the front of the filter (The portion of it facing the headlights, or front of the car).

Which way, Left or Right, would I want that front facing part to turn?
 
:th_doh:

turn it like it's going from the Driver side headlight, to the passenger side headlight, round toward the back of the car.

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Well, 4 other guys along with myself worked on it for almost 5 hours and it barely moved. We tried damn near everything imaginable. It's just mutilated to hell now. One of my friends who was there tonight, his dad is a genius at automotive problem solving, and generally we have a joke that "If it cant be done, Bob's dad hasnt tried it yet", lol. So Im hoping as it's my daily driver.

So, there's nowhere left to poke a hole with a screw driver, none of the wrenches fit, and 5 fully grown men were unable to move it by hand.

Given the diagram, we were indeed moving it in the right direction.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Ugh, how the simplest things can turn into such an ordeal. Im tired and defeated, so bed time, lol.
 
Go get another oil filter adapter...unbolt the the 4 bolts behind the filter...get a new gasket and '04+ spring kit too...and toss it along with the filter if thats the case. It might be a sh1tty deal but it'll get you back on the road.
 
Try turning it with a pair of channel lock pliers. Keep the jaws near the top of the filter (near O-ring).
 
could perhaps try using a cold chisel and a hammer and get it to turn with it. Like the trick you use to get rounded bolts out. the shock helps knock it loose and the chisel will dig in to get it to turn.

Whatever you do don't let the chisel hit the mating surface on the oil filter adapter
 


Got it :th_peaceout:

It took much blood, sweat, tears, and lots of cursing. But it finally started to budge, and then came loose.

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This handy little tool is what made it possible...
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_...odeling&psid=FROOGLE01&sid=IDx20070921x00003a

I ran my finger around the edges of the mating surface to feel if it was ok, and a black, torn gasket fell out. There's already a red one in the purolator in my hand, so I guess the guy who changed my oil previously didnt check for the old gasket when he removed the old filter... because this black gasket fits directly over the red one on the purolator.

Yay for inheriting other people's mistakes!

Question is, there's no gasket that's supposed to be in the mating surface on the car, is there? Whatever fell out of there has to be from an old filter, right?
 
yep. Only gasket supposed to be there is the rubber Oring on the oil filter. And when you put the new filter on you only go a little past hand tight
 
Well, it's all full of oil and running fine now.

Thank you guys so much for helping out someone with the most noobish things imaginable :th_thumbsup-wink:

Your patience is appreciated.
 
thats freakin crazy man. my grandpa introduced me to that exact tool for the first time in my life just last weekend. amazing invention! he uses his to take the 8 inch wide oil filter off this john deere tractor. his has a slot on the end where a 3/8 inch drive socket wrench fits in
 


that story reminds me of when i work on cars, anything that can go wrong usually does... It's nice working on an 04 though, less rust...
glad you got it off dude! good job!
 
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