Another oil filter horror story

[black_demon69]

I have removed one with an air chisel once....

had to use cutting torch on threaded base once

 

[bmerr98]

Oil the gasket, spin til contact and 3/4 turn. All good under the hood.

 

[Mrtin]

on second thought

Well after reading these stories about air chisels and 25k on one filter, I guess I got off pretty easily. Instead of "horror story" I should have called it "relatively small inconvenience".

 

[adsm08]

had to use cutting torch on threaded base once

Oh, that reminds me. One of the first ones I did at a shop was on way too tight, when I finally got out off the threaded base came out with it.

 

[black_demon69]

Oh, that reminds me. One of the first ones I did at a shop was on way too tight, when I finally got out off the threaded base came out with it.

I've seen that too

kind of off subject but years ago had a customer who had worn the rotors down so far they were into the vents and pistons on the calipers..

or a customer that had the center just about break all the way out on one of his front wheels an tried insisting that i weld it. i said no and he left in a huff got to light on the corner and the wheel broke while he was sitting there waiting for it to turn green. it cost $100 to tow it back to the shop (shop was on the corner of the same intersection) and the next morning we put a new tire and wheel on it..

 

[sbsrlewis]

Shortly after I bought my uncles dodge d3500 cummins I happened to be driving thru the town he lives in and needed the oil changed so I took it to the place he always used. 3000+ miles later I was driving home from work one day and seen a lot of smoke behind me so I checked the gauges and I seen the oil pressure gauge drop to nothing so I turned it off and coasted to the side of the road. Oil was pouring from top of the filter. When I removed the filter (on the side of the road. Don't tell Al Gore.) there turned out to be 3 gaskets on there!! Luckily I didn't hurt the engine and I called the place that did the oil change and they said if I brought it back to them they would do the next one free!! Needless to say I have done all the other changes myself. LOL.


Steve

 

[Will]

First off--there is no such thing as an emergency oil change. There just isn't.

Next thing is--when you go to a place that rotates employees faster than the fans in an A10 Thunderbolt II engines, you shouldn't bitch about the outcome. The guy that just screwed up your truck was just fired for hawking a blob of chew into the curly fry oil the week prior.

The last thing is--pipe wrench. The way you get a pesky filter off is with a pipe wrench. I don't own any kind of oil filter wrench. I own 3 sizes of pipe wrench. I have a little one that is good for errant screws. I have a bigger one good for household plumbing. I have a biggest one that can handle oil filters up to 7.3 Powerstroke, 6.2 GM diesel and DT360 Navistar which has two filters, each large enough to drown a cat in.

 

[97RangerXLT]

I like the way you think Will.

the one issue is that most cars today you can't get a pipe wrench big enough to remove the filter on the filter and still have any room to turn it (if you can even get it on the filter.) Unless you are working on a large full frame rear wheel drive vehicle, there is just not enough space to get that big of a wrench on them.

Strap wrenches work on the same principle, but usually are not strong enough to get a really tight oil filter off, and I have even run into space issues with those on some fwd cars.

AJ