I can't get my Oil Filter Off! Urg!
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I can't get my Oil Filter Off! Urg! The service people put it on too tight. those bastards. I can't get it off to to my oil change. I changed oil, but not filter. Nad the filter its starting to dent. WTF! 
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Rep Power: 261 buy one of those filter clamps. I not sure what they are called, but they look like a clamp, but its designed to take off oil filters. I always used that on my car, no matter how tight the filter is. I usual don't put my filter that tight, but filter wrench thingy helps out. Makes the job so much easier.
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Rep Power: 0 get a rag. better yet- a rubber rag... the best thing to do is spend $5 on an oil filter wrench. not the adjustable kind. they sell various sizes, plugs right into a regular wrench.
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Rep Power: 307 used all off the suggested above prior to posting this thread. i finnaly got it off using a wrench, that was hella big. I fixed it. thanks everyone
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Rep Power: 0 i used a leather belt to take my filter off for my first oil change because they put the thing on too damn tight. the wrench i had was too small in the garage and the plastic cap wrench would just slip (honda makes a metal oil cap wrench).
since i'm the only person that does oil changes on the car, there is no reason to go cave man on it. i don't trust service people to change my oil. they always jacked something up on my past car on simple oil change services or touched air filter housings and when i told them not to and not clamp the housing back on tight, so my car revs strange with lost power until i parked a block down the road to clamp the air filter housing down right. all the trouble of babysitting someone else to do it....its just easier to change it yourself.
i agree - the filter is a pain if its torqued down by morons.
ps - be careful with the screwdriver (last resort). there have been horror stories of others who have punctured the filter with a screwdriver at a bad angle and end up tearing off the end of the filter like a can opener leaving the threaded portion still on the engine. you can imagine the college words that come out of someones mouth that experiences that mess.
since i'm the only person that does oil changes on the car, there is no reason to go cave man on it. i don't trust service people to change my oil. they always jacked something up on my past car on simple oil change services or touched air filter housings and when i told them not to and not clamp the housing back on tight, so my car revs strange with lost power until i parked a block down the road to clamp the air filter housing down right. all the trouble of babysitting someone else to do it....its just easier to change it yourself.
i agree - the filter is a pain if its torqued down by morons.
ps - be careful with the screwdriver (last resort). there have been horror stories of others who have punctured the filter with a screwdriver at a bad angle and end up tearing off the end of the filter like a can opener leaving the threaded portion still on the engine. you can imagine the college words that come out of someones mouth that experiences that mess.
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