That happened to my brother in law. He’s a full time auto mechanic.
Forgot to look for the rubber ring for the oil filter on a customer car
Put the new filter on with the old rubber still in place.
Customer called 20 mins later saying the engine light and oil pressure light was on.
He had to drive out with extra oil and a new filter to the customer that’s on bye side of the road.
Over tightened filters....
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Well a 3 foot prybar trough the side of the filter finally gave me enough leverage to loosen the filter.......what a battle
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Filters come out a lot easier off of a hot engine. Make sure your engine oil is hot. The only downside is you can get burns from hot oil/filters if you don’t protect yourself.
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They do that because they don't want to do it too loose, and then the system sucks air and the driver complains about bad fuel mileage and low power. -
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My old man had a coolant filter on his truck that some ape must've cinched down with a 10 foot snipe at the factory. Ended up breaking the crimp off the base, so the metal shell just spun loosely. Of course being an ISX that filter is buried inside the frame rail. Ended up taking it to a shop where they cut the shell off and then used an air hammer on the remaining part of the filter to break it loose and spin it off.
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I bought one of these and it will remove any over tightened oil filter. Basic cam design and works fantastic. It's adjustable to many sizes. They sell bigger ones alsoloudtom Thanks this.
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