Oil Filter Removal

[DaSmeg]

Hi guys, bit of an urgent one here, while the wife is on mataternity leave thought i would save some bucks and drop the oil myself, problem is the oil filter has gone through 2 filter straps! any ideas on how too get the friggin thing out, the only way i can think of is too gut the filter and rip it apart bit by slow friggin bit, oh its on a 08 d22 2.5cr, any thought and ideas appreciated

 

[brendan]

sick your 1/2 inch ratchet on the end in the square

 

[RustyNav09]

Yd25 motor doesn't have the same filter setup as the zd30 so there is no square drive in top. I have a filter clamp it has like 3 claws and it grabs the ribs around the outside if through filter. I have had no dramas with it. If the filter is tight it will squash the filter like a coke can but it will get it off.

Goodluck

 

[DaSmeg]

I came across a strap that is made up of bike chain pretty much and it got the bloody thing thank god

 

[RustyNav09]

Good stuff. Straps just don't cut it. Need something to grab the filter not slide on it.

 

[DaSmeg]

Good stuff. Straps just don't cut it. Need something to grab the filter not slide on it.

no shit there Rusty, my arsehole was getting tighter and tighter there for a bit espescially since the filter was starting too look like road kill

 

[RustyNav09]

I had to do a filter change on the wifey car and used the claw design it was on so dam tight it was completely mangled by the time it came off.

 

[jjohn]

See a picture of the claw type wrench on Western Filters web site. $10 @ supacheap or $40 odd for the Kingchrome jobby.

 

[d22dave]

When all else fails punch a screwdriver through it, Makes a mess but desperate times call for desperate measures. I use a chain type tool at work works like vice grips with a chain

 

[scooba_285]

oil filter pliers from supercheap

 

[Krankin]

When all else fails punch a screwdriver through it, Makes a mess but desperate times call for desperate measures. type tool at

No room in there to do it that way..

 

[Krankin]

As has been mentioned before in another thread on this subject....
the remover with the three fingers and 1/2 inch drive socket will do the job or the more expensive tool as in the sockets that actually fit onto the end of the filters...you can get them in sets also from egay for example.



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[d22dave]

No room in there to do it that way..

Must be tight , Have never looked under the hood of yd 25

 

[DaSmeg]

Bloody was tight, i dont think i could have used the 3 pronged one with ratchet fitting at the top, but like i said the chain strap was a winner grip and rip

 

[Krankin]

Bloody was tight, i dont think i could have used the 3 pronged one with ratchet fitting at the top,

Yes you can.....thats what i use.





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[scooba_285]

As has been mentioned before in another thread on this subject....
the remover with the three fingers and 1/2 inch drive socket will do the job or the more expensive tool as in the sockets that actually fit onto the end of the filters...you can get them in sets also from egay for example.



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lol "egay" haha

 

[d22dave]

lol "egay" haha

Thats ebay for homosexuals. Not my choice of tool

 

[KraftyPg]

Does that mean Fleabay is the ebay for doggies?

 

[d22dave]

And seabay is for fishes


the dribble i shit

 

[Doughboy]

I had the same problem , the book on the 2.5 says something about taking the filter block off, I then gave up .I have never seen a filter on so tight , thought I was doing something wrong !