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So I’m performing oil & filter change on my P-car (first sense I got it) and decided to go with Castrol’s Syntec 5W50 (dang near $80 WTF!?!?), a new Mahle filter and a new crush washer.
Something I didn’t think about before starting was removing the old oil filter that is much skinner than the oil filters of my other vehicles. Not to be deterred – looking at the old filter looks as if I could almost get both hands around it. So I try to muscle it out’a there. But the last guy who changed the [censored] thing must’ve been a real Magilla Gorilla because it wouldn’t budge. Crap! Whatever happened to “hand” tight ace!?! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif
Anyway, I take a quick trip over to the local auto parts store with the new filter, to see if I can find a filter tool. Found one that fits over the end of the filter and you just use a 3/8” driver to remove the old filter. But upon return I try the tool and I’ll be damned if it doesn’t slip when I apply pressure to it. Again the Gorilla who put this thing on really cranked on it.
I was just about to do the old Screwdriver through the filter but decided to give one more thing a try first. I took one of the old filter clamp tools and tucked a couple of bolts up in it before I clamped it down. It slipped too but not before moving the old filter about an 8th of an inch. Whoo-Ho! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
That did the trick using the new tool I’d purchased I had the filter off and replaced within a couple of minutes. Poured in the oil and removed the coil wire from the dizzy and cranked the engine using the starter to circulate the oil in the system.
All that work just to change an oil filter. Thanks Magilla Gorilla! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif
Something I didn’t think about before starting was removing the old oil filter that is much skinner than the oil filters of my other vehicles. Not to be deterred – looking at the old filter looks as if I could almost get both hands around it. So I try to muscle it out’a there. But the last guy who changed the [censored] thing must’ve been a real Magilla Gorilla because it wouldn’t budge. Crap! Whatever happened to “hand” tight ace!?! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif
Anyway, I take a quick trip over to the local auto parts store with the new filter, to see if I can find a filter tool. Found one that fits over the end of the filter and you just use a 3/8” driver to remove the old filter. But upon return I try the tool and I’ll be damned if it doesn’t slip when I apply pressure to it. Again the Gorilla who put this thing on really cranked on it.
I was just about to do the old Screwdriver through the filter but decided to give one more thing a try first. I took one of the old filter clamp tools and tucked a couple of bolts up in it before I clamped it down. It slipped too but not before moving the old filter about an 8th of an inch. Whoo-Ho! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
That did the trick using the new tool I’d purchased I had the filter off and replaced within a couple of minutes. Poured in the oil and removed the coil wire from the dizzy and cranked the engine using the starter to circulate the oil in the system.
All that work just to change an oil filter. Thanks Magilla Gorilla! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif
