RE: oil filter removal

["Ken" <alfaken@domain.elided>]

Although it's messy, I have been known to resort to driving a very large
screw driver through the filter and using it for leverage.  Maybe there
is a plus to the canister filters after all!

Ken
1969 1750 GTV

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided] On Behalf Of
CARIBOULH@domain.elided
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:20 PM
To: alfa@domain.elided
Subject: oil filter removal


Mark Denovich had written about removing an oil filter "I finally got it
off 
by using a C-clamp to crush a flat spot into it, and used a big-ass pair
of 
channel locks."

I forget which car it was, but years ago I was having a brutal time
removing 
an oil filter. I called my friend Tom, a professional Land Rover
mechanic, 
for advice. He said he'd stop by after work with his special oil filter 
removal tool that has a 100% success rate... great I said.

I spent the day thinking about what this special tool could look like.
Tom 
showed up and unveiled a Channel Lock 460... the 16 inch version. Walked

right over to the car, grabbed the oil filter between the jaws and in
the 
first try spun it 2/3 of a turn. Removal was a cinch after that. Tom
walked 
away grinning and saying that "these have never failed him yet".

I went out and bought a set soon after and you know what... they have
never 
field me yet!

Ed at Caribou
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