How to remove your oil filter video...without a filter wrench!

[Mugsy19]

Great idea. Thank you for sharing.

[556ALPHA]

NICE!

[motocopter]

Crazy how tight they put them on. I had to hammer a screwdriver though the filter to get enough leverage to get it loose.

Ditto. Did the same for the first oil and filter change on the 2K8Z1K.   

[Rhino]

I used one of these:

http://www.toolking.com/1/k_tool_international_73730_1_2_inch_square_drive_nylon_strap_filter_wrench_1051747685.php

[Necron99]

Good video.  I use my kung fu grip. 

[Metal]

When I've had an overtightened oil filter and/or the absence of a wrench, I've always resorted to a method that a motorcycle mechanic showed me once. Get a medium sized phillips screwdriver with a fairly sharp point and with a few taps of a hammer, puncture thru one side of the oil filter to the other side (obviously, make sure you have a pan underneath). Once it's through, just a good tug on the screwdriver handle (as if it were a handle on an old sailing ship wheel) will typically rotate the oil filter loose. You can hand-loosen it once it's free.

[reesedp]

Prior to the Army, I did lube-n-tune for five years, and serviced thousands of vehicles.  It never ceased to amaze me how many time I had to use the pliers, cups, and claws.  I would say that the vast majority of the hundreds of different sizes and brands of filters had "Tighten to contact plus a half 1/2 turn" right on the side of the filter or the box it came in.   I have not had to use a wrench on one of mine since I was a teenager.  I have never had one loosen or leak either although failing to ensure the gasket came off with the old filter got me a couple of times back then.  It'll hold for a few seconds...

[Conrad]

Prior to the Army, I did lube-n-tune for five years, and serviced thousands of vehicles.  It never ceased to amaze me how many time I had to use the pliers, cups, and claws.  I would say that the vast majority of the hundreds of different sizes and brands of filters had "Tighten to contact plus a half 1/2 turn" right on the side of the filter or the box it came in.   I have not had to use a wrench on one of mine since I was a teenager.  I have never had one loosen or leak either although failing to ensure the gasket came off with the old filter got me a couple of times back then.  It'll hold for a few seconds...

I had one like that, in which the old gasket didn't come off with the old filter. Started her up and oil sprayed everywhere. It's become a habit now to check that as soon as I spin off the old filter.

[lather]

Good video.  I use my kung fu grip. 

I have never needed a tool. I have a bionic grip. My thumb was shattered in a crash and the doctor rebuilt it stronger than before.

[reesedp]

I have never needed a tool. I have a bionic grip. My thumb was shattered in a crash and the doctor rebuilt it stronger than before.

Better and faster too?  Cost roughly $6,000,000 in 1980 dollars?

[Rhino]

Better and faster too?  Cost roughly $6,000,000 in 1980 dollars?

It's been what, 30 years since that show? But I can still hear the theme music in my head and the noise they use when he is lifting a tractor or something.

[BeaverMatt]

The title says "without a wrench".  I see a wrench being used.   

[VirginiaJim]

Let's not get hung up on titles and what's contained therein...    Threads morph...

[lather]

Better and faster too?  Cost roughly $6,000,000 in 1980 dollars?

Not faster, just stronger. And not pretty. But it only cost about $6000 in 1986.