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#21

04-01-2021 | 10:53 AM

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From: Clayton MI

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Originally Posted by 1997JollyGreenGiant

Harbor Freight sells a locking oil filter wrench that makes removing a stuck filter pretty easy: https://www.harborfreight.com/lockin...nch-63696.html

In the past I've driven a screwdriver through the oil filter, but that didn't end well for me.

Yeah, you tend to get a bath that way........

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04-01-2021 | 02:16 PM

1997JollyGreenGiant

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Yeah, you tend to get a bath that way........

That, and when I turned the screwdriver to loosen the oil filter, it just shredded the steel the filter was made from and didn't loosen the filter, so I had half an oil filter stuck on the engine.

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04-01-2021 | 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by 1997JollyGreenGiant

That, and when I turned the screwdriver to loosen the oil filter, it just shredded the steel the filter was made from and didn't loosen the filter, so I had half an oil filter stuck on the engine.

Gotta drive it in near the mounting plate.

Learned that one the hard way too.

(but, low enough that you don't run the screwdriver into the threaded pipe it mounts to.)

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