I'm at a loss of words, I've been on my back for four hours f*cking with the oil filter. I hate the first oil change with a new car, P.O.'s always over tighten oil filters.
It gets worse. I tried all different types, strap type wrench, thing that goes on ratchet, even some pos claw thing I found at walmart at 9pm. Nothing budged. Before some genius asks (lefty loosy?), yes I was trying to spin in the correct direction.
So it occurs to me that my father once told me you can stab a filter with a screwdriver and twist. I try it, and oil in my hair, all over the garage floor, and a severely mangled filter. At that point the best idea I could come up with was to remove the entire housing. Futzed with it like that for an hour, and finally I just took the whole oil cooler and lines out.
Here's some pictures so you can laugh at my misfortune. The bugger is still on there and I tried to cold chisel the mating surface and found what appears to be GASKET SEALANT!!!! I'm going to shoot the man who did that.
So I'm screwed, I don't know how to get the stub off the housing. I've tried drifting the holes in the base of the filter body to no avail. I got a car with a big hole in the side of the engine and no oil. Just on the floor.
I hope tomorrow to get creative and separate the two, get to the dealership for some gaskets, and put everything back together again.
I don't suppose there is an oil cooler delete kit that would allow me to spin the filter directly on to the block is there??
It gets worse. I tried all different types, strap type wrench, thing that goes on ratchet, even some pos claw thing I found at walmart at 9pm. Nothing budged. Before some genius asks (lefty loosy?), yes I was trying to spin in the correct direction.
So it occurs to me that my father once told me you can stab a filter with a screwdriver and twist. I try it, and oil in my hair, all over the garage floor, and a severely mangled filter. At that point the best idea I could come up with was to remove the entire housing. Futzed with it like that for an hour, and finally I just took the whole oil cooler and lines out.
Here's some pictures so you can laugh at my misfortune. The bugger is still on there and I tried to cold chisel the mating surface and found what appears to be GASKET SEALANT!!!! I'm going to shoot the man who did that.
So I'm screwed, I don't know how to get the stub off the housing. I've tried drifting the holes in the base of the filter body to no avail. I got a car with a big hole in the side of the engine and no oil. Just on the floor.
I hope tomorrow to get creative and separate the two, get to the dealership for some gaskets, and put everything back together again.
I don't suppose there is an oil cooler delete kit that would allow me to spin the filter directly on to the block is there??
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