[Supras] 7mGTE oil filter remval trick

[joe at wilmcd.com]

At least that sounds cleaner than the screwdriver method...

-Joe

>     Hand tightening of the better oil filters with deeper section
> gaskets is more critical than with lower quality filters.  The gasket
> expands significantly and "walks outboard" under high pressure
> conditions and conseqently the filter can be hard to remove.  I'm using
> Purolator Pure1 filters at the moment and ran into this problem.  Steps
> were as follows.
>
>
>     1.  The only way to get the filter off is with a stamped steel
> "wrench" which fits the flutes at the the bottom of the can.  In my
> (our) situation the filter wrench requies a 3/8 universal joint and a
> long extension.  Yet the wrench began to slip.
>
>
>     2.  I used a bottle jack on the floor to upwards load the long
> extension to the swivel in a 1/2" breaker bar adapted to the former
> setup.  At first it felt as if the filter was coming off, but it turned
> out that the washer with a square hole for the drive was inside of the
> sheet metal wrench, and was only spot welded at 4 small places.  The
> spot welds let go.
>
>
>     3.  I gas welded the washer to the outside of the stamped wrench
> with the oxy torch, went through the same exercise with the bottle jack
> and the filter came off.   But it did take a 1/2 breaker bar (laying
> under the car without much arm leverage) to do it.
>
>
>        Hope this is of help to others with similar problems.
>
>
>        BernieK
>
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