URGENT - stupid Q, how to use oil filter spanner

Post by **campbell** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:17 am

How do these fabric belt plus socket type oil filter spanners work?

Robin's lent me one to do my oil change, I've tried coiling the socket up inside the fabric belt whilst twisted round the filter, and torquing with the socket handle, but all that's happening is the filter body is deforming

It's gone midnight, the oil change is but half done, I need to put the car together by about 1am to take stuff back to Robin's...HELP!

tut · Post by **tut** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:23 am

I have not used one Campbell, but I have put a large screwdriver through the filter before now and used that to unscrew it.

tut

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:25 am

Sounds like you're doing kind of the right thing with the . If all else fails, hammer a screwdriver through the filter, get very messy, clean up lots of oil but get the filter off no problem.

Post by **campbell** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:28 am

cheers boys!

back off to give it another go...animaliser at the ready...

Post by **campbell** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:54 am

Thanks fellas, applied a bit more grit n determination and the fecker shifted very very slowly eventually.

Just managed to swap it, refill the oil, slap the undertray back on and get Robin's ramps back to him in time for his 2am departure for Brands Hatch!!!

Good old SE...not just there for the nasty things in life

tut · Post by **tut** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:25 am

Its about time that he grew up instead of gallivanting around the Country like this..........

tut