Oil Filter - way to tight

[Pug59]

If I ever meet the gorilla that put the oil filter on my truck at the factory, I will have to shake his hand with a pair of channel lock pliers. I can only imagine the "3/4" marking on the filter was read to mean 3 or 4 more turns! I am not a frail person at 5'11" 275 lbs, 54" shoulders, but it took a good bit a strength to remove it.

 

[Prairie Dog]

I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get mine off. Last time they had to tear the crap out of my 93's to get it off. Took speedy lube 2 hours :-laf :-laf :-laf

Of course thats the only time I let anybody else change my oil.

I wonder if they put the filters on w/o oiling the rubber seals?

 

[dieselpilot1969]

I was amazed at what came flying off my truck when I first encountered this, last time a car made me this mad the left front fender wound up in the street!

 

[BSkinner]

On my airplane filters, I smeared the gasket with Dow Corning DC-4 instead of oil. This made the filter much easier to remove than when I used to use oil. I wonder if this would be a benefit on our Dodge filters?



Bob

 

[ttreibel]

Every once in awhile you here about that mine took like 2 hours to finally get off broke a plastic 6in1 wrench to boot.



There was no oil lubricating the gasket and it just would not slip!



I now have a metal wrench I found at Napa for 10 bucks and I do lubricate the gasket.

 

[y-knot]

Every new truck, or car I have gotten has had the darn oil filter way to tight. I don't know why, I guess they don't want anything to leak, hand tight is all you need. I had a chevy, and the first oil change the filter was so tight, while attempting to loosen it, the thing collapsed. Ended up running a large screwdriver thru it, and twisting it off.

 

[Pug59]

I agree... . helped a friend do the first change on a Ford Mustang and we used the screwdriver trick too. Only problem was the filter ripped off and all he had left was a carcas. While I was trying to figure a way to get the filter wrench back on, he got ****** and started on it with a hammer and chisel. It worked, but who knows what damaged he did in the long run.