The Stuck Oil Filter Rope Trick

[Ruger]

If you're removing the filter could have gotten a long flat screwdriver and stabbed a hole in it at an angle and gotten it loose? Or no room to even try ?

No. The factory Toyota filer can bent so readily that I was sure that doing the old school screwdriver trick would just tear the sheetmetal can. I mentioned that in post #1.

 

[Ruger]

I was gonna say anyone else just stab it with a screwdriver and loosen it that way? I don't know whats wrong w people that they feel the need to over tighten these things?

Ask the guys at the Toyota engine assembly plant. This was first oil change on a new car that was only weeks old.

 

[thatJeepguy]

No. The factory Toyota filer can bent so readily that I was sure that doing the old school screwdriver trick would just tear the sheetmetal can. I mentioned that in post #1.

You'd think that but because you're working with both axis it tends to work.

 

[Ruger]

You'd think that but because you're working with both axis it tends to work.

There are plenty of videos documenting people ripping a filter to pieces and having only the mounting plate to work with. Here is one example:

The rope trick solution was much, much less problematic and it worked just fine. No surgery required. Now I have a tool that, just in case this happens again (unlikely - I do my own work, lube the filter gasket, and don't torque the filter on with a anything other than my hands), I won't be nearly as bothered or challenged.

 

[Meat2022]

All that to get a filter off lol, that's nuts

 

[Ruger]

All that to get a filter off lol, that's nuts

Yes sir, it was. I was very concerned that I had incapacitated my wife's new car.
That, as you might imagine, would not have been met with abundant joy.