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<blockquote data-quote="Ruger" data-source="post: 1852528" data-attributes="member: 1594"><p>So, first oil change on my wife's new Toyota Venza hybrid. The oil filter is tiny and it was stuck tight. The boys at the assembly plant really got me. Apparently they didn't lube the oil filter gasket, and they torqued it down with the aid of a team of oxen. The confines are too tight to get both hands on the filter, and in fact too tight to get a good grip with one hand. As it turned out, it wouldn't have mattered if I could get both hands on it. It's a really small filter, so the only filter wrench I have that would fit is a strap wrench - which did nothing but bend the filter.</p><p></p><p>So I drove into town in the middle of a snowstorm to buy one of those cap-type wrenches with the facets that engage the facets on the filter. No go. The filter was on so tight that the facet engagement wasn't sufficient. The cap wrench would just turn in a notchy fashion on the filter rather than actually turning the filter. Soooo, YouTube. Check out this video. It worked! I had to roughen the filter with sandpaper, wrap the free end of the rope around a big end wrench so I could pull with both hands, put on a pair of leather gloves, and jack up the car so I could brace one foot against the front suspension, and the other knee against the front tire, but it worked. Remember this one, it might save your bacon one day. It did mine.</p><p></p><p>(BTW, the old school method of driving a long screwdriver through the filter and using that to turn the thing doesn't work nearly as well as in the old days when oil filter cans were made like old style steel beer cans. Oil filters are made of much thinner metal now. If you resort to the screwdriver method these days you run the risk of tearing the oil filter can rather than turning the filter, and that will greatly complicate your efforts to remove it.)</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]hM3DbbmNDno[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruger, post: 1852528, member: 1594"] So, first oil change on my wife's new Toyota Venza hybrid. The oil filter is tiny and it was stuck tight. The boys at the assembly plant really got me. Apparently they didn't lube the oil filter gasket, and they torqued it down with the aid of a team of oxen. The confines are too tight to get both hands on the filter, and in fact too tight to get a good grip with one hand. As it turned out, it wouldn't have mattered if I could get both hands on it. It's a really small filter, so the only filter wrench I have that would fit is a strap wrench - which did nothing but bend the filter. So I drove into town in the middle of a snowstorm to buy one of those cap-type wrenches with the facets that engage the facets on the filter. No go. The filter was on so tight that the facet engagement wasn't sufficient. The cap wrench would just turn in a notchy fashion on the filter rather than actually turning the filter. Soooo, YouTube. Check out this video. It worked! I had to roughen the filter with sandpaper, wrap the free end of the rope around a big end wrench so I could pull with both hands, put on a pair of leather gloves, and jack up the car so I could brace one foot against the front suspension, and the other knee against the front tire, but it worked. Remember this one, it might save your bacon one day. It did mine. (BTW, the old school method of driving a long screwdriver through the filter and using that to turn the thing doesn't work nearly as well as in the old days when oil filter cans were made like old style steel beer cans. Oil filters are made of much thinner metal now. If you resort to the screwdriver method these days you run the risk of tearing the oil filter can rather than turning the filter, and that will greatly complicate your efforts to remove it.) [MEDIA=youtube]hM3DbbmNDno[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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