Stuck and crushed oil filter

[Dsc]

A couple of things I have noticed about these oil filters are the metal can has become a lot thinner. When I hand tighten a filter it will "dent" and then flex back. Never had that a few years ago and I know that I am not getting stronger with age.
Another is to be careful using a flute wrench. I have always used Wix filters but the flute number used to be 15 and now is 14 if I remember correctly on the 51348.
i have always oiled the gasket and did hand tight over 40 years. But I now snug and give about a quarter turn with the wrench. However snug is still ambiguous when describing a method.

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[Old NaCl]

https://a.co/d/iTPtlrP
This tool or equivalent and this issue you had op will be a thing of the past

Added to Amazon cart thank you. This probably would of helped once the strap wrench crushed the can .

An idea of how secured this sob was. I was rocking the motor in the mounts.

 

[NotBudule2]

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That looks a little hard to pronounce in a rage... I like to work in totally unrelated people, like, "Mary Poppins" , and then just freelance from there, working the curse words in as I go...(of couse it starts off "Mary F'n Poppins" with the emphasis on her now new middle name but then you have to get creative to keep it going ).. they don't have to rhyme, this isn't a song, it's rage ?...

 

[Jamie Jack]

The Amazon wrench works well; if the filter is not tight. If the filter is tight, it simply won't grip it tight enough to spin it off. I had to put a hose clamp around the wrench/filter to get enough grip to spin off a tough filter. Just hand tighten the new filter; it won't leak and it will come off easy the next time.

 

[Cmar]

https://a.co/d/iTPtlrP
This tool or equivalent and this issue you had op will be a thing of the past

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OR something like this:

 

[Cmar]

The FJ 40 had the filter mounted with the bottom facing down, no way to remove it without oil leaking out. I put wax paper down to route it to the floor where i had the pan. At least it was on top and to the side of the engine.

In fairness FJ40 engines were practically indestructible, slow, heavy, fuel drinkers, but indestructible, the diesel models even more so, in their case the vehicle usually rusted away around them.

 

[theprinceofsnj]

I haven't done my own oil changes since I bought my Used 2014 Fiesta S in 2014.

 

[Old NaCl]

Didn't know it was legal to do your own oil in NJ, I mean they don't trust you to pump your own gas.

 

[LawnMM]

The Motivx tool is better

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