Oil Filter is Tight, any suggestions

[Shaguar47]

I had a local shop do my last oil change and they tightened up the filter just a little too much. It's a mobil filter and there is no grip stuff on it so what methods are there on getting one loose?

 

[aaren99]

you can use a small strap wrench, or you can just look in the oil dept of autozone or walmart and they have tools to remove oil filters there. Once i had to puncture the oil filter with a screwdriver and use the screwdriver to turn the oil filter but that would be hard on a honda.

 

[a100100]

what he said ^^^^^^

 

[Shaguar47]

I'll stop by autozone and see what they got. Thanks

 

[oc_civic]

Once i had to puncture the oil filter with a screwdriver and use the screwdriver to turn the oil filter but that would be hard on a honda.

messy but its the one thing that will work just abotu every time..

 

[spook4thecia]

yeah man I had the same problem last change. let the filter go another change and I'm doin it tomorrow. just bought my solution @ pepboys but autozone's got it too. they are sockets that fit different sizes of filters that go on like a 1/2" driver. that oughta give u the torque u need

 

[chestercivic]

I use an oil filter wrench. It looks like a big pair of pliers with grooves on it.

 

[1337 | RCE]

i used a strap wrench once. it was tough to get it in there right, but it worked eventually.

 

[tnk]

my friend didnt have a oil filter wrench one time so we had to get ghetto, we got a sheet of sand paper, wrapped it around the filter to get grip and twist like hell. it took 3 of us to twist that bish off.

 

[DANgerousEK]

Channel locks work every time.

 

[sohclubkid]

i use a leather belt... it works well most of the time.

 

[j_fukin_t]

messy but its the one thing that will work just abotu every time..

i've had to do that cause i was the only one there when doing so i couldn't just go get a wrench, but they do make oil filter adapters that will simply go on the end of a ratchet, & for the record honda can kiss my ass on the location of their oil filters

 

[jdmallen97]

i use the oil filter wrench i stole from honda

 

[nitebeest]

Last time I was doing an oil change on my friends Accord we had the same problem with the shop filter. He didn't have anything to grip it with so I just used a shop towel to wipe off as much oil from my hands and kept trying to twist and twist for a good 20 minutes. Finally came off. It's things like that that make an oil change feel like a big job.