>>On the other hand, I shreded a oil filter can on my old Mazda Navajo
>>and had to turn it's base 1/16 in at a time. Talk about your 3 hour
>>oil changes.
>>
>
> Been there! In fact, several times. Once had to pound a
> screwdriver through the side of a spin-on filter and use that
> to remove it when the friend I was helping change his oil didn't
> have an oil filter wrench of the right type.
>
> :-)
>
>
Right, that's what I did. But there wasn't enough room for the
screwdriver and it tore the can. I couldn't bend the base of the
can after I'd cut away all of it's side. So I had to stick a screwdriver
through a hole into a little depression in the block of the engine and
pry it, it would move what was left of the filter 1/16 of an inch.
Finally, after enough pressure was off the rubber, I was able to get
it off.
I never changed oil in that stupid truck again. I took it to Rapid Oil
Change. I think I may put filters on too tight. :-)
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