Changed my oil (rant)

I needed to change my oil, so I figured I'd take it to my friends shop class and do it myself there and make it a little easier by using a lift. Not to mention the stupid home owners association nazis on my street fine you $70 for working on cars.

So anyway, I get it on the lift without any trouble, get the skidplate off, and start draining my oil. After it finished draining, I move on to the filter. Apparently, the last person to work on my car was the incredible hulk. The filter was on so tight that I broke an oil filter wrench, cracked the old filter, and it was still stuck. I lowered the car and tried a different approach by taking off the coolant resovior. Still couldn't get it off. I even tried putting channel locks on the filter and muscling it out. Finally, after just about everyone in the shop had tried, the teacher came over and gave it a try. By now, my friends were telling my that I should think about calling a tow truck since the shop closes at 10pm, and it was about 9:30. Finally, at 9:40, we got it off, using a smaller, different filter wrench that barely fit on the filter. We replaced the filter, got the car down, and checked for leaks. Nothing. I lifted it back up, put the skidplate back on, and left. That was the longest oil change I'd ever done. It took me from 8:30 till 9:45 all because some idiot at the dealership over tightened the filter.

Alright, I got my rant out. At least now I know its not over tightened.

Hmm sounds like you had fun. That's messed up you cant work on your car in your own drive way.

Yeah, the guy across the street from me was changing a core plug on his car, when he was caught they slapped him with a $70 fine. He figured its a $5 part, and a $70 fine: $75 vs $300 to have a shop do it. He went down to the board meeting the next week and thanked them for it.

wtf, why cant u work on ur cars?

next time just puncture the filter with a large screw driver and wrench on it with that, that's helped me many times

Yep, exactly. Screw driver always gets it out for me!

Didja remember to wipe a lil of teh old oil around teh rubber seal of the NEW filter? Cud be that teh prev knucklehead din't to that... The engine heat can cause teh rubber to vulcanize (read: weld itself) to the engine, sometimes...

explain the screwdriver thing again. I sometimes have troubkle with the filter. Never takes me that long but sometimes like 10 min. Its annoying.

just jam a screwdriver (the bigger the better) into the filter itself and use it for torque

Make DOUBLE-DAMN sure that your replacement filter is the CORRECT replacement filter if you go that route, or, have a second car, or buddy handy to drive you to the auto parts store, if it turns out not to be the right one...

(I speak frum experience)

so i just stab it in to the filter an dtrun it like a scredriver. Will the oil come spilling out the bottom of it?

It'll actually come squirting out of the entry and exit holes you punch through the sides of teh filter when you skewer it... Again, experience talking

yea, you'll get oil dripping out of the hole you puncture...you don't twist the screwdriver though, you wrench on it

jazz, that's a DAMN good point to think about if you use this technique, having the wrong filter after killing the old one would SUCK

so i would stab it in and then use a wrench on teh screwdriver to turn it? I should always use teh oil filter wrench and use this as a last resort?

no no, you use the screwdriver to twist the filter (when i said wrench i just mean torquing the driver, not actually using a wrench)....yes, this is a last resort, cause it is a little messier than the normal way, but it works very well (sometimes i won't even mess with a filter wrench, i'll just go at it the screwdriver)...here's what it looks like...


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Yeah, the filter-ka-bob method should ALWAYS be used ONLY as a last resort!!! It kinda wrecks the filter, makes a mess, and prevents you from using any reasonable mewthods after stabbing your filter. Again, one last time before I shut down for the night, MAKE DAMN SURE YOU HAVE THE CORRECT REPLACEMENT FILTER BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS METHOD!!!!!!!!! Or, a way to get to the auto parts store should if you're rong.

i already i have bought 2 of them of worldimpex.com

Hey Brian, you forgot to show the oil squirting every which way when you puncture the filter

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ORIGINAL: AWDaholic

Hey Brian, you forgot to show the oil squirting every which way when you puncture the filter

youre right...here's a more accurate depiction of the situation....




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I suppose that would have been fine, considering the filter was already cracked from the oil filter wrench. I did oil up the filter. My shop teacher told us about that same thing when he was demonstrating the oil change.

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ORIGINAL: AWDaholic

Hey Brian, you forgot to show the oil squirting every which way when you puncture the filter

youre right...here's a more accurate depiction of the situation....




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I neglected to mention earlier how well you captured teh essence that is JAZZ, A. T. Jazz (the "A.T." stands fo "ALL THAT"). Gud job muhMan

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ORIGINAL: bentframe

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ORIGINAL: AWDaholic

Hey Brian, you forgot to show the oil squirting every which way when you puncture the filter

youre right...here's a more accurate depiction of the situation....




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I neglected to mention earlier how well you captured teh essence that is JAZZ, A. T. Jazz (the "A.T." stands fo "ALL THAT"). Gud job muhMan

thank you, it took me a couple hours to get it just right

wow that is the best art i have ever seen i think we need to put it in the PS skills competition might just win... hey can i use that for my sig

i guess i could let you use it in your sig...but if jazz wants it, he's got dibs, cause his out-of-date ass hasn't had a pic in his sig ever...thanks though, i'm pretty much a photoshop pro, as you can see

/\/\/\I'll take you up on thet until I can remember what I named the folder I saved teh pics of my car into... As soon as I get home