oil filter wrench
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Most of the mega-auto part stores carry them. I use a pair of channel locks, usually cuz there handy. BTW: I punch a hole in the filter first and let it drain at the same time as the oil pan. Keeps the mess managable 
. It seems I can always find the channel locks (hammer) and a screw driver, that darn filter wrench is playin hide and seek.
. It seems I can always find the channel locks (hammer) and a screw driver, that darn filter wrench is playin hide and seek.
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From: Johnson City, TN.
Channel Locks are pliers and Cuda must have a big pair. I have seen the big ones like that for sale at Lowe's and Home Depot. I really like the idea of poking a hole in the filter. I can't believe I haven't thought of that before now. I have been changing my PSD oil for 10 years and have run oil down my arm too many times to count. Guess I am showing my ignorance.
FOREIGN GURU
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From: Celaya, Gto. MX
ooh, are thoes which you can wide or narrow the pliers sliding one part to another, and looks like a parrot, right?, my father call them "cotorras" in Spanish and I have some of differents sizes, ones really large, maybe like that of Cuda.
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If you go to a parts store for the big boys, like Freightliner, they have a filter wrench that is a piece of cloth strap on a 5/8" drive post. It's big enough to take off a semi's filter, yet because it's cloth, it can wrap around the post and get small enough for my SD, or even my daughter's Taurus. It doesn't slip and has crushed a filter yet.
You can be proud of it.
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From: MICHIGAN
Originally Posted by RÖENTGEEP
ooh, are thoes which you can wide or narrow the pliers sliding one part to another, and looks like a parrot, right?, my father call them "cotorras" in Spanish and I have some of differents sizes, ones really large, maybe like that of Cuda.
.Do you mean they make small cotorras, I gotta get me some of those. Sometime I need a smaller hammer too.
Mountain Pass
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From: Central Ky.
Originally Posted by Snowbunny
If you go to a parts store for the big boys, like Freightliner, they have a filter wrench that is a piece of cloth strap on a 5/8" drive post. It's big enough to take off a semi's filter, yet because it's cloth, it can wrap around the post
Lanny
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From: MICHIGAN
Ok, Here's the cheapest oil filter wrench in the shop. Get a piece of sand paper and wrap it around the filter, gritty side towards the filter, both hands will get it off. Never fails. Unless you're a little weak (hangover) ect.
