El Commandante

I know the problem... look around your car and you'll probably find a sticker that says: WAL-MART TIRE LUBE EXPRESS!!!

All i can say is try that cap type wrench if you are still able to put one on (they are only $5) and try getting it off with a torque wrench and extension

Dougs951

Any update on this?

Ecos

I can sympathize with you. After buying my 944s a few weeks ago the first thing I did was an oil change and it took me hours. The oil filter, drain plug and even the filler cap were overtightened. I weigh 225 and was on my back with legs braced and it was still pulling me across the floor trying to take out the drain plug. I thought for sure it was going to strip but luckily it came out ok. For the oil filter I was lucky enough to get it off with a socket cap setup...the strap style wouldn't do it. Can you believe I actually had to clamp boards to the filler cap to get 8-10" of leverage to get the darned thing off? Eeesh....I don't know what people are thinking sometimes.

vro944om

update= Car wins . idk what im going to do, i guess just cut it out and wash the oil pan out.

El Commandante

No!!!!!! haha. Is there any way you can take the assembly containing the oil filter screw off the engine block? I thought someone just recently had to replace the gasket under it... maybe i'm wrong, i don't know

asoduk

just a couple of ideas....heat or cold: with heat and a lot of caution you should be able to get it off. i saw a tool not long ago ($$$) that was essentially a heating wire that is used to wrap around stuck/rusted bolts. it heats them, you pop the nut. also an idea (i'm brainstorming): CRC freeze off.
both ideas are assuming they be thought out and acted on with patience and caution.

krystar

u can always try like liquid wrench or some other penetrating oil. what about tapping it with a rubber mallet? kinda like how we wake up bolts

vro944om

i thought about maybe freezing it... but yeah either taking off the complete ssembly or trying to knock the base around are my last options.

FRporscheman

If all else fails, I have used a LARGE screwdriver, put the tip on the filter, puncture/crush it a little bit, then swing the screwdriver so it's tangent with the filter, and use a hammer on the end of the screwdriver to knock the filter loose from that puncture spot.

GTSilver944

Maybe put two screwdrivers through it so that they form an X and are pushing off one another as you turn. Keep trying before you cut.

krystar

lol that's the first time i've heard someone use the word "tangent" in its technical form since college.

Ballistic-Chapman

Believe it's a 76mm oil filter remover. Wrapping a hose clamp around it will prevent it from losing grip.

FRporscheman

^ Nice.

I'm still in college so I can use words like tangent. Though I suppose if the screwdriver penetrates the circumference of the cylindrical filter, it's not a tangent, it's a secant!

If you think about it, even the every-day meaning of the word 'tangent' means the same thing, a path that goes away from where you are but was at one point connected.

Sorry to go off on a tangent.

vro944om

well i just threw my shoulder out trying to get it unstuck, anyone know what the inside of an empty oil filter looks like? its cool....... Jesus this car is going to kill me
i hate (temporarily) my car

krystar

you bring back horrible memories of 8th grade geometry and 1st year multi variable calculus. make it stop!