Oil filter removers - is there a system?

[Bob Kontak]

I'm talking about the round caps that you use a 3/8" ratchet or extension to remove the filter.

Is there references on the filter and the caps that would allow me to know which ones mate?

I hope this ends up being a stupid question and there is a system because I just chuck them all in a tub and dig for one that fits.

[porsche930dude]

I use the 3 jaw style it clamps down as you turn it. Pretty much always works

[astrochex]

I like your current system.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

How big is your tub/ bucket?

[KFC911]

After the one pictured in the OP, then a strap wrench, then a screw driver through the filter (messy), I use "Big AZZ" Channel locks ..... that's my systen

True story for the first time I removed the filter on my 911 btw. Ever since I just use the first one....

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by KC911

After the one pictured in the OP, then a strap wrench, then a screw driver through the filter (messy), I use "Big AZZ" Channel locks ..... that's my systen

True story for the first time I removed the filter on my 911 btw. Ever since I just use the first one....

BACls every time.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

BACls every time.

I find positioning myself directly under the filter gives the best leverage.

[zakthor]

$10 strap wrench

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

How big is your tub/ bucket?

I probably have 15 of them but I don't think that's even close to the number of sizes available.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

I probably have 15 of them but I don't think that's even close to the number of sizes available.

15?!?!?
That deserves a redneck sheet of plywood with long screws in it on the wall (or somewhere) with the filters arranged from big to small or something. You can't be fishin' through 15 filters like that!

(edit- I use a strap wrench myself, with the correct open end wrench sitting right next to it.)

[GH85Carrera]

For my El Camino I have one kinda like the one in the first post.

For the Porsche, that same adapter would work, only if I had the space by removing the air filter. So I just use a strap wrench to get it loose, and then my fingers. I just tighten it down with my hands.

Oil filters are every size possible so no standard except large Channel locks, or strap wrenches. No way to get a strap wrench on some like my El Camino. Just the end socket.

[KFC911]

Everyone needs "Big Azz" Channel locks just because that's stamped on them ... I LOL'd when I saw them .... a must have

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Here's what you want. "It's what every white boy off the lake wants"
Make a delivery system similar to a beer flight board which you can carry right under the car and start trying filter tools. Too small- reach over and grab a larger one...or vice versa etc....

When you know what car a filter works on, write it on the board.
But you don't want four boards, only one, with handles, that holds all 15 and the wrench, like a TV dinner tray.

[JackDidley]

+ 1 for Chanel Locks.

[KNS]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

I use the 3 jaw style it clamps down as you turn it. Pretty much always works

I have one of these and and it will defeat anything. Channel Locks are great but if you look at the small oil filter on the 993 access is really tight. The three claw job can get into that tight space.

[Bugsinrugs]

Originally Posted by KNS

I have one of these and and it will defeat anything. Channel Locks are great but if you look at the small oil filter on the 993 access is really tight. The three claw job can get into that tight space.

Until the rubber ends disappear. Then they no work.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

I had, well... have, one of these. It's currently stuck on the Corolla's oil filter. It's on but spinning around and I can't get it or the filter off.

I've bought a better on made of moulded aluminium, whereas the stuck one is pressed steel, but I have to get it off first.

Luckily the SC has excellent access to the oi filter and I have a remover that looks like a handle with a length of bicycle chain that wraps around it and tightens as you turn it. Works well.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

I find positioning myself directly under the filter gives the best leverage.

LOL.

I've used answer E: All of the above.

I think I have acquired about 8 or 9 different wrenches/ratchets/3-prong thingies over the years. And then, sometimes vampire-style (screwdriver through the filter) is the way to go.

[pwd72s]

2 cup thingies, 2 sizes of steel band wrenches, a pair of oil filter pliers, AND a set of big ass 18" Craftsperson chan-l-locks...all in my rollaway.
And today? To the dealerships, write a check, drive home.

[Noah930]

Anyone else like the little moulded in "nut" at the end of K&N filters because of this?