Fuel / oil filter removal tool

[KompetentKrew]

Which of these does the forum recommend, please?

I have to admit I'm feeling a little intimidated by this seemingly simple job, because I can't understand why my fuel filter has suddenly started weeping and my engine won't start.

 

[Easticks28]

Lash out the extra 3 Euros. A much more versatile tool IMHO.

 

[lynallbel]

None of them, you want the three pronged type, and not the cheap ones either as they bend/break.

 

[Beneteau381]

Which of these does the forum recommend, please?

I have to admit I'm feeling a little intimidated by this seemingly simple job, because I can't understand why my fuel filter has suddenly started weeping and my engine won't start.

Ive got one of the strap ones, works fine as long as the strap is steel! It gives you a bit more clearance if the filter is tight agains the block or whatever

 

[Poignard]

This is what I use

Boa Constrictor Strap Wrench

I tighten the filter by hand and, if necessary, loosen it with this.

 

[dulls]

Which of these does the forum recommend, please?

I have to admit I'm feeling a little intimidated by this seemingly simple job, because I can't understand why my fuel filter has suddenly started weeping and my engine won't start.

Is one easier to use in what ever space you have?

 

[differentroads]

Which of these does the forum recommend, please?

I have to admit I'm feeling a little intimidated by this seemingly simple job, because I can't understand why my fuel filter has suddenly started weeping and my engine won't start.

I used to have one of the thin metal strap jobbies on the right. Couldn't get it to grip on even a moderately tight filter. I currently use a chunky leather strap wrench from a Chino shop in Spain. Fine so far.
Had a very cheap rubber strap wrench but too much stretch and poor grip onto itself. The Boa version looks a little more convincing.
Havent tried the chain type.

 

[VicS]

I have a bay boa constrictor ......... good for jam jar lids etc but a bit too stretchy for anything much else

I have a very badly designed chain type Very poor but used it for years.

Also more recently purchased a screw up type, like the Autobest, Lidl or Aldi special offer. I forget which. Not used it yet .. probably never will ... given up changing oil and filters

Often though about making a strap wrench using an old cam belt.

 

[Praxinoscope]

This is the best Oil Filter removal tool I have found so far, it has the advantage over strap or chain devices in that it can be use in more cofined spaces where both the other tools need more space to rotate them, it also grips the filter as you turn the wrench.

 

[neilf39]

Had to use a screwdriver punched through the secondary fuel filter and the screwdriver bent in turning it as it was on so tight. The strap wrench I had just broke. I could not use a chain strap as there was not enough clearance. It was a new engine and the first change so the filter had been painted on as well.

 

[Skylark]

This is what I use

Boa Constrictor Strap Wrench

I tighten the filter by hand and, if necessary, loosen it with this.

I bought a chain wrench in about 1972 and still use it irregularly ? I keep it in its original cardboard and plastic packaging, how sad is that ?

One day, I saw that my local Pound Shop had an orange version of the linked boa constrictor wrench and I have to say it’s remarkably good.

As you say, hand tighten should be enough to form a seal.

 

[Skylark]

This is the best Oil Filter removal tool I have found so far, it has the advantage over strap or chain devices in that it can be use in more cofined spaces where both the other tools need more space to rotate them, it also grips the filter as you turn the wrench.

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That’s very posh. I’d love to have a look around your toolboxes ?

 

[Praxinoscope]

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That’s very posh. I’d love to have a look around your toolboxes ?

It's a case of 50 years of doing ones own car/boat etc. maintenance and searching out a tool that will do the job, but I still find I come up against a job where I either have to 'bodge-up ' a tool or have to go on the scrounge as I don't have something that will work.

About 8 squid on eBay, the posher RS Components one is about £16.

 

[tudorsailor]

This is what I use

Boa Constrictor Strap Wrench

I tighten the filter by hand and, if necessary, loosen it with this.

I have a small and large of these. Very useful for other things such as the filter housing of the watermaker that always tightens so that I can not undo it by hand even tho' I tighten only by hand
TS

 

[dulls]

I have a small and large of these. Very useful for other things such as the filter housing of the watermaker that always tightens so that I can not undo it by hand even tho' I tighten only by hand
TS

Yes but you were younger and a lot stronger last time you changed the filter.

 

[Praxinoscope]

It's Sods Law of everything, YOU only tighten the oil filter by hand when you put it on, but when you come to change it, it's if Godzilla had tightened the b****y thing!

 

[rogerthebodger]

Get an old leather belt . Punch holes ner the buckle so it can be tightened around the filter. Get a big screw driver and push it through between the blt and filter the twist like a spanish windlass and turn to break the stickson

 

[rogerthebodger]

It's Sods Law of everything, YOU only tighten the oil filter by hand when you put it on, but when you come to change it, it's if Godzilla had tightened the b****y thing!

Have you not heard of Murphy's law.

 

[DownWest]

I have been using the chain one for many years. But we have one car were where it can't fit, so made an end push on one that can be turned with a socket. it engages in the flutes pressed in the filter.

 

[Graham376]

You lot like spending money, just bash a screwdriver through it with a hammer and that will give enough leverage