Hey everyone, truck and motor has been sitting for 35 years and pretty much everything is seized or snapping off, which is not a problem if they are bolts etc, but the oil filter is seized and not quite sure how to get some penetrating oil onto the threads.  With trying I have kind of squished the filter with pressure trying to budge.  I guess one could cut it open and see from the inside but never heard of that being done before.  Any thoughts??  JP

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Installing an oil filter without using oil or grease on the base gasket has the same effect of making it all but impossible to remove.

IF the usual oil filter 'wrenches' don't work, I've resorted to a GIGANTIC pair of water pump pliers (sometimes referred to as Channel-Lock pliers).

After that has failed, I've used a B-I-G (long shank) Phillips or straight blade screwdriver driven through the oil filter housing (penetrating through both sides and going through the center) as a lever to permit twisting the housing to break it free from the engine block adapter.

Hope this helps. 


NoShortcuts
a.k.a. Charlie Brown
near Syracuse, New York

I had the same problem with my Parklane which was also parked for 35 years. It took two oil filter wrenches at the same time to get it off, one guy working a wrench from underneath the car, another from above if I recall correctly.

MplsMike
'56 Parklane
Minneapolis, MN

If You can get something(Tool) behind the Filter where it contacts the Block and pry it away from the Block by bending the Flange it will unscrew after that. Carefully so you don't damage the flat surface where the Filter seals too. If you can get most of the Filter off it Bits and Pieces that Filter Flange should be bendable without too much trouble. That's how I got mine off first Time. 

  

Don't know if it's still available, but Hastings used to make a H.D. filter wrench that is built like a big spring. It slides over the filter & contracts as it's turned. It  has a large nut head on it that can be turned with a wrench or socket & bar.. Good luck 


Paul

Another good way that I have used, is a strap or long handled chain  wrench. plumbers use them all the time.

Bob

Ran into my share of stuck oil filters working in Ford dealers 40yrs. Some were stuck so bad all that was left was the metal base of the filter when we finally got it off. One thing that always worked was using an air hammer with a long chisel on the metal base of the filter. I'm sure any one of the methods mentioned will get it off if it's not stuck real bad. Usually when the lube rack guys called me over all that was left was a crushed, oily mess of an oil filter. A couple of zips with the air hammer always got them off.

Dan      Kingman Az.      86409

Tks everyone I will give them all a try but it will come off one way or another.....

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I've had good luck using a BIG pair of slip joint pliers (Channellocks). Grab the filter as close to it's base as possible.


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Got it off, channel lock did it.  tks everybody!

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