wow sounds like a nightmare work day. Hopefully things will get better

 

Another option to get the flter off is just to take a screwdriver, and hammer it trough the filter and then tturn the hammer. it'll make a mess, but it will get it off.

 

Someone needs to get a cap type filter wrench.

It slips onto the end of the filter and has a hole for a 3/8" drive extension.

 

hmmm that cap sounds good. But yea that freaking filter took almost 30 mins to get off, lesson learned!

 

^ Just make sure you get a metal one.

The graphite one sucks. Don't ask how I know.

 

lol how do you know

 

Zoni -

Pepboys carries the caps that fit on the end of the oil filter. If you're having trouble with bolts, (and don't know about it already), there's a product called PB Blaster that works miracles!

Better luck tomorrow, we've all had those days... I could tell you about my 12 hour Hotchkis front swaybar install on my truck (required some grinding on the A-Arm, and getting the endlink bolts to line up through the access hole on the bottom of the A-Arm was another nightmare), the 5 hour TB spacer install (4.5 hours of it trying to remove the fuel line bracket GM engineers put in the worst place) on the same truck, or my personal favorite, the catback install on my Mustang. After 10 hours of working by myself getting the old exhuast off and the Mangnaflow on, I started to hacksaw what I thought was the shield for the gastank for some clearance on the tailpipes. Well, turns out it was part of the gas tank $500 later, I have a new gastank. You've got to love the Ford engineers, it's good to see that they redesigned the gas tank so the newer ones don't have that "shield".

Hang in there, bud!

DJ

 

lol how do you know

I busted one in half taking the oil filter off my moms Rolla.

Stupid asses at the dealership must of torqued the shit out of it. :slap:

 

I got a plastic one from canadian tire....


but the first time I used it to take the filter off which was last done at the shop, it got stuck on the filter wrench and it took 10min to get off....:disappoin

 

oil filter caps are the best... fit right onto your ratchet
better than using a dish washing glove like I used to

 

that sucks,

today was the worst for me too. i was hoping and getting ready to go to a camry meet in NY next saturday. On my way to put on my rims, my check engine light turns on and my car starts rough idling. I think its my O2 senors but i need to get a diagnostics test. ($$$) and get new O2 senors $300. SO basically im screwed. i need to finish my car for the meet and today went horribly wrong.

hope everything evens out with you.

 

sry to hear lil italian, but don't spend $300 on an O2 sensor thats way too much. I think some guys have used the Bosch sensor succesfully, try a quick search mayeb you'll find something

 

my car got towed this morning, a bad day for me as well

 

I got a plastic one from canadian tire....


but the first time I used it to take the filter off which was last done at the shop, it got stuck on the filter wrench and it took 10min to get off....:disappoin

Yeah the plastic (graphite) ones suck. Which is why I recomend the metal one.

If anyone is looking for a metal one, its made by Vector. Part # on it is 17040 and it fits Toyota filters (90915-YZZA2).

 

sry to hear lil italian, but don't spend $300 on an O2 sensor thats way too much. I think some guys have used the Bosch sensor succesfully, try a quick search mayeb you'll find something

A Bosch O2 sensor should work.

Hell almost all aftermarket O2 sensors are made by Bosch anyways.

 

88Le who sells (as in what online store) the metal filter caps?

 

88Le who sells (as in what online store) the metal filter caps?

Not sure. I bought mine from a local Toyota dealership.

I've also seen them at autoparts stores, but I forget if they were metal or not.

 

A Bosch O2 sensor should work.

Hell almost all aftermarket O2 sensors are made by Bosch anyways.

they work fine

 

dont bring back an old thread like this... let it die...