Edit: I snapped this after I found it. That’s how I knew it was on so tight. It still took me a good few minutes to find it because I kept looking under the car. I wasn’t expecting the filter to be on top.
Edit: I snapped this after I found it. That’s how I knew it was on so tight. It still took me a good few minutes to find it because I kept looking under the car. I wasn’t expecting the filter to be on top.
Lmao yeah I just grabbed some oil filter pliers from the parts store. That did the trick. So many interference items just for an oil filter. I got maybe two degrees of rotation with each squeeze.
Oof, gotta hate the engineers that design shit like that! Engineers must hate mechanics, so the feeling is mutual…
I feel you, but the reality is probably more like “Project Manager said I need to save 13 more cents on materials or he’ll murder my children, so if I move the oil filter from this nice easy to access location and remove the lip that catches any drippage it’ll get us there.”
90% of the time it’s the bosses.
On the plus side the top mounted filter was kinda nice. I didn’t have to worry about spilling a filter’s worth of oil on the garage floor.
Not like it matters because it already leaks. But hey, we take the good with the bad.
Reading this comment made something click and now I feel dumb.
When looking at these cars with top mounted oil filters, I’ve always thought “gee, that must be annoying, every time you change the filter it’s gonna dump oil all over the place!”
The filter is empty. It dumped oil all over the inside of the engine. Where it’s 'sposed to be.
It also probably causes a huge itch with all of the guys that say you absolutely must prime your filter each and every time you change because you never want it to run dry or the engine will literally explode.
You cannot prime a top mounted filter. I mean, you can try, but you won’t get the results you want lol
This car has 257,000 miles, and I promise you this thing has never received a primed oil filter. I bet the bearings are in great shape. I bet the rings fail long before the bearings do.
When I change my filter, I stick a gloved finger inside the new oil, run it around the inside of the filter, and call it good. I haven’t blown up any motors yet.