I ice-bagged the oil filter!

[moribundman]

Yikes, I must be getting sloppy. I changed the oil today but couldn't find my big rubber strap wrench. Looks like I did tighten the oil filter last time a bit too enthusiastically (usually I'm careful!), or maybe I didn't enough meat for breakfast or something. After wrestling the filter for ten minutes I had to actually put a bag with ice on the filter and cool it down before I could loosen it with my bare hands.

I put 14k miles on the sauce this time. Started out with Red Line 5w30 (blew right by the valve stem seals), moved on to (topped off with) Valvoline 5W-40. No UOA will be performed. The new fill is all Syntec 5W-50.

 

[Drew99GT]

14K...............oh the humanity!

 

[moribundman]

It came out looking like brownish asphalt, opaque and water-thin (well, it was very hot).

 

[moribundman]

Oh, forgot to mention, I add LC20 regularly, because I ordered a gallon a few years ago. I think this bottle will last me a long time.

 

[Drew99GT]

It took me about 2 years to use up a gallon of LC, using it on 3 vehicles.

Sounds like the oil came out like 2 girls, 1...

 

[moribundman]

I've already had dinner. Thanks for reminding me, though.

 

[sprintman]

Which vehicle please?

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

"I changed the oil today but couldn't find my big rubber strap wrench. "
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Well, I wonder where it might be?

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: sprintman
Which vehicle please?


The A4.

Originally Posted By: Harpo Marx
"I changed the oil today but couldn't find my big rubber strap wrench. "
Well, I wonder where it might be?


I haven't found it yet. I know where it is, though -- in the last place where I'll look.

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

I thought that a dominatrix might have lost a whip and the strap wrench was substituted?

 

[moribundman]

That's a scary thought!

 

[kkreit01]

Humm -- great idea: "ice bag on oil filter". I bet it will decrease 1/4 mile times as well (don't tell the ricers).

 

[CBDFrontier06]

I did the annual service on my sister's John Deere lawn mower last week and tried something that I was sure wouldn't work..but it did work.

I hand tightened the oil filter last year but it was too tight to get off by hand this year...and I didn't have a filter wrench. Of course they put the filter in a place that you can't get your entire hand around it.

So..in a moment of brainstorming, I removed my leather belt and wrapped it tightly around the filter, grabbed both ends with a pair of pliers and started twisting counter-clockwise. Ta-da...off came the filter. Saved me a long trip into town in search of a wrench.

Ice-bagging..what does that do exactly?

 

[moribundman]

The leather belt gets only better with oil conditioning!

 

[CBDFrontier06]

I got lucky...the belt came out of it without a drop on it...so I slid it back on.

 

[Aldaris]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
Yikes, I must be getting sloppy. I changed the oil today but couldn't find my big rubber strap wrench. Looks like I did tighten the oil filter last time a bit too enthusiastically (usually I'm careful!), or maybe I didn't enough meat for breakfast or something. After wrestling the filter for ten minutes I had to actually put a bag with ice on the filter and cool it down before I could loosen it with my bare hands.

I put 14k miles on the sauce this time. Started out with Red Line 5w30 (blew right by the valve stem seals), moved on to (topped off with) Valvoline 5W-40. No UOA will be performed. The new fill is all Syntec 5W-50.
At least you didn't have to tea-bag the oil filter. That's the next step.

 

[mechtech2]

After 14,000 miles, what was the sudden hurry to cool down that filter and get it off as soon as possible?

 

[moribundman]

It was getting dark and it started raining sideways.

 

[mechtech2]

The good news is that is WAS hot.
That means it was flowing, not plugged.

 

[moribundman]

Why would it have been plugged? I wonder with what you will come up next!