I had that happen to me once. I still think the mechanic that put it on
used an air tool! (Good mechanics don't use air tools - IMHO). I wound up
using a hammer and chisel along the outside edge of the filter base plate.
Worked great. However, it just might be that the previous installer
cross-threaded your oil filter onto the adapter.
Reid
'79 Spitfire (original owner)
-----Original Message-----
From: Spitfire 1500 [mailto:s1500@uswest.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 6:11 PM
To: Spitfires
Subject: Re: the oil filter saga continues
Well, I initially did that to get an initial "opening" to the oil filter. I
was given advice by my dear old mother to drill holes in key points of the
filter "disk"(not sure of the name), and then wedge something in there to
crank it out. I even attacked the plate with the carbide cutter, but that is
some THICK metal on there. It's a MANN filter btw, and that will be the last
filter from them. I had a choice between beck arnley and Fram, I am goin
with beck arnley. Hopefully the guy at Checker got the right part #, since
it'll be ready tomorrow.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@gte.net>
> Sure fire way to remove a stuck filter from a Spitfire is to get a big
screwdriver and drive it all the way through the filter. Then
> you will have two things.
>
> 1. A big mess of oil to clean up and..
>
> 2. Something to grab hold of to give some leverage.
>
> It will then come right off.
>
> If that fails, try dynamite!
>
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