Home-made tool for removing car's oil filter?

Wrap a couple of elastic bands around the filter to give some grip. (your postman will no doubt leave some for you - just walk around with your eyes on the pavement).

Get an old leather belt & remove the buckle's tongue.

Make a loop in the belt by passing the end through the buckle & place over filter. A couple of extra turns on the filter might be helpful.

Pull to tighten and to apply torque in order to ,hopefully, undo filter.

If this doesn't apply enough torque on its own, assist it with your other hand wrapped around the belt.

This method has the advantage of not damaging the filter - unless the threads shear off of course.

p.s. Make sure you're turning it the right way. It's easy to get disoriented if you have to work from underneath.

Clean your wounds and apply first aid.

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If there's room and you've got a ratchet strap for your luggage, you could probably use that. Possibly with a screwdriver through the handle for more leverage.

SteveW

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Not just a French problem. I used to have a Rover 400 with the 1.6l Rover engine. First you got it warmed up nicely, then you put it on axle stands to drain the sump. Next you reached into the narrow gap between the back of the engine and the bulkhead to remove the filter ... from directly over the now red-hot exhaust pipe!

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The 200 bubble encourages you to reach down between the radiator and the exhaust so burning the forearms. It really is the easiest way, but wearing welding gauntlets.

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thirty-six

The proper end cap spanners (match diameter & flutes) have a 1/4" socket end and a box-square end for conventional open spanners. Make the job very easy.

Screwdriver through the side of some very thick wall oil filters (like piggin subframes) might be enough to tweak any oil-to-water heat exchanger on the threaded oil filter tube or tweak the tube itself to affect the seal at 70-120psi.

Remember to oil wipe the filter o-ring, ideally part fill re getting oil pressure up faster. If a horizontal oil fitment part fill will be limited but better than nothing.

You can buy oil filter remote kits, but they are another collection of joints as well as routing hoses so as not to abrade, be abrade, be cooked or cook. Some cars benefit from them though re easy firewall mounting & now vertical oil filter - just check oil level regularly.

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