Oil Filter, Was Welded On ?

[I gotta R34gtr v-spec]

It's just taken me and a mate and his Dad,& 3 different oil filter wrench's and half a day to get the oil filter off my R34Gtr.After picking it up in Sydney from the compliance workshop and driving it home [over 700km's]and as far as i know it had been sitting around for 3 months so i thought it was a good idea to change the engine oil and filter cause it looked black and thick.first of all i tried my hand, it's still in the stock position down under the plenum,no way, so i bought a $16 stanley strap type wrench from supercrap,me and a mate strained on that for a couple of hours,and dented the filter, but no way it wouldn't budge.He called his Dad who had a couple of different size strap wrench's,we finally got it with the larger caterpillar one, even then it was a battle for about ten minutes to break the seal. i don't think the compliance workshop changed the filter.Do they weld them on in Japan or what.

[Simon-S14]

Would have been over tight with dry seal and not changed in a while. They get real right then

[34GeeTeeTee]

I've only had a few oil filters like that, I have the mother or all multi grips (snap on/blue point) and basically grap the filter, crush it and break the seal it has.... Make sure you don't grab it at the base and fk the threads in the block... But no matter how hard they did it up, it will come off

[PN-Mad]

Easier to get off cold than hot (which sucks because you need to warm the oil to change...)

second thing - hammer a old screwdriver though the really difficult ones and use that as leverage to turn it. Not pretty or clean, but it works.

[34GeeTeeTee]

Easier to get off cold than hot (which sucks because you need to warm the oil to change...)

second thing - hammer a old screwdriver though the really difficult ones and use that as leverage to turn it. Not pretty or clean, but it works.

Depends how tight... Mate tried this and tore the case to shit... 1 min with the multi grips of death and boom... Done

[I gotta R34gtr v-spec]

Yeah i thought of the screw driver but there's no room to work, my Gtr came with one of many surprizes and one of them was the nismo oil cooler in the front left hand guard so there's oil lines every where.

[Simon-S14]

get a relo kit

[jjman]

Depends how tight... Mate tried this and tore the case to shit... 1 min with the multi grips of death and boom... Done

been there before. Thankfully was on a motorcycle so just had to trailer it to the dealer. They all laughed so hard when i pulled it down the ramp, fairings off, showing the world an oil filter that like like a tazzie tiger had taken to it for an hour with not much more than the base left intact...

[Manuel Kasko]

I clicked on this thinking holy shit how does someone weld it in there.

But yeah as everyone said its just the fact someone did it up real tight.

I did this the first time because I didnt understand you just had to do it hand tight