Just spent an age trying to get the filter off my 748; I bought one or those cup style filter tools but it just slipped and seems to have rounded the flutes off the filter a bit So I'm going to get one of those filter removal bands, question is are they actually any good as I've already buggered the filter a little and need to make sure whatever I use must be able to get it off. I'm replacing with a K & N filter with a nut which should make it easier next time.
Yeah did that and many recommend the strap on (ha ha) but wondered if anyone has been in my situation where the filter is a little "rounded"
I have a belt type same as this: Car auto Oil Filter Removal Tool Strap Wrench Diameter Adjustable 60mm To 120mm | eBay Worked a treat on 996 but didn't on 999 so had to revert to the needle nose pliars technique, but that was the fault of the cheap oil filter that had been fitted, not the tool.
The strap has always worked for me, make sure you oil the rubber seal when you put the new one on. Steve
When the filter is totally screwed and even the screwdriver hammered through is not working, remove as much of the outer casing as you can with pliers and you will be left with the base that screws into the bottom of the engine. This has 6 or 8 holes in it, you can wedge needle nose pliers in opposite holes and put ring spanner on one handle then rotate against the other handle and of she pops, eventually. Last resort time.....
don't worry, it probably won't. But the technique works and while you will lose the skin on a knuckle or 3 its not as bad as it looks.
Plumbers pipe wrench has worked a treat on the bloody too tight from Ducati/dealer filters I've had to undo.
Found some very small flakes in the oil though Prob found this many pieces again when I pulled the small filter out, weird though as Ducati in stneots said at top end service less than a month ago that rockers were ok
Can't quite see properly on my phone but an odd missed gear now and again could produce a few flakes of mental in the small filter. Steve
Yeah I did multi task striped the headlights and clocks out (another post on this to follow) to de fog the lights and change the temp guage back up the cracked but at lest working one
That was meant to read..change the temp guage back to the cracked old one (that at least does work) be warned I got one from flea bay and it was 'repaired' and basically didn't work; gona post a topic on this to help others
Mine did exactly that. I worked through several varieties of strap, cup, clamp, grips etc., until the result was a torn-off mess. Got it out with the round-nose pliers which moved it millimetre by millimetre until it came free. Last resort was so true.
