[s-cars] Oil Filter Troubles

[Wayne Dohnal]

My favorite removal method is to use one of the giant channel-lock pliers to
get the filter loose.  With the filter hanging straight down, I apply the
jaws pointing straight up the side of the filter.  The plier is adjusted so
I slightly crush the filter can when squeezing the handle.  Then it's just
turn the far end of the handle to loosen the filter.  The filter doesn't
come out of it looking very pretty but it works every time, and it's pretty
easy the way the urS4 is put together.

Wayne Dohnal
1994 S4


>I went to change the oil on the A4 today and the oil filter
>was on there so tightly that it just wouldn't come off- to
>the point that the oil filter wrench crushed the filter, nearly
>broke it in two and I only managed maybe 1/4 turn with all of
>that effort