> Any suggestions on how to get it off now will be greatly >appreciated. I am going to wait an hour or so before I attack the project >again, in hopes that the freezing rain will stop and the sun will come out. >I am thinking that perhaps the band wrench will hold, if I wrap the filter >in a clean rag before putting the wrench on it ... Woody - I have never attempted to change my own oil in the Vanagon, either. However, I used to change it on my old (non-VW) van, and one time, for some reason, I could not for the life of me get the filter off with the band wrench. Now, this might be a bad thing to do. I don't know if there is a risk of damaging something if you do this, but I was determined to get that sucker off, and this was the only thing I could think of: I took a screwdriver and jammed it into the side of the filter, and used the screwdriver to turn the filter just enough that I could get it off the rest of the way by hand. Yes, it was messy, but...it worked. -Lauren |
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