14h ago

If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks.

Edit: I snapped this after I found it. That's how I knew it was on so tight. It still took me a good few minutes to find it because I kept looking under the car. I wasn't expecting the filter to be on top.

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Center bottom, the blue thing. I'd use this:

But yeah, it's not quite easy.
- I'm not a mechanic, so please bear with me
  What the living hell is that thing of a tool? Oo
  
  I'm no mechanic either, but it looks like you can tighten the chain around a stuck cap and then use the red handle as a lever to apply a large amount of force, "unsticking" the stuck cap
  
  Thanks!
  Yeah, I still can't really visualise how this is working
  I get that you use the chain and the handle as a lever, but I just can't wrap my mind around how this can work, without the chain just slipping around the stuff I want to unscrew.
  How do I get the chain like stiff, when I get it in place?
  Really sorry if I'm kinda slow here ...
  
  No worries! I don't think the chain needs to be stiff, just tight. From what I can tell, these are called a chain wrench, and I found a demo video.
  Hope that helps!
  
  Ah, ok, thank you very much
  I somehow imagined the chain hanging sloppy down and around the filter, and somehow the lever above still brings some force down there
  That mechanism now is very obvious.
  Thanks!

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