chetzar
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- June 30, 2007
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- City, State
- B-Town, Illinois
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1993 Green Explorer XLT
Who ever designed and thought it would be a good idea to put the Oil Filter on explorers where it is, needs to be kicked in the balls and fired.
My friend and I did his oil filter and oil in like 10 mins on his 97 GMC Jimmy, however my 93 Explorer took for ####ing ever just to get the oil filter off.
1. The filter wrench wouldnt work as there is not sufficent room to get the filter in there let alone ever hope of clamping it down and turning it.
2. The screwdriver idea from haynes manual = worst idea ever (if you dont know it says to puncture the filter with a screwdriver and turn it, just rips the filter open)
3. On a Lift, jackstands, the ground or with Tom Cruise holding it above the ground using his levitation powers, the filter is a ***** to get off and resulted in a punctured filter that was bent in from being taken off with big ass plyers.
Granted i'm not a mechanic, but i'm also not a retard, this filter location blows more than Micheal Jackson around little boys.
My friend and I did his oil filter and oil in like 10 mins on his 97 GMC Jimmy, however my 93 Explorer took for ####ing ever just to get the oil filter off.
1. The filter wrench wouldnt work as there is not sufficent room to get the filter in there let alone ever hope of clamping it down and turning it.
2. The screwdriver idea from haynes manual = worst idea ever (if you dont know it says to puncture the filter with a screwdriver and turn it, just rips the filter open)
3. On a Lift, jackstands, the ground or with Tom Cruise holding it above the ground using his levitation powers, the filter is a ***** to get off and resulted in a punctured filter that was bent in from being taken off with big ass plyers.
Granted i'm not a mechanic, but i'm also not a retard, this filter location blows more than Micheal Jackson around little boys.