This was tonight's adventure...



By far the most stuck spin on filter I have ever encountered. Ended up crushing it in the vise and twisting it off the mount in pieces. Apparently the last guy who did this job thought so too; the other side was much newer, and a different brand filter.

Your supposed to put a thin layer of oil on the ring not lock tight! lol

I should have clarified... I was NOT the one who did this job last, this is my first service since I've owned the boat.

Trust me, oil went on with the new ones!

yes, and my truck punishes me also.

It tried that once but I fought back...Glad you got it off.

"Ever feel like your boat is punishing you for trying to maintain it?"

Every time! There's a thread on some boaters switching to OBs because they are sick of getting their asses kick working in the bilge. I always tweak my lower back and bust a knee cap just about every time I'm down there. Damn boat has NO RESPECT! hmmmm, I think I just came up with name for my boat!

Next boat outboards for sure, I'm done climbing around a bilge.

DAYUM

RT, I feel your pain. This summer I found what turned out to be an oil pan bolt in the bilge.

Several hours of standing on my head trying to finger each bolt to see which was missing--later; it was the one closest to the transom assembly. Effn-duh! I should have just started there. Fortunately I was able to crawl up in the gunwale and get to it with the ratchet/extension without a whole lot of trouble.

Speaking of filters, that's the one thing I hate about the Napa Wix filters; they have stickers on them and not silkscreen ink. I need to just pull the stickers off before I install them next time. The stickers always spin in the filter wrench.

Yep. That looks familiar. Oil on the ring and all, sometimes they just don't want to cooperate.