Oil filter wrench and drain
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whateg01
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Not sure, but this looks kind of cool....if it actually fits your filter and you have room to use it.
Glad to see they use the infomercial style with before-and-after videos, where the "before" guy spins off the filter like a madman, getting his hand soaked in used motor oil. 
I just don't like the fact it leaves you with another tool to clean. I usually just hammer in a nail and pull it out if I want to puncture a hole in the filter.
I just don't like the fact it leaves you with another tool to clean. I usually just hammer in a nail and pull it out if I want to puncture a hole in the filter.
kbuhagiar
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^^^This.
^^^And this!
I'm pretty persnickity about cleanliness, but I agree wholeheartedly with these two statements.
jsaw
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I take a punch and poke a hole on the lowest part of the filter. Too many filters I change, there is not enough room to even fit that tool on.
ChevyEFI
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All I want is for engines to have the filter and plug located so they can drain in the same drain pan instead of having one here and another there.
CraigStu
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And how about if the filter doesn't drain on a hollow subframe piece that runs some of the oil 18" away from the filter? Or onto the plastic panel because they made the little fold down filter access piece too small?
skeer
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But isn't this just added frame corrosion protection?
bwringer
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I just have to say that "Oil Udder" is the best product name I've seen in a while, and I want to buy it for that reason alone.
bwringer
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Looks like an actual, y'know, product is not yet in production. But you can get hats! The photo in the store seems to show a plastic 3D printed cup instead of the milled metal in the video.
Overall, there's the germ of a great idea here. However, 99.99% of vehicles with a horizontal oil filter, and a large percentage of vehicles with a vertical oil filter don't have room to swing a hammer.
And with a horizontal filter, punching the hole in the center still leaves it half full. A version with the punch on one edge might be better for horizontal filters.
And you'd need different versions for every filter, because they've combined the punch function with the wrench function.
Still, for home use it could be pretty well worth it for a vehicle you plan to keep a while and maintain yourself.
firebirdparts
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That doesn't make any sense. It would only work on bottom-mounted vertical filters. Cheap screwdriver is a better option. Grind the tip into a dagger. Fits all.
Shadowdog500
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Use a small center punch. I’ve been doing it that way for decades.
bassJAM
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I'm with bwringer. There's no room in my F150 to fit this and swing a hammer. The filter is also horizontal so like he pointed out only half would drain, yet to get it out of it's tight space I need to rotate it to vertical so I'd still get messy, probably more so with a hole in the bottom!
My Odyssey has easy access to the filter, but I just place a ziplock bag over it when spinning it off to contain the mess.
My Odyssey has easy access to the filter, but I just place a ziplock bag over it when spinning it off to contain the mess.
Old Man Roger
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Paper plate funnel.
bwringer
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These methods often make a mess and defeat the purpose. The whole idea of the Last Drop wrench is that the oil is contained. I guess if you're deft with the drain pan and the punching tool you can minimize the mess, but there's still a certain degree of unpredictability with where the oil is going to go once you pull your punch out.
Mike65
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Would not work on my 05 F150 Either.
four.cycle
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Interesting idea, but it requires no fewer than TEN different models?
Great idea for some vehicles, I suppose. Would not work on a V6 Ford Ranger, however - no room for that gizmo down in there, let alone any place to swing a hammer.
Last / Last Drop Wrench LLC, 1429 W. Floyd Baker Blvd, #230, Gaffney, SC 29341 / https://www.lastdropwrench.com/ / est. 2018 / oil filter wrench / patent 11311992 Apr 26 2022 & 12115632 Oct 15 2024 Christopher Steven Owens /
Great idea for some vehicles, I suppose. Would not work on a V6 Ford Ranger, however - no room for that gizmo down in there, let alone any place to swing a hammer.
Last / Last Drop Wrench LLC, 1429 W. Floyd Baker Blvd, #230, Gaffney, SC 29341 / https://www.lastdropwrench.com/ / est. 2018 / oil filter wrench / patent 11311992 Apr 26 2022 & 12115632 Oct 15 2024 Christopher Steven Owens /
Leaflessshadetree
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I've never tried punching a hole in the filter. What is the benefit?
On some vehicles I'll loosen it and let it drain before spinning is all the way off. Usually I just remove the filter and set it in the pan, then transfer it to a drip tray. Seems like I can leave them there for a week and oil still drips out.
On some vehicles I'll loosen it and let it drain before spinning is all the way off. Usually I just remove the filter and set it in the pan, then transfer it to a drip tray. Seems like I can leave them there for a week and oil still drips out.
esben57
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VW polo 3 cylinder filter cartridge case sits high enough up at an angle. Let it drain for some time then undo it.
Oil everywhere down the engine no matter how many rags you use.
Oil everywhere down the engine no matter how many rags you use.
DGersic
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Depends on the vehicle, but the claimed benefit is draining the oil out of the filter, at least most of it, before removing the filter and splashing oil all over the place. Some are worse than others, depending on how much oil remains above the filter, and how the filter is oriented on the engine.
I love the idea. But the drawbacks of having to actually get this thing in place, and room to swing a hammer, isn’t happening on the ones I’d most want to use it on.
My Chevy (SBC) has a vertical filter with plenty of room to use this thing. But where the filter is, and it’s orientation, I don’t need the thing, I can just unscrew the filter, and any little splash drops in to the drain pan.
My Dakota has a horizontal filter, positioned so that the only way to get a wrench on it is from the wheel well, and it’s close enough to the exhaust manifold that just getting a strap type wrench in there is a challenge. But the filter drops out to the bottom of the vehicle, generally splashing a filter’s worth of oil on the engine and suspension. This is where some kind of filter drain would be excellent, but there‘s no access point that would allow one to be used.
I store and eventually recycle the filters. There is still drippable oil in them many months after they were removed.
Buckaroo5
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You can drain the newer style Toyota cannister oil filters by removing a small plug in the bottom and inserting a throw-away tube. Then you have to replace the o-ring on the plug and put it back in. Just more steps in my mind....I did it the first time but now I just take the filter down and catch the oil in the drip pan like I always have. I am pretty careful to minimize spillage and splatter during oil changes but hard to do with that cannister filter design.
Shadowdog500
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I do it in applications where slightly loosening a filter to drain would still make a mess. Inboard boats come to mind. They actually make a filter punch that has a hose to **** the oil out using an oil extractor. I’ve also seen one that punches a hole and uses compressed air to blow all of the filter oil into the oil galleys.
A ziplock bag slid around the filter before removing it also works in some instances.
I don’t need a punch on my current fleet but I do have a couple things that help redirect oil..
I made this oil filter punch years ago using a nail set: Fluids flow perpendicular to the surface it is coming out of when passing through a small hole so it is easy to aim the oil to the drain pan.
This paint roller pan was converted to a funnel to direct the oil coming out of the filter a drain plug on my motorhome. The Ladder hook portion of the drain pan hooks over the front sway bar.
This flexible funnel comes in handy but heavy duty aluminum foil works too. I currently use it to keep the last bit of the oil from the filter on my grand Cherokee from gettin in the splash shield.. The engine has a built in funnel to direct the oil out of the service hole in the splash shield but when the flow slows down the oil don’t quite make it to the service hole.
This milk jug piece helps direct the flow from the filter on my Onan generator.
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Overpriced and over complicated. That's one of those "tools" that is really just a neat look-at-me gadget for the guy who has to have gadgets. Everyone has a cheap phillips screwdriver and a hammer....works just as well, if not better.
I use a center punch.
I use a center punch.
Ford got it close. If the drain bolt was vertical instead of horizontal, it would be a home run!
