Snowflake Oil Filter Wrenches

Dibber · Post by **Dibber** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:53 pm

I saw these tools in Modern Vespa. The Snowflake Oil Filter Wrench either slotted or hex and priced nicely. See them in www.oopsclunkthud.com or check out Modern Vespa site titled Snowflake Oil Filter Wrench. I would have copied it to this message, but don't know how. Sorry!

ScooterTrash · Post by **ScooterTrash** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:30 pm

Thats pretty cool, I dont think I would buy it but I wold use it for free

sunshinen · Post by **sunshinen** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:35 pm

spectacular find! especially since i no longer have the metal file i had been using as a wrench.

pocphil · Post by **pocphil** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:56 pm

Neat idea and great design, but you simply can NOT put enough torque on a Buddy oil filter using only your hand. Every time we've seen a buddy filter come off a motor it was because the customer tightened it "by hand then gave it an extra 1/4 turn with a wrench". We use a wrench and we put them on TIGHT (16 ft lbs.). I know we couldn't replicate that torque by hand, even with that nifty snowflake device.

Dibber · Post by **Dibber** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:18 pm

Pocphil, what tool do you use to torque the slotted oil filters with? Now that I own 2 of the slotted filters.