Oil Bypass Filter kits

BrianT said

Don't take this the wrong way, but you must me doing something wrong. I had an adapter on my Dart with crappy headers for the last ten years and never had a problem changing the filter? Didn't even have to get under the car?!? Lean over the fender, grab the filter with a large pair of sliding pliers and twist off?

Got any pics? My adapter was mounted horizontally with the filter towards the firewall. Seems like a waste of money to me to be adding a filter relocation kit when their are literally tens of thousands of people who have those adapters on their cars and change the oil regularly with no problems.

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Mine is at a 45° angle pointed at the fender wall. I do not have headers, although maybe sometime down the road.

I was unable to loosen the filter from above, I tried a bunch of different ways. I ended up grabbing it from underneath with the largest slip-joint pliers I have (very large).
At that point I was unable to remove the filter from the bottom and the top was almost impossible.
I was not kidding about being crippled up. I had a pump implanted in my abdomen that pumps Hydromorphone/Dilaudid (the strongest opiate available today) directly into my spinal cannel. If my doctor ever saw what I have been doing, all hell would break loose.
It is getting harder and harder to do the simple jobs every day.

Sooner, rather than later, I may not be able to do what I can do today. So if I can place the filter in a convenient place, it will help down the road