New tools to remove stuborn oil filters

Yes, you can stab a stubborn oil filter with a screwdriver and lever it round, but that’s messy and still not foolproof, especially in hard-toreach locations.

Ryco reckons nothing beats having the right tools for the job on hand for a smooth, stress-free oil filter change.

Most modern vehicles utilise a spin-on or cartridge-type oil filter and, like most of them, Ryco are designed with flutes around the top of the filter housing, designed to provide a good grip. Ryco SpinOn and Cartridge Filter Removal Cups, made from high-quality cast aluminium, are shaped to match the filter’s flutes, acting as a socket for the oil filter.

Some Ryco filters, such as the Z9, Z89A, Z516, Z416, also have unique flutes that other generic tools struggle to remove, making Ryco’s cups a musthave for the job. Ryco Spin-On and Cartridge Filter Removal Cups feature both a ½-inch drive fitting for a socket wrench, and a hex fitting for use with a spanner, giving options for added leverage.

The RST200 Filter Removal Kit features eight ½-inch drive removal cups designed specifically to suit all Ryco unique fluted spin-on filters and spin-on can sizes, from 65mm to 101mm diameter. It also includes a 3/8-inch drive adjustable removal tool, and a hex wrench, all of which come housed in a durable purpose-molded carry case. With the RST200 Filter Removal kit, workshops will always have the right oil filter removal tool at hand, ensuring faster and cleaner filter changes. Individual cups in a broad range of sizes and patterns are also sold separately.

To match a vehicle’s oil filter to a removal cup, visit the Ryco website and enter the oil filter part number into the Cup Search function.

For more information on Ryco products see ryco.co.nz.

When you choose Ryco, you’re not just buying a part. You’re buying round-the-clock technical support, market-leading innovation and unparalleled filtration expertise.

CoolData is now available for CoolDrive’s customers to purchase as a subscription service, in conjunction with technical information experts HaynesPro.

Featured within CoolData are detailed technical drawings, a unique electronics data module, and intelligent diagnostics tools to enable workshops to diagnose, repair, and maintain vehicles quickly and accurately.

Many different areas are covered, including ‘identification data’ with various search options such as engine code, European Type Approval, and VIN.

It also provides information on VIN and identification plate locations, VIN decoder, and equipment codes.

Within CoolData, ‘adjustment data’ is available for each vehicle model, which includes ancillary drive belt, wheel alignment, emission data, tyre sizes and pressures, torque setting, air-conditioning service connectors, and various other capacities.

For ‘vehicle maintenance’, the system includes printable worksheets, smart links to relevant data sources, links to generic parts, sets of follow-up and additional tasks, service indicator reset instructions, and service period times. It also includes procedures for electronic and hybrid vehicles, tyre pressure monitoring systems, and an overview of allimportant wear intervals for parts.

The ‘repair’ offering includes removal and installation guides for timing belts and chains, ancillary drive belts, clutches, manual transmissions, turbochargers, engine assembly, plus cooling system and automatic transmission draining and refilling.

It also includes battery procedures, known fixes and tips grouped as ‘SmartCASE’, technical service bulletins in the ‘SmartFIX’ section, and manufacturer recalls.

It includes helpful advice for quoting jobs, such as specific and generic repair times.

‘Electronics’ and ‘engine management’ topics are also covered, featuring EOBD connectors, control units, grounding points, fuses and relays, HVAC, wiring diagrams, faults, and VESA guided diagnostics.

The CoolData offering is available in packages for cars and/or trucks. Each subscription offers four unique user logins, which also give access to Haynes Manuals AllAccess, delivering more than 700 online manuals for car and motorcycle maintenance and repair.

The featured content is all up-to-date professional information, featuring common repairs, routine maintenance and servicing procedures, all with the ability to be printed in the workshop.

Included is information on removal and replacement procedures, which is not covered in other professional data programs, including dash and trim, starters, engines, gearbox, and more.

Complete with around 750 enlargeable colour photographs in each manual, the series includes information on service intervals, quick links to popular procedures, videos of typical jobs, hyperlinks to additional information, colour wiring diagrams, easy search functionality, plus detailed troubleshooting guides.

For more information, see cooldrive.co.nz.

CoolData powered by HaynesPro enables the professional workshop to diagnose, maintain and repair vehicles and trucks with detailed Technical Drawings, a unique Electronics data module including wiring diagrams and guided tests and intelligent Diagnostics called VESA.