need some help gentlemen!

[lawn_king]

That was a TOUGH job. I finally got the filter to spin, however, the slotted collar of the filter that abuts to the block remained frozen! I had to cut the filter in half with a sawzall, i was then able to get a birtha pipe wrench on the collar and unscrew the remaining half of the filter! Not fun! As always thankx for your insight gentlemen!

 

[KubotainNH]

I have one of these from HF, it works great.
2" to 4-1/4" Oil Filter Wrench

 

[TripleR]

Glad to hear you got it done, the first ones are always a bear. My son had a heck of a time on the ones on our M8540, the one on our L5740 was bad too but not as bad.

 

[creekbend]

Before I finish my post, I want you to realize that I don't know anything about a HST. My tractor has a gear shift and clutch. It is only my intention to help. Could the filter that you previously changed in the past, been cross-threaded in some way? Did you put the former filter on by only hand tightening? Just a thought?

 

[Grandad4]

I think they must have Godzilla's 3rd son working on the assembly line tightening those filters. The first time we did it, we discovered a human simply could not get enough leverage and there was no room for a breaker bar. I actually tied a tow strap to the filter wrench to spin it the first few inches (very gently) with the pickup truck to break it loose, although I don't recommend that approach to anyone else.

 

[Leejohn]

Did you try a punch at the spot a spanner wrench fits?

 

[TripleR]

Before I finish my post, I want you to realize that I don't know anything about a HST. My tractor has a gear shift and clutch. It is only my intention to help. Could the filter that you previously changed in the past, been cross-threaded in some way? Did you put the former filter on by only hand tightening? Just a thought?

Our M8540 is a geared unit with two filters side by side and they were as hard as those on our HST, I think it may have something to do with the way they are put on and then painted or maybe they are just screwed in too tight. On one our filters it says to use your hand and the other to use a wrench and tighten further, I forget which one.

 

[PHILIP8N]

The base of the filter should have 4 slots positioned 90 degrees apart. Put a slotted screwdriver in the most convienent slot and hit with hammer. Philip.

 

[PILOON]

My trick is to use a length of old seat belt and vice grips. I lever using the fat side of the grips so as to have a cam action so the more I force the tighter the belt gets and it never fails.
I need to resort to this method due to the minimum space I have available. ( I have a collection of probably 4-5 special filter tools but only the belt works)
I did once (and only once due to mess) resort to the 'punch with screwdriver trick'. Such a mess that I threw out the shirt and jacket.

 

[94BULLITT]

I used a filter wrench like the channel lock TripleR posted to get mine of. These filters have a pretty thick canister.