I always feel this will happen to me someday ,it seems so simple and easy to do then you f up.Were all human ,sheik happens .Youll figure it out.

I know, you're talking to the guy that needed 2 hours to take out an antenna, chipped his paint removing a battery cable, scratched his car with sandpaper stuck to a wash mit while washing his car, drained his tank and cleaned it before changing secondary fuel filter, and many others I can recall if I really sit and think about it.

Forum idiot is an understatement.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

This is Trigger, by the way. The car hasn't given me a lick of trouble before this.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Yeah I do have reading comprehension problems sometimes . I interpreted his first post where he said: "Stupid me forgot to replace the o-ring" as "the old o-ring was removed but he forgot to replace it with the new one" and that's why it leaked, so I was surprised to hear him say later the old o-ring is still in there.

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85 300D turbo pristine w 157k when purchased 167,870 July 2025
83 300 D turbo 297K runs great. SOLD!
83 240D 4 spd manual- parted out then junked

Doesn't the oil filter housing lid being stuck mean the rod bearings are about to fail??

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

well, its a parts car now..

^^your right Joe


Tyler, send the wagon to me and i'll properly dispose of it

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1985 300TD Turbo Euro-wagon
1979 280CE 225,200 miles
1985 300D Turbo 264,000 miles
1976 240D 190,000 miles
1979 300TD 220,000

GONE but not forgotten
1976 300D 195,300 miles
1983 300D Turbo 175,000 miles

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Tyler,

If it was me, at this point, I would take the whole housing off. Grab a new one from a yard or off a member here. Just bite the bullet and think of it as an opportunity to put in the updated oil filter housing waffle gasket.

By the time you chisel and hack at the thing you'll have warped the cover and Id be nervous about metal chips somehow being ingested into your perfectly running motor.

Cut your time losses, done spend any more time extracting and by then you'll have the housing off. Only tough part is the 27mm wrench for the oil cooler lines.

By the way, I feel your pain. It will be over soon.

dd

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'85 300D, 'Lance',250k, ... winter beater (100k on franken-Frybrid 3 Valve Kit)
'82 300D, 'Tex', 228k body / 170k engine ... summer car
'83 300TD Cali Wagon 210k, wife's car

Tyler,
Screw both nuts onto a stud with the flat sides facing each other. Tighten the two nuts against each other, use the lower one to unscrew the stud. You may have to work them in and out a little at a time if there is any corrosion on the threads or studs.
Likely the shaft is bottomed out in the filter housing preventing you from pulling it out. The shaft and/or housing may be damaged so a close inspection is a good idea. If it is, turning the lid may not help either.
Good luck!

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Darrell

1984 300SD "Ole Girl"
207K

Time to invest in a metric torque wrench........a checklist..........and a sledge hammer.

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'06 E320 CDI
'17 Corvette Stingray Vert

No no no, this is Trigger, not the Defiant!

I really can't figure out what would cause it to do that, poor car!

Just keep pounding on it, it'll free up eventually!

I was wondering about that ... I would have thought even an old o-ring wouldn't be that catastrophic. The physics of this problem are kind of hard to visualize (for me) in general, so I'll be interested to see what you find out, Tyler. Hopefully something not too bad in the end!

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1987 300D, arctic white/palomino--314,000 miles
1978 240D 4-speed, Euro Delivery, light ivory/bamboo--370,000 miles
2005 Jeep Liberty CRD Limited, light khaki/slate--140,000 miles
2018 Chevy Cruze diesel, 6-speed manual, satin steel metallic/kalahari--19,000 miles
1982 Peugeot 505 diesel, 4-speed manual, blue/blue, 130,000 miles
1995 S320, black/parchment--34,000 miles (Dad's car)

Makes me think of the time I tightened the oil filter housing cap, not seeing that the positive battery cable somehow had gotten pinched between the cap and housing. I only noticed it after a bunch of electrical smoke started to pour out from underneath the car.

I think we have all been there.

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2005 SL65
1999 E300
1995 E300
1994 SL320
1988 560SL
1987 300TD
1982 300D
1955 300SL

Good idea, but the nuts are too large for both to be threaded on there. Perhaps if I purchased two smaller ones it would fit, but then I might as well just purchase new studs.

The frustration level is not subsiding at all, and pulling up to my disaster of a driveway caused physical discomfort. Not even the smell of Ol' Turbo's interior with XM channel 73 could calm my nerves. I don't use the letters often, but WTF? I seem to do well with complicated tasks, but it seems the simplest are the ones that turn into nightmares. Now I'm one of the idiots that screwed up his own oil change, without doing any permanent damage at least.

At this point, I'd rather have AAA tow it and pay the indy, but we'll see how I am in the morning. I'll probably spend the majority of the weekend trying to figure out how to clean up the mess I made, which is bigger than both my oil cooler incidences, and my diesel mess put together. My weekend is destroyed, and I'm probably out hundreds of dollars because of this.

My dad and his friends were joking that a Baldwin brother, Susan Sarandon, and a group of GreenPeace workers will be responding to the Ecological disaster I've created in the morning.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

get cat litter on it and grind into it.. then follow through with some driveway degreaser before it really soaks in