Hammer and chisel worked for me PBR. I've also used a very large socket I pounded into place over the buggered head. If your very careful, you can even salvage stuck bolts with the chisel method (just gotta file down the curls). I also have use a hack saw to cut a very large slot across the head of the bolt and use an impact hammer to losen it up!

Thanks for all the advice. I'm off to the "tent" to work on this thing and I'll report back shortly.

Wah Wah. Failure. I think that the bolt has been sabotaged. Here's what went down. I tried to chisel it to no avail. I then dremeled off the mangled bolt head but, couldn't get in closer to get the larger washer part off. With the bolt off I could get the bolt extractor way in there. I tapped it in a little and hooked up a 1/2 inch impact drill and nothing. It spun out from the extractor. So I'm feeling totally beaten. I'm going to see if I have the strength to hack away at it again tomorrow. I really feel like somebody put something crazy on it because, it's practically seamless from where the larger washer part of the bolt fits on to the filter. I guess if there's a way to completely rip out the bolt that's the point I'm at now.

Thanks for all the help. Maybe this thread helped some other people get some stuck stuff lose.

You don't have the same extractor that Ace and I have... next time try one of those as they are considerably better. Now you are as far as you are you pretty much will have to cut the whole bolt head off - this will let the filter housing off, which in turn will take some of the preasure off of the filter bolt.

Good luck, woot

I would have taken the sawzall to it by now.. haha.. just cut the whole filter housing right in half and buy a new one on ebay..

the bolt is cheaper than the housing

As was said before, if you can grind drill saw file the rest of the bolt head off you can slip off the filter housing. Then you can unscrew the bolt out of the case with a pipe wrench.

I got it out!!!!!
Hey ya'll thanks again for the help. I got it out by cutting off the larger washer part of the bolt and the filter slipped right off and the bolt came out. Now it looks like my filter cover is a little jacked up and the new bolt might not seal well to the cover. So I'm going to be looking for a new filter cover and probably posting a new topic about that.

If you are going to pay for another filter cover, why not save yourself some grief and go the spin-on filter adapter route? No more stuck covers, ever!

See the sticky topics on top of the main forum page.

That's what I'd do if I were where youre at.
Probably cost about the same and filters would be easier to come by.

Sounds cool. thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.

get a friend with a welding unit to weld a nut on your bolt then just take it off, the heat will also help taking the bolt off, that's what I did, worked great!

You could try one of these bolts
cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotor...2937QQrdZ1


Or better yet, here's the whole thing & at a really decent price!!!
cgi.ebay.com/B246-85-Y...dZViewItem

Good Luck

Thanks guys. I got a new bolt and I'll have the new cover by saturday. Then I'll be back on the road.

I've been fighting the dammed oil filter cover bolt for over two hours when I realized that I can't be the only person having this problem. I take some small measure of comfort knowing I'm not the only one who's run into this. So far I've managed to strip the bolt head using wrenches, sockets, and vice grips. My new set of Sears damaged bolt head sockets don't do much good either. They bite well enough, but the bolt stays put while they just gouge in deeper. I'm going to try a small monkey wrench next, but if that fails I'll have to break the bolt off with a chisel. Am I correct in assuming that the washer is actually part of the bolt head? I can't really tell for sure. Should I be placing the chisel between the head and the washer, or behind the washer next to the cover?