3D printable oil filter socket tool (FL-500S)

dad_w_truck · Sep 23, 2023

FL-500S oil filter socket - spent some time designing this today... cheers!

Edit - designed a 14 rib version as well. I had two FL-500S filters needing two different sockets so I designed the 2nd one as well. Download at the link above.

Ford F-150 3D printable oil filter socket tool (FL-500S) PXL_20230925_023539902

Ford F-150 3D printable oil filter socket tool (FL-500S) PXL_20230924_193737959

Ford F-150 3D printable oil filter socket tool (FL-500S) PXL_20230924_020304827

There is also this guy to quiet up that backup beeper...

Big Dog Daddy · Sep 23, 2023

Well done! Nice

dad_w_truck · Sep 24, 2023

Designed and added the 14 rib version as well above.

antho · Sep 24, 2023

Somehow I never even thought of this and I do the expedition and f150 myself. Gonna print this up. Thanks!

astrand1 · Sep 25, 2023

Napa also sells an adapter that fits this filter. My buddy got one. He just took in a filter and found one that fits perfectly. I need to do that as well. I like this idea as well. But I don’t have a 3D printer. For some reason just never got into the whole thing.

Fordphanatic · Sep 25, 2023

Nice job! Now I need a 3D printer! I have been looking for a reason to buy one.

bcb97 · Sep 25, 2023

Why are there two rib designs? Also, I'll pay someone for these if they'll make them for me.

Jersey devil · Sep 25, 2023

bcb97 said:
Why are there two rib designs? Also, I'll pay someone for these if they'll make them for me.

Same here, Don't have a printer but I'll pay someone if they'll make one up for me.

travisN000 · Sep 25, 2023

astrand1 said:
Napa also sells an adapter that fits this filter. My buddy got one. He just took in a filter and found one that fits perfectly. I need to do that as well. I like this idea as well. But I don’t have a 3D printer. For some reason just never got into the whole thing.

Here is a filter adapter that fits both types of filters (maybe an idea for you printers

):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09VCQKDYL

dad_w_truck · Sep 25, 2023

bcb97 said:
Why are there two rib designs? Also, I'll pay someone for these if they'll make them for me.

I bought an FL 500S filter off of Amazon and the one that showed up had a manufacturing date of June 2020 and it had the 30 ribs. Then I bought another filter to have on hand and that one has the 14 ribs. I was kind of curious if the 30 rib design was an older one. Either way, I designed one for each, so in either instance of a filter showing up with one of those designs, I'm good to go. Totally could have purchased sockets but I'm familiar with design and 3D printing so these were 50 cents each in material and a cup of coffee's time to design.... and I can put it out there for the masses to print their own.

bcb97 · Sep 25, 2023

travisN000 said:
Here is a filter adapter that fits both types of filters (maybe an idea for you printers):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09VCQKDYL

Thanks! Just ordered.

dad_w_truck · Sep 25, 2023

travisN000 said:
Here is a filter adapter that fits both types of filters (maybe an idea for you printers):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09VCQKDYL

There are printers and then there are designers. Designing this would be a bit tricky but not impossible... it looks like the pattern is quite a bit more shallow when you incorporate both filter types which might be a little much for the 3D print to hold versus metal.

dad_w_truck · Sep 25, 2023

Fordphanatic said:
Nice job! Now I need a 3D printer! I have been looking for a reason to buy one.

There's a running joke that I've seen before about 3D printers. Something along the lines of, my toilet handle broke so I need to spend $600 on a 3D printer to fix it. It is like that though. Once you get your hands dirty with design, you can design and print a lot of solutions. Pretty amazing. I've had my printer now for roughly 4 years and I've been designing a long.

tony72cutlass's' · Sep 25, 2023

you mean you guys dont do this anymore???

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dad_w_truck · Sep 25, 2023

tony72cutlass's' said:
you mean you guys dont do this anymore???

I used to do that to tighten my filter but man I went through a lot of oil.

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