Cheech
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Has anyone ever had the oil filter threaded pipe come out with the oil filter? I was changing the oil on my '95 Ford Ranger 4.0 L and I put a new filter on, fired up the truck noticed oil going every where. So I shut it down, figured the oil filter was the wrong size and took it off to find a 1" long all thread pipe sticking out of it. It screws into the engine block and then the filter screws onto it.
My question is how do I reinstall it without messing up the threads? I will have to get a new one since I trashed the threads trying to get it back out of the filter. The problem was a metal shaving in the new filter (fram) that made it seem tight when it wasn't which also screwed up the threads on the filter side.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
My question is how do I reinstall it without messing up the threads? I will have to get a new one since I trashed the threads trying to get it back out of the filter. The problem was a metal shaving in the new filter (fram) that made it seem tight when it wasn't which also screwed up the threads on the filter side.
Any thoughts or suggestions?