Dirtman
Former Middleweight Moss Fighting Champion
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- May 28, 2018
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- 41N 75W
- Vehicle Year
- 2009
- Engine Type
- 2.3 (4 Cylinder)
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 2WD
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- It's down there.
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- Round.
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- I poop in the furnace.
While i agree with your sentiment on using oem parts, no ranger engine uses a filter with an anti drain valve. Motocraft or not. Anti drain valves only matter on above pan vertical mounted filters. There is no need for such a device on a normal side or bottom mounted filter. Ranger 2.3, 3.0 and 4.0 motorcraft filters have only bypass valves, but then so does even the cheapest wix garbage filter.start up clatter is due to using the incorrect oil filter
USE ONLY MOTORCRAFT FILTERS and you won't have that problem
reason being is cuz the motorcraft filters have anti-siphon anti-drain back valves so they do not bleed oil all the way down on shut off.
This is a very common problem on marauders, mach1's with the 4v aluminum engines that have plastic tensioners as well as the 3v 4.6/5.4 engines that are notorious for eating cam phasers. The tensioners and cam phasers fail due to not using the correct motorcraft oil filter and thus causing low oil pressure on startup.
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