Disaster Changing Oil Today! (pics)

yeah

 

Saw this picture, looks like all you need is a large allen wrench to install.

 

It is not all that common, especially on some diesels. If you get a rag or something to protect the threads you can unscrew it from the filter. Screw it back in to the oil cooler/filter housing. The Isuzu NPR's are the worse. Believe me, it's not that uncommon.

 

Got the part finally - a few things that is good for anyone to know who goes through this:

The oil filter side takes a Torx T60 bit and allows you to tighten the nipple down tight. I couldn't see this part since it was stuck inside my old oil filter but the new piece you can see clear that the side the oil filter screws onto has the Torx fitting.

I had to remove the battery to keep proper angle on screwing in the new nipple (i didnt want to cross thread once again by ratcheting at a weird angle).

All in all the fix for this only took 15 minutes. Its the 5 days of waiting for the part that took the longest.

 

Excellent.

 

I had an old cop car years ago, chev impala, filter was stuck so bad I had to drive a screwdriver through it to get it off. Nipple came off also. Went to the local garage, showed the mechanic the nipple, he loaned me the bit to retorque it. Always had trouble getting the filters off until a friend asked me what i was lubricating the oring on the filter with. I had always used some of the old oil on it. He told me to use fresh oil on the seal and I never had any more issues afterwards with any vehicle that I changed the oil on.

 

Been following this thread. Glad it worked out.

 

Thanks. I actually found out about the Torx size for this from search result on another board on how to install a factory oil cooler and it talked about the disassembly of the nipple into the oil body housing.

Its great to be back on the road!

 

I hope you put some red loctite on the threads before threading into the filter head.

 

Actually no i didn't. My fear was that if i use Red, then the only way to undo it is to use heat which isnt really viable in that setup.

The T-60 Torx is able to let me tighten it down good, and from now on just hand tightening the filter effortlessly will ensure that it simply comes off fine. And for some reason if the post did loosen up i can simply torque it down again with the T-60. My main fear if this happened again for some reason and it was in place with Loctite, then getting it out and getting it fixed could be a much bigger problem that time around. Plus i got an extra nipple just in case.

 

Must not have put on enough old oil or overtightened it. I have only used old oil on my filters for 35 years with no issue.

 

Fair enough. There is a chance it will work loose again over time since the aluminum housing will expand more with heat, but it will probably be OK as you did it. If it happens again, I'd definitly use some loctite and never have to worry about it again. Its not like loctite is actually permanent anyway, its not that hard to break red free even without heat. Good you're up and running again in any case.

 

Thanks Phil hope it never happens again! Now your making me think i should have loctite it...!! Guess i could remove clean threads and do it on the next oil change...

 

Woot!

Amazed that it actually is a Torx and not an Allen.

Good job!

 

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!