Re: 4.7 oil pressure sending unit...was Removing Oil filter on 00 4.7.....

From: Dester223@aol.com
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 21:49:43 EDT


Not just your filter. I work at Valvoline instant oil change and my first
4.7L Durango engine was a @#$@# @ to get the filter off. We have oil filter
pliers and I seem to be the only one there that has the patience to stick my
hand through that stupid "hole cut out" and pry the filters off. I hate the
skid plate design. I dropped the plug once, and oil ran down the skid plates
and down my back. STUPID design.. Dodge needs to get booted for that one.
-Dester

<< Ok...I finally got it off....after pretty much
 destroying the filter...nothing left but the top plate
 and thread mount. Finally got it off by by using a
 pair of 90degree needle nose pliers..putting tips up
 into the return filter holes and turning...when I got
 it off the rubber seal was completely compressed and
 dry as a bone...whoever put it on at the factory
 didn't follow the lubing procedure or the torque
 specs.
>>



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