i was doing my oil change last week and when i was taking off the oil filter this tube came off with it. this i believe was connected to the remote oil locator or the base where the oil goes to the cooler and then returns back? once i removed the shaft from the filter i put it back into the base, which apparently holds it up, to hand tight because i couldn't find a torque value for it. now i have oil running down my filter (not alot but i'm scared). any thoughts?

 

Are you talking about the round threaded sleeve that threads into the big hole on the oil filter or something else? I think that is hand tight. I just took my oil cooler off, so it is fresh in my head.

 

Mine did the same thing. Get a socket and get it tight.

The main problem with this is that when you remove the filter it screws on to the same fitting that holds the cooler onto the block.

I pulled about 50ft/lbs on mine and it worked for me.

Also, just a quick note about the stock oil cooler. The way the cooler works is anti-freeze is routed from the radiator into the cooler and back, the oil doesn't go anywhere.


It should be listed in the haynes book under the torque specifications. Not responsible for anything, blah, blah, blah.

 

alright, i'm glad someone got what i was trying to describe. so 50 lb/feet should do it?

 

It worked for me, but that was just trial and error that I was doing. It might be more or less, and would be worth looking in the book.

 

that was my first oil change haha my oil filter was so on there i had to pound a screw driver through it and hammer the **** out of it....when it finally came out i pulled the rod where it connects onto...i just tighted it down to around 20lbs...