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oil filter stud

I don't know if anyone is keeping score, but my oil filter stud backed out on the highway!!! So, I thread locked it on the shoulder of the highway, added oil and limped it home. Tomorrow I get to investigate the severity!
 

maroonmetallic

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I think that threadlock is part of the Mitsu roadside assistance package found in most portable (trunk able) toolboxes. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

-Shawn
 

Barnes

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Lol @ maroon.

Hopefully since you were able to drive it home you are okay.

Probably not a bad idea to redo what you did on the side of the highway. A new o-ring(big orange thing) for the oil cooler is also highly recommended.
 

So getting on the "accelerator ramp" I felt my 4WS kick a little to hard, by the time I looked out the mirror I saw a cloud of smoke and an Oil trail! By the time I got on the shoulder and looked @ the dash the idiot light was illuminating.

Medium strenght threadlocker in the center console @ all times!!!

I got a friend to pick me up @ about 3:30, went to the local dealer, no O-ring, drove to the a dealer w/ 1 in stock ~ 1hour away and was told "it is for a job, not for sale!!!" Then @ 7:15, I found a Hydrolic Repair shop still open and got an O-ring to match. This was the 1st time since I've owned a DSM (um, like 6 years now) that i haven't had a tool kit in my car, FTL. So I got my friend to take me to Pep Boys bought 5 qts of oil and "permanent thread locker." Stopped @ my house and grabbed deep 24mm, strap wrench, A big cardboard box (poor man's disposable creeper), jack and flashlights. I got it all back 2gether and limped her home a couple of miles.
Looks like I need to get a '90 oil housing and an Aftermorket Oil Pressure Gauge. After 6 post '90 DSMs, this is my 1st to have that stud back out.

BTW, the O-ring was in perfect condition. So i spent the rest of the night drinking and shooting a pistol @ my friends.
 
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GVR4_1057

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^"So i spent the rest of the night drinking and shooting a pistol @ my friends"

So the question is were you too drunk to hit any of them? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hsugh.gif
 

NYC86ZC

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Welcome to the club. #541 was only on the road for 20 hours before it unscrewed.

That reminds me that i never threadlocked #761's....
 

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So the question is were you too drunk to hit any of them?



More like not drunk enough!
 
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