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Pockets · Nov 8, 2015

It read a car was coming over into his lane and he went to change lanes to avoid that and hydro planed.

Ford460power · Nov 8, 2015

My 2005 king ranch f250

6speedsd · Nov 8, 2015

With the wrong oil filter/cap......

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lincolnlocker · Nov 8, 2015

6speedsd said:
With the wrong oil filter/cap......

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i have read that a few times now.. whats the deal with them?

and ya know you could say it different like, you might want to try a different cap like ________ so you dont have an issue with______ in the future.. and give the reason why...

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Towerguy · Nov 8, 2015

The tall oil filter cap is for some aftermarket oil filters. The OEM filter is shorter and if used in combination with that cap it doesn't filter properly. The OEM filter cap is a much lower profile, it resembles the fuel filter cap, once you know what you are looking for it sticks out like a sore thumb.

lincolnlocker · Nov 8, 2015

Towerguy said:
The tall oil filter cap is for some aftermarket oil filters. The OEM filter is shorter and if used in combination with that cap it doesn't filter properly. The OEM filter cap is a much lower profile, it resembles the fuel filter cap, once you know what you are looking for it sticks out like a sore thumb.

oh ok. makes sense. so if the correct filteris indeed being used with said cap then it is not wrong?. guess ill have to google a pic to see the difference in caps..

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Towerguy · Nov 8, 2015

lincolnlocker said:
oh ok. makes sense. so if the correct filteris indeed being used with said cap then it is not wrong?. guess ill have to google a pic to see the difference in caps..

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Not sure about that, I've only ever run OEM filters in mine so I've never really paid the aftermarket filters any attention. As a group, they generally are not thought well of and a Motorcraft is too easy to find on store shelves. But if you buy a truck used and plan to use stock filters, you definitely need to watch out for that cap and make sure it is stock.

6speedsd · Nov 8, 2015

It's a pretty obvious difference in cap height. With most of those aftermarket ones, the filter is actually glued into the cap, where the OEM filter snaps into a OEM cap. There used to be a sticky here about using the wrong caps/filters...not sure if it's still on the site or not.

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lincolnlocker · Nov 8, 2015

6speedsd said:
It's a pretty obvious difference in cap height. With most of those aftermarket ones, the filter is actually glued into the cap, where the OEM filter snaps into a OEM cap. There used to be a sticky here about using the wrong caps/filters...not sure if it's still on the site or not.

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10-4

like the 7.3 filters then..

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Ford460power · Nov 8, 2015

It's a wix filter, the element is glued to the top. It's a taller filter overal.

obs7.3 · Nov 9, 2015

6speedsd said:
It's a pretty obvious difference in cap height. With most of those aftermarket ones, the filter is actually glued into the cap, where the OEM filter snaps into a OEM cap. There used to be a sticky here about using the wrong caps/filters...not sure if it's still on the site or not.

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I know the sticky you're talking about, I used to use wix filters and the cap is a lot taller than the OEM one but after reading that thread I went back to motorcraft. just in case anyone is curious, rockauto.com has the cheapest price for motorcraft 6.0/6.4 oil and fuel filters that I've found...

6speedsd · Nov 9, 2015

Cheaper than here?

Diesel-filters.com

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Towerguy · Nov 9, 2015

6speedsd said:
Cheaper than here?

Diesel-filters.com

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That's the best price I ever found. I used to buy several at a time from dieselfiltersonline.com until I got clued into them. It's even cheaper to forgo the Motorcraft branded ones and buy the white box Racor filters. Saves $4.10 per filter, $12.05 for the plain box Racor versus $16.25 for the Motorcraft.