Fuel Filter Problem, FSDE Block, Please Help!!!

[dcdirtrider]

Ok. So I am trying to swap a 2001 626 to my msp. I am having trouble with the spacer between the oil filter and the block. On the MSP engine, there is a long thread that allows the excess spacing that the spacer creates. The 626 engine does not have long enough tread to allow for the spacer. I was wondering how the msp owners who have done this before have coped with this issue. Can you unscrew the longer threads out of the msp block to put in the 626 block. If so, How. Here are some pics to show what the problem is.

This is the Mazda MSP Engine

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This is the Mazda 626 Engine (too short)

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This is the way the spacer is suppose to look with the MSP engine

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This is how it looks now with the 626 engine

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[StealthWyvern]

swap the thing.....

 

[dcdirtrider]

how to i get it out? there are no divots or places to get a wrench on or socket. How to I pull it out?

 

[Preferio]

Get a set of vice grips Ans clamp as close to the block as possible. Voila! Ask any MSP owner here how many times I've had to do the same thing... lol

 

[Preferio]

And by the way, this "fuel filter" you're talking about is actually an oil cooler.

 

[dcdirtrider]

Sorry. That is what I meant. So wont putting that much pressure on the threads do damage to the threads? Is that the only way to get it out?

 

[Preferio]

The lower portion of the threads do nothing. There's a void between the block and the nut that holds the cooler on, so realistically it doesn't matter. It doesn't take that much clamping force to get it out anyway.

 

[Preferio]

I have, honest to god, done this 5 times. I'm on my fourth motor this year. I finally went forged.

 

[dcdirtrider]

Alright. Thank you guys for your help. And I think I might have to go forged now that I got the motor out.

 

[dcdirtrider]

Alright. Thank you guys for your help. And I think I might have to go forged now that I got the motor out.

 

[jeffmsp]

put two thin "nuts" on the threaded piece and remove via double jam nut method. takes 1 min to do it right. i actually managed to use just 1 nut and a left over oil filter to get mine out. just thread the nut half on, then thread the oil filter into the nut, then turn the nut into the oil filter until the entire threaded piece comes loose.

 

[KrayzieFox]

^That's how I did it too.. using the nut that holds down the oil cooler and an old oil filter.

 

[BRIAN_MP5T]

Let us know if you need help with the forged install

 

[StealthWyvern]

put two thin "nuts" on the threaded piece and remove via double jam nut method. takes 1 min to do it right. i actually managed to use just 1 nut and a left over oil filter to get mine out. just thread the nut half on, then thread the oil filter into the nut, then turn the nut into the oil filter until the entire threaded piece comes loose.

+1 wow hadn't been on here in a minute but this is the properway. use two nuts and one acts as a stopper for the other nut to allow you to take it off or as jeff did, the oil filter was the jam nut in his case.