Oil Feed Line Removal WTF?!?!

[Tom Sawyer]

Ok I've got the oil and coolant drained as well as the whole intake and exhaust mani removed as well as disconnected downpipe. All I need to get this d@mn T25 out is to remove the oil feed line...at either end. I couldn't seem to get it off at the turbo so I figured I'd go for the other end. Open end wrench had no grip so I went out and bought a crow foot wrench (near box end) and it still won't budge. I've tried Liquid Wrench, hitting it with a flathead and hammer, and cursing a lot. The only thing that seems to help the situation is the cursing . If someone can enlighten me as to what the hell I could be doing wrong here that would be great. I'm about to tear my hair out with everything off except the oil feed line!

Tom

 

[larryd]

when I put the Big28 in the car we disco'd the oil feed line inbetween where the line run from the cooler to the turbo. I know it was quite a pita but it did eventually come undone.. THough it needed to be replaced becuase we mangled it pretty bad.

 

[SMI]

yep. last 2g I worked on we had to heat it up and mangle it to get it off. Keep wrenching at it, it will come off sometime.

 

[jdmawd]

Originally posted by Tom Sawyer
Ok I've got the oil and coolant drained as well as the whole intake and exhaust mani removed as well as disconnected downpipe. All I need to get this d@mn T25 out is to remove the oil feed line...at either end. I couldn't seem to get it off at the turbo so I figured I'd go for the other end. Open end wrench had no grip so I went out and bought a crow foot wrench (near box end) and it still won't budge. I've tried Liquid Wrench, hitting it with a flathead and hammer, and cursing a lot. The only thing that seems to help the situation is the cursing . If someone can enlighten me as to what the hell I could be doing wrong here that would be great. I'm about to tear my hair out with everything off except the oil feed line!

Tom

SOAK the fitting with wd40 or PB blaster. let it sit for at least 15 minutes. it will come off, no need to mangle things in you're frustration.

 

[Turbo Guru]

Use a flare wrench, it will make life easier.

 

[RamenPride]

the little flare nut (attatched to the line) at the oil filter housing requires an 11mm flare nut wrench. i could not find one anywhere, so i tried to use a regular 11mm box wrench. of course this rounded it off, so i then tried and adjustable wrench, and then vice grips. nope, didn't work either. so i used a dremel and cut off the line as close as i could to the flare nut. took a ratchet and a socket to it, and it came off with very little effort

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Well I got the flare nut wrench in 11mm and had to tap it on there with a hammer and flathead it was so tight...and even with that it was trying to round off the nut. I don't need this line anymore so I think I'm just gonna cut it as close to the nut as possible, heat it up, and take it off with a socket. If I keep trying with these wrenches there will be nothing left of the nut for the socket to grab. Thanks for the insight guys.

Tom

 

[FourG63 97GST]

How did you eventually get It out, I'm having the same problem an Its pissing me off.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Make sure it's soaked with Liquid Wrench, and then cut the oil feed line with a dremel close to the fitting. Once it's cut you can slip a socket on the bigger of the two fittings, the one holding the oil feed fitting in. Take that one out. Then you should have a big fitting with a smaller one threaded inside it. Put the small one in a vice from the top. Tighten that bish so tight that the little fitting is getting crushed. Take a socket, 19mm I believe it was, and unscrew the big fitting. Then put the oil feed cap provided in the kit in the big fitting and screw it back in.

Tom

 

[FourG63 97GST]

Another thing, did you get the oil feed from AGP? was it tight when you were screwing it into the other oil feed line.

because mine was goin in freely at first, then it began to tighten. I started the car and its leaking not at the thread itself but right behind the not on the AGP line(it still spins freely). is it suppose get tighter.
dont want to cross threads on that new line

 

[nine5raptor]

interesting...the easiest thing for me to get off was the oil feed line. I broke 2 sockets trying to get the turbo to mani bolts of though