As some of you may have read in my intro. I’m new here.
Very very long story short I bought a WE4 brand new and it sat in my sisters garage under a car cover for 21ish years because my mom passed and she lent me the money to buy it. So it was too upsetting to look at. But my sister retired and sold her NY house and is moving down here. So I had to have my car shipped here. Now I’m really back into it.
So after replacing the entire fuel system from the tank to the rail and every fluid in the car. Ad well as the ecu (wouldn’t fire the fuel pump or display the check engine light). I cranked it a little without any power to the ecu to prime it a little. When I started it up the oil light didn’t go off so I shut it off right away. I remember having this problem a long time ago with my other Grand National and the pump was sucking air.
So I decided as long as I’m under the car might as well replace the pump gears and spring. So yesterday I picked up the oil pump and went to work. I pulled out the 4 visible bolts but I forgot about the bolts behind the cooler lines. I didn’t bother removing the lines because I figured I could just push that plate to the side. Anything oil and hose related I try not to disturb if I can avoid it out of fear it’s gunna leak when I put it back together especially on a 31 year old car.
Ok so this is my question. I don’t have a large enough socket to remove the fastener nut that screws onto the actual oil filter threads holding that oil cooler sandwich plate on. I’m going to buy that one socket today but I don’t know the size. I know it’s big but can anyone post up the size? I literally searched this entire forum as well as a google search and came up empty. Can anyone post up the size? And if that plate just slides right off or do I have to do anything else to get to those 2 hidden bolts to get this pump done.
Thank you all in advance
Very very long story short I bought a WE4 brand new and it sat in my sisters garage under a car cover for 21ish years because my mom passed and she lent me the money to buy it. So it was too upsetting to look at. But my sister retired and sold her NY house and is moving down here. So I had to have my car shipped here. Now I’m really back into it.
So after replacing the entire fuel system from the tank to the rail and every fluid in the car. Ad well as the ecu (wouldn’t fire the fuel pump or display the check engine light). I cranked it a little without any power to the ecu to prime it a little. When I started it up the oil light didn’t go off so I shut it off right away. I remember having this problem a long time ago with my other Grand National and the pump was sucking air.
So I decided as long as I’m under the car might as well replace the pump gears and spring. So yesterday I picked up the oil pump and went to work. I pulled out the 4 visible bolts but I forgot about the bolts behind the cooler lines. I didn’t bother removing the lines because I figured I could just push that plate to the side. Anything oil and hose related I try not to disturb if I can avoid it out of fear it’s gunna leak when I put it back together especially on a 31 year old car.
Ok so this is my question. I don’t have a large enough socket to remove the fastener nut that screws onto the actual oil filter threads holding that oil cooler sandwich plate on. I’m going to buy that one socket today but I don’t know the size. I know it’s big but can anyone post up the size? I literally searched this entire forum as well as a google search and came up empty. Can anyone post up the size? And if that plate just slides right off or do I have to do anything else to get to those 2 hidden bolts to get this pump done.
Thank you all in advance