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Jan 26, 2023 | 06:10 AM

Iantiler

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From: Danville KY

Dry Oil Filter

After months of coming up with excuses for why I needed a bigger truck I recently bought a 92 XLT F150 4x4 with a 5.0l engine. One of the first things I thought I needed to do was change the oil, drained the oil pulled the filter then panicked, oil filter was completely DRY no sign it had ever had oil in it
Big question how and why?

Jan 26, 2023 | 10:17 AM

Prototypemech

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Yes. That's very strange. After the oil gets pumped throu the oil-pump, it goes throu the oil filter. It's a full-flow oil filter so there's no external bypass. Does your oil pressure gauge show 'low' when the engine is off, and then move to the middle of the gauge when you start the engine? How long have you run the engine since you've had it?

Jan 26, 2023 | 12:28 PM

Iantiler

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Thanks for the reply! Bought the truck out of state, about three hours form home. Took it for about a fifteen minute test drive, spent about another thirty minutes rolling around under it on a creeper and generally checking everything fluids etc. Tires were badly dry rotted so I a got the truck shipped. Shipper dropped it off in a Save A Lot parking lot about a mile from my house, drove it home
What little I did drive it sounded good, ran well, no engine noises. Fast forward to now, battery is in the basement right now, I'll put it back in the truck tomorrow or Saturday and see what the oil pressure gauge does and update you then. Thanks again!

Jan 26, 2023 | 07:42 PM

Mudsport96

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You drove for 15 minutes and the oil filter is dry? That seems impossible to me.

Jan 26, 2023 | 08:06 PM

Iantiler

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Seems impossible to me too, is there someway the filter could be bypassed? Looking down the center inside of the filter I couldn't see any paper filter material you would normally see, looked like just silver metal. If the filter is defective could that cause that? I'll look inside the garage tomorrow, hopefully I still have the filter. Thanks for the reply!

Feb 9, 2023 | 06:34 PM

Old Guy F-250

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With all this trouble here, I would check closely to be sure that someone did not cross thread a filter before and not letting the new filter mate flush all way around.
Check all threads make sure they are clean and go all the way to the base.
X 4 on Motorcraft filters.