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Spark when taking off oil filter?
Was doing my oil change today and when I unscrewed my oil filter it made a massive spark...
 
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maybe static?
 
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No, it's the stupid location of the oil filter on the 3.0's
 
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Ahh so you guys seen it before?
 
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One time i was getting mine changed and the guy couldnt get it off so he got some pliers or something out and i think he hit the wires on the starter or something and he blew a hole in the oil filter.
 
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Have you checked around the filter area for any wiring that may be bare, broken or a loose wires ?

I looked on my 03, 3.0, EDGE and nothing, I have changed my oil a number of time and have never had a problem with sparks; watch the next oil chg will have sparks everywhere.
 
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Ya they had a bad placement on my 3.0l on my nissan pickup. I hit the starter a few times...the 4.0L on the range is way easy.
 
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One time i was getting mine changed and the guy couldnt get it off so he got some pliers or something out and i think he hit the wires on the starter or something and he blew a hole in the oil filter.
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bad ground ?.
 
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You deffinatly hit the starter. I did the same once when I first got the truck and changed the oil. hit it with the oil filter wrench.
 
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