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Is this screen still being used in the 2010 XR6T motor or have Ford ditched it?

Yep they sure do. Pissed mine off when I bought the car

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Did this process couple of days ago, car has done 120K and the screen was pretty ristricted by oil contaminats.....too be honest the build up was not that bad, but, becuase ford have chosen such a fine screen it takes f%*k all for them too become really restrictive. I couldn't blow air through it! I turfed mine, as all my previous cars with ball bearing turbo's never had a screen.....

By the way, the best tips for making this job easy and fast are......buy two deep sockets (22 & 24mm) from super cheap roughly $10 all up, and remove the air box and access it from above...do these things and it's not that difficult....

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The job is not as hard as you might think guys.

Pull of the air box and oil filter off and you have plenty of access from the top,I also jacked the car up to get a look at what was what, only took me half an hour.

If you use a deep 24mm socket you don't have to remove the sender,use a breaker bar and it will come apart easy.

Don't worry about the banjo fitting the bolt will just rotate within it, the fitting in the block will tend to stay put as it has more friction.

I also replaced the old O ring type washers with the plain copper type and no problems.

Just wanted to point out the ease of doing this as I think a lot of people are putting this off as they believe its a wife of a job.

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Good thread with lots of excellent "How to" info.

My BA has done 90000km, and yesterday morning I noticed a slightly different tone to the turbo as the turbine was spinning down at shutdown. Just a subtle different sound which wasn't quite right.

Chased around yesterday and managed to pick up a replacement filter fitting and copper washers, and replaced the unit today.

The posts above sure made the job easy.

Removal of the air box to provide some work room is the key.

Getting to the screen fitting (up against the block) with a 24mm open ender is the hard part.

Using a long 24mm socket over the top of the oil pressure sender (after removing the cable connector) makes the job relatively easy.

Just another tip.... when reinstalling the oilscreen fitting, position it so that the 24mm open end spanner can get to it from above... makes future access easier.

My screen was almost completely blocked. Good news is, after fitting the new screen, the turbo spin down is now silent.

Phew!

Got that done just in time.

Like it was said above. If you have a few years and a few kms on the motor....

DO IT! Remove and check / clean or replace it...

Don't procrastinate.

It really is a time bomb.

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I put an earls filter kit on my car on weekend. The orginal filter had actually collapsed!! Very happy I did this!

Just out of curiosity, the earls filter had directional arrows on it to show flow. I've put it on backwards. Being just a screen, it shouldn't matter should it??

Also I now have a small leak from my oil sender for aftermarket gauge. Will have to put some high temp thread sealant on there.

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The directional arrow on the filter is due too the way the filter screen is fitted. Its sits on a step in the body of the filter.

Its "possible" that the screen could be pushed off its seat with the flow running through it backwards but it would need too be fairly blocked for that too happen

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Getting my Speedflow line and Motorsport Connections inline filter fitted on Tuesday with valve springs.. Just read this whole thread and am so glad I decided to do this!

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I had my BFII in for service (120k) the other day and got the mechanic to remove the oil feel line filter/mesh (he'd never heard of anything like it in other cars and only works on turbo/modded cars)

Luckily it wasn't blocked up, but safest to remove anyways.

How long does this normally take to do? His charged 2.5hrs labour to do this! Seems an aweful long time, I would have expected less time than this if I was doing it at home without a hoist!

took me an hour to do with the wrong tools at home..

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I pulled off the oil line from the turbo and started the motor no oil coming thru so I put compressed air straight into the line then restarted the car heaps of oil now a temporary fix for now

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