 What's up Mopar fam I hope everybody out there is having an awesome day out there. So today's video as you see we have my 2015 Dodge Durango over here. This has the 3.6 liter V6 engine and we're going to be talking about some of the do's and don'ts to keep you from having to replace this thing but if you end up having to replace it stay tuned. All right so some of you guys will probably already know what this is in my hand. This is an oil filter cooler assembly for a 3.6 liter like your Chargers and Challengers, the Ram 1500, the Pro Masters, some of your Chryslers, your Town and Country minivans, Jeeps, it goes on and on and on. The 3.6 liter is a workhorse for the Dodge and Chrysler line, no doubt about it. There's tons and tons of these engines out there and mine's been awesome. I have had zero issues with our 3.6 liter but there are some common failures going on with them and most of it is actually because of the user or the mechanic. So we're going to talk about this thing a little bit. We're going to talk about what not to do and what you should do and if it's already too late what you got to do. So here we go. On all the 3.6 liters the oil filter is located basically on top of the engine and this is it right here. This neck comes up from the top of the motor and then you have an oil filter cap right here. Now under the cap is your actual oil filter canister and I actually love this design. They made this very super easy to get to to build replace the oil filter and do an oil change on these engines. I actually love this thing. Now what's going on is on top of the cap it actually has a torque setting up here. 25 Newton meters is what's recommended to tighten these caps down to and what's going on is a lot of people are over tightening them or they're cross-threading the cap. Now keep in mind this assembly is plastic. Now the actual oil cooler itself is aluminum but the entire thing is made of plastic. So if you cross-thread these if you cross-thread the cap or you over tighten it and strip out the threads you're a goner. You have no choice but to replace this entire unit. Now luckily this unit right here in my hand this is from Spalab Auto Parts. They have a direct drop-in unit that comes complete with all the hardware. It's got the bolts, the cap, the oil filters already in it. It's got the sensors on the back already that are already installed. As you can see there's one here one there and it even comes with the intake manifold gaskets. As you guessed it if you have to replace this unit it is located underneath the intake manifold so you do have to remove the intake manifold to get to this cooler assembly but it's really not that big of a job it's pretty straightforward. Other than that these things are really not notorious for leaking or having issues. The number one thing is people are over tightening the cap or they're cross-threading it and I've actually seen some videos out there where people has actually snapped the neck off of these things because they tighten them down so much or because they cross-threaded the cap and then the next oil change they went to do the cap was pretty much seized and did not want to come off so after applying so much force trying to remove it the neck actually cracks or fractures and then you're done and you have to get a new unit. So again not a big deal it's just more of one of those things where you have to pay attention and do the job correctly. Again don't over tighten this this is an o-ring seal so it doesn't have to have a lot of pressure a lot of force on here not to leak. The o-ring will seal it up all you're doing is pretty much tightening down this cap and you're bottoming it out right here against this frame so you don't have to go all hulk hogan on this thing and crunch it down until you start hearing things crunch and crack not good. 25 newton meters is what they recommend and that's it no more when you're putting the cap on you know the threads on these things are pretty coarse they're plastic it's actually believe you're not pretty easy to cross-thread the cap and you may not know it but if you cross-thread it and then you put your torque wrench on there or your wrench and you start to try to tighten it down and you start to pull these threads or cross-thread it a little bit you're going to be in a world of hurt because there's really not a tool out there per se to chase threads that big around you know let alone these plastic threads you know when you cross thread on plastic it kind of just rips them out or tears them up it's a no go so again just take your time make sure you thread the cap on evenly and it should thread down very easy if you if there's any resistance take it back off and start over that's pretty much all there is guys but again splab auto parts sent me this unit luckily i don't need it for mine yet and hopefully i never need it but they sent me this thing because we have a mopar channel they know i got a v6 dorango so i figured i'd do a review on it and again this is a very solid unit from splab auto parts comes complete with everything the hardware sensors the intake manifold gaskets everything's in a box ready to go and it's not that expensive either it's going to set you back about 150 bucks i'm sure that is much much cheaper than a dealer part and again from what i can see this thing is very solid everything is well made it's got even the little seals here on the bottom they are these already come pre assembled on the bottom as well so you don't need anything all you needed some tools one of these units if yours is already a goner or if you're doing a repair job behind somebody that's already messed it up this is all you need so in the video description below if you click on that you'll see the link to this product from splab auto parts it'll take you right to their store i believe it's about 150 bucks and again comes completely comes complete with everything you need to do the job also on their website they have some pictures and some how-to steps to actually replacing this so very helpful there if you're trying to tackle this your first time and you're not you know you don't really work on stuff all the time they got some how-to steps and procedures along with some pictures on their website of what it takes to replace this thing and it's really not that bad like i said you do have to remove the intake manifold because the intake manifold sits above this and then that's pretty much it it's it's not all that bad but very very preventative again we'll go over you know make sure you take your time you thread the cap on correctly and you don't over torque these caps and then you most likely will never need one of these things but that's the number one failure that pretty much is going across the board even some quick lubes you know there's always that one guy that instead of grabbing a wrench or something like that he's going to grab his uggaduga gun and put a socket on this thing and try to crank it down real quick and hey if you've done enough times i'm sure you can get by like that but every now and then you might have a boo boo and we've been seeing some issues with this so that's what's going on and uh i think that's going to do it for this video so again if you need one of these links in the video description below as always guys stay safe out there don't forget hit that subscribe button and we'll see you guys on the next one