Originally Posted by midnightxr6

So there i am happy with my falcon when i decided to change the little nut filter for supplying oil ro the turbo.

A little over tighten resulted in this mess.


Cracked block area in 3 places on the thread.

Tried to fix it with autoweld but never worked.

Decided it was too much hassle to weld so ordered a forged block from OZ.

Ready to strip



Heart out



Heavy Duty valve springs ready to go.


A little head clean up


Block getting prepped.



And thats s far as its got so far.

An expensive lesson on why not to over torque a simple fitting.