Important Notice To all Dodge & Jeep Owners with the 2.0L 3.0L 3.2L & 3.6L Engines

USStrongman

Jeep Newb
Did mine last weekend. Oil change place cracked it form overtightening the oil filter housing. There is a redesign... but it is on national backorder. Had to replace with the OE part. Bottom pic measured just under 2" of oil in the valley.

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SlowPoke

Jeep Newb
I get that there are people who can't fix this themselves, but I wouldn't wait for FCA to stop shuffling their feet anytime soon. Find a local mechanic and get it replaced with the OEM part. Then change the oil yourself, or by someone you trust, to prevent lube center guy from screwing it up again. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
 

USStrongman

Jeep Newb
Its clearly a known issue... as they redesigned the part but there is no recall. FCA can suck a bag of (add your favorite noun here). The national backorder is on the redesigned part. Clearly having it made in China, thus the massive delay.

I too am just too broken to get under my rig. I've used the same shop for 3-4 years now. They owned up to it being their responsibility and have been pleasant to deal with. Since I paid for it out of pocket and am not charging them for labor, it made it easier. When someone comes to them and wants a check before having it repaired, they work a little harder to ensure you are going to actually repair it.

You can source the OE part without a problem. There are other generic manufacturers making the same part available through Auto Zone, O'Reillys, etc. But they are not OE. I ordered through the dealer.

If you do it yourself, you will also need these:
Upper intake gaskets
Lower intake gaskets
Spark plugs (if you're in there, replace them to save half a day of doing it later) Gapped at 0.043.
Depending on mileage, consider replacing coil packs also.
 

Woolyaz

Jeep Newb
@OscarMike your new discovery makes a lot of sense. Mine cracked and started leaking while running a trail at Sandhollow a little over a year ago. Dealer replaced under the powertrain warranty. If it happens again, I hope the new design is better and they will cover it under warranty from the initial repair.

Hang in their until the parts are available, once modified these Jeeps are a lifetime keeper, at least mine will be.
 

USStrongman

Jeep Newb
I took at look at my unit I replaced and sure enough, one of the O-rings was unseated of about 30% of the mating surface. Not sure that this was an issue with mine but maybe a contributing issue? I have a 1" crack directly under the filter housing from over torqueing the housing. MOPAR calls for 18lbs torque for that thin composite material. Way too much. My O-rings that mated to the black are black (2017), not orange.
 

USStrongman

Jeep Newb
So I think... what you are looking for is the redesigned unit, and as far as I can tell, it never entered the US market. moparpartsonline.com has several part numbers. New OE (2014 & up I think), new redesign and previous generations in 2011, 12, 13 which all have different part numbers. There are OE parts out there. I got mine from a dealer in Amarillo (2017) and was overnighted to my local dealer.

Call your local AutoZone or whoever you like and have them look. When I got mine, AutoZone had 4 of them in stock around West Texas. Again, it is the OE version that is available, not the redesign.
 

OscarMike

Jeep Lover
FYI: Final Post

Just to let you know, that the dealership installed the wrong part on our 3.6L engine, for the last few days we kept getting a strong coolant spell and desided to drive the jeep back to the dealership. while driving it back to the dealership the check engine light came on and a white smoke blew out the back of the jeep while on the highway. the jeep's engine blew a head gasket or both gaskets etc.. So we're out of the so called "jeeplife" once and for all. We don't appreciate how this was handled by Jeepcares & our dealership, The dealership deliberating lied to us saying they had the part in stock when they actually didn't. They used remanufactured parts with inferiors o-rings and it blew our head gaskets/s.

Always trust you first instinct and my first instinct was to get rid of the jeep once the oil filter adapter blew and couldn't be located.

oh and to anyone who just happens to get our jeep, be prepared to have the entire engine reworked or drop a new one in, Transmission was also going bad. Good Luck with that. we're out and for good.
 
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