These cars never cease to amaze me...(long)

[rabbit16v@prodigy.net (Dave Ewing)]

No offense but it sounds like the oil filter was too loose!!  I've never had
this problem and I drive my car HARD!!

Dave

> Found a new failure mode yesterday (thumbs down)
>
> Went for a nice long drive at lunch, lots of full throttle highway stuff,
> got the oil temps up and generally just tried to shake off the winter
> blahs...parked the car, came back out, and started the car.   Pulled into
> traffic, the oil pressure light comes on, so I crawl down to the Mobil at
> the corner and park the car. I immediately notice a HUGE volume of oil
> pouring off the bottom of the block in the general area of the oil filter.
>
> Turns out that the filter had spun loose!  I had the oil temps above 110C
> for a while, and then parked the car and it cooled down to whatever the
> outside temps were, say 20F-ish.  Aparently the expanding and contracting
of
> the oil filter was enough to break the seal between the filter body and
the
> oil filter flange, and it rotated loose a bit.   So...I oiled the
underside
> of my hood, left a gigantic puddle of oil in front of the Mobil, and
bought
> a couple unexpected quarts of oil.
>
> Fun.
>
> Marc
>
>
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