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

[rapieper@yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

Hmmm...careful on that assumption about the filter vibrating loose.  I
thought mine had as well, but instead, I found that excess pressure had
actually blew the filter down a thread.  I had a blocked pressure
bypass valve in the oil pump, caused by a failed rear mail seal (the
coiled wire spring came off and eventually got sucked into the pump). 
Now, you might be right (and I hope you are) but keep you eyes on that
pressure light until sure that it was just vibration that loosened the
filter!

Ron

--- Marc Peterson <mpeters6@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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