Thread: loose oil filter!

yesterday i took my car for a drive and all was well until i parked it and noticed a puddle of oil on the ground . last time i did an oil change was about 2000 miles ago and i drive it once a week. i immediately checked the oil level and it was full. it started to leak when the car was off. i thought it was leaking from the pan but saw drops coming from the oil filter so i cleaned it with a rag and it was really loose. i have prothane mounts and i've had some nuts and bolts rattle loose here and there but never an oil filter. this was a first for me.

Wasn't tightened enough last time you changed the oil. Be happy nothing bad happened.

I've also seen two oil filter rubber orings installed....one was accidentally left on by whomever did the last oil change. Didn't leak either! They too, were extremely lucky!

could be worse

How did THAT happen?!?!

That's over-tightening.

Roller Rocker?

Most likely yes..
...however,I had a VE one break super easy once on me and before the filter was even close to tight .
After removing the mount and looking at it..the thing was very poorly casted(like potmetal).
I also recently had a oil leak that was actually seeping through the casting on another (VE) oil filter mount.
Me thinks there was a QC problem somewhere along the line with these parts

Luckily, for the VE at least, it's just three 12MM bolts to remove the entire oil filter mounting. I just did it the other day to replace the leaking oil dummy switch

The casting inside is terrible, snapped at 8k rpm on track.