Anyone else have this happen?

[santa]

I took the car out for a beat run and in the middle of 3rd gear I had a massive blue cloud of smoke come out of my engine bay area. Oil on the windsheild, and on the tires. It was everywhere!! I got it home costing into the driveway. I left it sit until yesterday when I got some more oil. I checked everything out quick. I started it up and, it ran rough. I shut her off and noticed all the oil I had put in had been pumped out by my nice new mitsu oil pump!! I took a closer look to the oil filter area becuase, thats where the oil seemed to be coming from (keeping in mind I just replaced the oil filter housing that some how cracked). I grabbed my oil filter which I had tightened a little extra with an oil filter wrench, and it seemed loose!!!! I couldn't believe that it had backed off. Well, it actually didnt back off. The gasket some how blew itself out! I didn't double up the gasket or anything stupid like that. Needless to say I'm going to drop my oil pan and throw some new rod bearings in just to be safe since they are cheap. I will never use a valvoline oil filter again!!!

[turbotalon1g]

^valvoline oil filter, that is probably it.
I use napa gold, no problems so far, if not any other Wix made filter.

[FattyBoomBatty]

Too tight - could be you squeezed the o-ring out a little in one spot. Pretty sure it doesn't matter what oil filter you use, when you are talking about structural integrity. Filtering performance would be the only difference.

[santa]

Too tight - could be you squeezed the o-ring out a little in one spot. Pretty sure it doesn't matter what oil filter you use, when you are talking about structural integrity. Filtering performance would be the only difference. Yeah, to tight did pass through my mind.

[x-pride]

Did you use a new orange o ring when you installed your oil coolant cooler?

[blageo23]

There is also the problem with the bolt that holds the oil cooler on(water oil cooler) is also the threads that hold the filter on. Well that bolt thingy loosens up which will loosen the oil filter.

http://www.vfaq.com/mods/oilcool.html

[santa]

There is also the problem with the bolt that holds the oil cooler on(water oil cooler) is also the threads that hold the filter on. Well that bolt thingy loosens up which will loosen the oil filter.

http://www.vfaq.com/mods/oilcool.html :lol: I would never use those oil filter housing that have coolant running though them. Mine is just the oil filter housing with the sending unit on it and thats it.

[x-pride]

:lol: I would never use those oil filter housing that have coolant running though them. Mine is just the oil filter housing with just the sending unit on it and thats it.
So you are using a 91-94 oil filter housing unit with out the cooler?

[Swifty1638]

I run the external oil cooler on my setup-no problems like that!

-A. Swift

[TkrPerformance]

That happend to my bro this summer. We were going down hwy 10 and were pulling on a procharged firebird. His filter o-ring blew got the his car and my car full of oil. Put a new filter on it filled it full of oil. The engine was fine but it starved the pte61 and burnt it.