My 1985 Cougar V6, when started, it blows the oil filter gasket. Do you know what would cause this? Any suggestions as to a fix or repair would be appreciated. The engine has 60K miles and ran great until this problem developed.
Maybe the oil feed into the filter itself is partially clogged causing a pressure spike?:dunno: Have you hooked an actual guage to the car to see what your pressure actually is?
maybe lots of piston slap, but I doubt it.
someone put one of those ubber super oil pumps on it.
And you've already checked to make sure you don't have two gaskets in there (one on the new filter, one still stuck to the engine)?
Thanks for the input.
Is there a pressure relief valve for the oil pump/oil filter? The engine is totally stock with 60K miles. Don't have dual gaskets at the oil filter. If the oil feed is plugged, wouldn't I have less pressure to the filter rather than having it blow by the oil filter gasket?
the oil pump relief spring is bad/restricted/has trash in it. either way it is time for a new oil pump.
I went through this a few years ago on a 5.0 it would blow the fliter in two pieces.
Well i have a question that is similair to the object at hand. I got an oil leak coming from the seal just above where my oilfilter turns into, if i were to repalce this, would it be a pain in teh ass?
nobody knows?