Hey guys.....I was just wondering if anybody has had any trouble with the oil canister conversion to oil filter? Listen to this .....I have been noticeing a little oil drop when I pulled out the W for a little drive, and thought nothing of it, till today. It started as usual, backed out of the garage about 30ft. and i just happened to look ahead of the car and I see this trail of oil following me out. So I procedded to shut it off, got out of the car, looked under it, and here it was, drip, drip,drip from the area of the oil filter, at least I thought that was it. I pushed the car into the garage, lifted it up, got my jack stands under the car and started to investigate. What I found was the oil filter was just loose, but not to the point of coming off. Now I took off the filter,( remind you now that I converted it over to the filter a few years ago, I would say at least 3 years) and I noticed the threaded part the fits into the block was loose and the nut to hold it tight was loose also, how did that ever happen. So I got my ball peen hammer and a drift, unscrew that fitting just a bit and procedded to tighten the nut. Then I put the filter back on and started it up and checked for leaks, which there were none, jacked it up, pulled out the jacks and lowered the car back down.
Now the clean up job....that took me awhile.......has anybody had any trouble with these conversions doing this? I would think that if I did something wrong during the conversion, I would of seen this happen sooner ( I think) any suggestions on this?
Now the clean up job....that took me awhile.......has anybody had any trouble with these conversions doing this? I would think that if I did something wrong during the conversion, I would of seen this happen sooner ( I think) any suggestions on this?