oil filter backing off under boost?

[snailpower]

Ok, so twice i've noticed a puddle of oil under the car. I take it into the garage to get under it and the oil filter is hanging on......barely! Drained the oil and decided to investigate, after I removed the filter I grabbed the guts of the cooler and they were a little less than hand tight. I tightened everything back up and I have my fingers crossed that this will be all to this problem. I just thought i'd post my experience, so hopefully it can help someone else. Please post any other possible causes and/or fixes to an oil filter backing off. I'm only running 14lbs of boost currently, I'd like to be running around 20lbs, but now i'm kinda leary.

 

[1991gs-t]

Did you remove your balance shafts? If so, that causes higher oil pressure and if the filter simply wanst on tight enough, it could just have slowly found its way loose. Next time when you put the filter on, take a towel and clean the filter and your hands up from any oil.....then turn the filter real hard to make it nice and tight....don't worry about overtorqing it with your hands....most of us dont have rocky forearm's. Hope this helps

 

[BUCK]

MANY Threads on this - your POS Water to Oil Cooler is crushing & letting the Flat Oil Filter Gasket "spit" out of the gap.

MANY Threads on this - Use the Mitsu Oil Filter with the T shaped Gasket until you delete the Water Cooler, the T shaped gasket is less prone to "spit" than the Flat gaskets on virtually all other Oil Filters.

MANY Threads & VFAQ on this - Overtightening the Filter will crush the innards of the Cooler & contaminate your Oil & Antifreeze.

Here's a recent Thread of many out there that has a fix in it...

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128844&highlight=filter

 

[snailpower]

thank you for your help, i'll start useing mitsu oil filters only.

 

[UndergroundR32]

I've had the same problem. I simply torqued the oil filter housing/oil cooler to 35 ft/lbs before tightening an oil filter onto it. I tighted the filter on quite solidly, also.

 

[BUCK]

Your welcome - Just please get a plan together to get rid of that Water to Oil Cooler - It will DEFINITELY screw you soon one way or the other - that is Oil LOSS or Oil contamination with Antifreeze - this is well documented.

thank you for your help, i'll start using mitsu oil filters only.

 

[BUCK]

UndergroundR32 - What part about this VFAQ didn't you understand?

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

I tighted the filter on quite solidly, also.