so i turn my car on, 2 secons later i hear a little fart, and oil is leaking from my oil filter, take it off, the gasket got blown off, get a new filter, does the same thing. Any ideas as to why its poppin the gasket? almost seems like the oil is going into the filter, and not out. Have brand new oil cooler and both filters were brand new. It is a freshly built h22a.

 

bump, anyone got suggestions as to what it could be?

 

actually i had a similar thing happen i had to take off all the junk under the car where tha oil filter belong and the little o ring got a crack in it so oil just leaked everywhere

 

hmm this is weird, did you check for cracks?

 

bump for my boys motor

 

bump, any ideas??

 

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Sounds like you're way over-pressurized. Might want to look into your relief valve, # 11 & 12 below. Running an aftermarket pressure gauge should tell you pretty quick too.

 

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1) What brand oil filter?

2) How much did you tighten the filter?

3) Hook up a oil pressure gauge to find out where you're at.

 

when you take the filter off... make sure there isn't an old gasket stuck to the housing. it may just be and old one that melted on a little so when you put the new filter on, there's two gaskets (which is a bad thing)

thats my best guess

 

first one was a mobil one, hand tight, second was a fram, very hand tight. No there is no gasket material left, its a brand new oil cooler as well

 

bumpidy bump bump bump

 

i got dyno time monday the 18th and i need to fix this problem

 

just throwing out ideas here but did you oil the gasket before you screwed it on? perhaps it got kinked?

 

yes i oiled the gasket. anyone know how much pressure it would take to blow that gasket?

 

alright i may have solved it, but i need to take the cooler off to be sure and try it once more. but the JDM and USDM oil coolers are not the same.

 

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how exactly might that be?

 

on the back of the cooler, jdm has one big opening for the oil to flow back in, usdm has 5 small ones.

 

just to let u know, i am using the correct oil filter

 

anyone know if there is a stock sensor that would turn the car off if oil pressure reaches a certain level? (over 100psi) i finally hooked my gauge up and that **** is maxin out way past 100

 

still not working, im now using the jdm oil cooler, honda filter, and have my oil pressure gauge hooked up. The gasket isnt blowing out anymore (cause of the way the honda filter is set up compared to the others) but my oil psi maxs out my gauge and then car stalls after 1 second of idle. I am stumped

 

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The oil pump has a pressue bypass in it. I would check that this is not jammed, or put in wrong, etc. (as Lewdin' Incognito suggested above). Good luck.

 

yea that was the problem, the plunger on the oil pressure regulator was stuck. lucky me my engine builder was nice enough to come out and fix it.