okay i have been noticing i have a leak in my oil filter. once i noticed it i changed the oil filter because i was thinking that the gasket on the filter was messed up. but it still continues to leak. i even checked if the gasket from the previous oil filter was there but it wasn't.

any ideas?

 

oil pressure sending unit.

 

i have no clue what that is. i'm still a newbie. i'm learning slowly. i haven't encounter this problem before.

 

check to make sure the oil filter has the oring...and also make sure that it doesn't have two orings...that happened to me once, the oring didn't come off when i took the filter off.

 

i already checked that. there isn't two cause i changed my oil filter and before i put it on i checked if it had the previous one.

 

ok. now how long has it been doing this? it could just be a bad filter, who knows.

 

i already changed my oil filter last week

 

what kind of filter are you using?

 

fram

 

what is the number? should be a ph3596a i think

 

yeah i guess. i dont know the number but i know for sure i got the right one

 

sounds like you messed up the threads possibly. oil pressure switch has tappered threads so...no seal.

 

i dont know. i dont know how i messed up the threads. i dont think i did.

 

you sure its on tight? maybe something got stuck in the threads too. if not the maybe you have a cracked block. lets hope not. lol.

 

i doubt that. i screwed that thing on real tight. but i checked the filter it doesn't have oil on it. i see a little puddle of oil under my oil filter on my block.

 

PH3593A lolz

 

i think he did a typo. there is no ph3596a. 6 is right above 3.

clean it all up and check to find where its coming from and report back with where and we will tell you how to fix. 123 go!

 

where is the oil sending unit?

 

 

ignore the adapter for the oil feed. looks like that only without that oil line. its the sensor right above the filter. should have a wire attached to it tho.

 

so if it was leaking from there, how would i fix it.

 

would i have to take off my intake manifold to get to it?

 

no you don't have to. just jack up your car.

 

would i have to buy a new oil pressure sending unit?

 

if the threats are messed up you might get away with re-threading it. if not you going to need a new one, and possibly re-threading the block also.