SS MAYFLOAT
Admiral
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- May 17, 2001
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I was to go on a job this morning to trim a few trees. Since I had surgery this week I'm unable to. So, I felt a little reluctant to let my son in law go do the job himself with his son, but money is money and we all need it.
He showed up this morning to get the bucket truck, shared a cup of coffee while the diesel dog was warming up. He goes out to the truck to find a very large puddle of oil on the ground. He crawled under and found that the oil was running down the sides of the oil filter. He put a filter wrench on it to tighten, but was unable to budge it.
I know of cases where salt has rusted the outer shell of the filter causing them to leak, but this one has no rust on it at all. Being covered with diesel sludge has prevented any road salt from attacking the shell. I'm sure changing it out will fix the problem, but I'm curious of why it is leaking. Son in law said it looked as if the shell has came loose from the rolled edge from the threaded flange that goes to the engine block. It hasn't been started for awhile since we had below 0 temps. Could the extreme range of temp change cause that rolled bead connecting the shell to the flange to fail?
BTW, this in on a Ford 7.3 International IDI non-turbo engine.
Thanks..........SS
He showed up this morning to get the bucket truck, shared a cup of coffee while the diesel dog was warming up. He goes out to the truck to find a very large puddle of oil on the ground. He crawled under and found that the oil was running down the sides of the oil filter. He put a filter wrench on it to tighten, but was unable to budge it.
I know of cases where salt has rusted the outer shell of the filter causing them to leak, but this one has no rust on it at all. Being covered with diesel sludge has prevented any road salt from attacking the shell. I'm sure changing it out will fix the problem, but I'm curious of why it is leaking. Son in law said it looked as if the shell has came loose from the rolled edge from the threaded flange that goes to the engine block. It hasn't been started for awhile since we had below 0 temps. Could the extreme range of temp change cause that rolled bead connecting the shell to the flange to fail?
BTW, this in on a Ford 7.3 International IDI non-turbo engine.
Thanks..........SS