<VV> Oil FIlter leaks

Wed Jun 1 20:38:10 EDT 2011

Previously, after leaving an outer oil filter gasket in the housing (thus I had two gaskets) and getting a fur piece down the road before it leaked, one would think I would be more observant with oil filters.  Travel buddy Frank DuVal found the problem after I lost about three quarts of oil.

The new problem:  I changed the oil and filter on my Lakewood before attending the Vair Fair.  There did not seem to be any leaks.  I pulled it back into the garage and let it run a while.  Later, I stepped in an oil puddle.  After hopping around on one foot, I found the leak was from the filter of course.  I tightened it but it still leaked.  I tried two more new filters, all three were from a Corvair vendor and made in Taiwan.  Still leaked.  I pulled the old filter out of the baggie and removed the outer gasket.  I put the gasket in the housing and then replaced the filter.  After running it a while I detected a small leak.  Gave the bolt a quarter turn and no more leaks.  So what is the solution?  Insure the rubber gasket is in the groves of the oil filter housing (or whatever the technical term may be). Do not spin the filter.
Ray Davis
Hartwood Virginia

> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:00:44 -0600
> From: shortle556 at earthlink.net
> To: hmlinc at sbcglobal.net; wfcc at mediacombb.net; N2VZD at aol.com
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> Subject: Re: <VV> unusual? failure? something to watch for long CORVAIR related story
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> That is pretty darn scary in the sense it can take an engine out. I wonder if they have any plans of recalling these filters as I have been hearing more of them failing. I for one have purchased some of these filters and actually have them on my wagon at this time. 
> Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301
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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: J R Read <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
> >Sent: Jun 1, 2011 2:33 PM
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> >Subject: Re: <VV> unusual? failure? something to watch for long CORVAIR related story
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> >It happens from time to time. All you have to do is look at the top of each 
> >filter after you remove it to be sure nothing got left behind.
> >Later, JR
> >
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> >Subject: Re: <VV> unusual? failure? something to watch for long CORVAIR 
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> >
> >>I wasn't going to mention this but I had the same thing happen -it was a 
> >>filter that was made in Tiawan and sold through a northern U.S. parts 
> >>vendor. I recently had a Harmonic balancer come apart and replaced it-when 
> >>I was under the car I looked up where the oil filter bolts on and that 
> >>metal plate and the outer gasket from the oil filter were still on there. 
> >>If I hadn't been under the car I couldn't have seen them and it brobably 
> >>would have made one hell of a mess when I put a new filter on and it 
> >>wouldn't seal....
> >> I also has one of these same filters start to leak a few months after 
> >> installation-appeared to be from the top seam.
> >>
> >> Ed Lindsay
> >>
> >> West Florida Corvair Club
> >> 66 A/C Corsa
> >> UltraVans 338/407
> >> 66 Crown 283
> >> Minnie Moore
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: N2VZD at aol.com
> >> <SNIP> my findings are: the oil
> >> filter has a metal gasket retainer plate with holes in it matching the 
> >> holes in
> >> the top of the filter pressed on. this plate spun a little , blocking the
> >> holes .so i THINK the blockage caused the oil pump to work very hard
> >> pumping thru the bypass valves , showing real shiny wear on the 
> >> distributor
> >> gear? due to the fact that i paint my oil filters a semi black , and i 
> >> use 2
> >> sources of filters , i am not sure of the brand. not sure how that plate
> >> could spin , unless (i doubt it but) i spun it when installing it.
> >> this is one of several motors i built this year , but the only one i heard
> >> this type of noise in.
> >> now i may look at filters on the rest of my stuff.... the trick here is
> >> that the pressure indicated on my test adaptabolt oil gauge i use on all 
> >> of my
> >> motors for the first few hours of running was perfectly normal.
> >> i put a picture of the filter in the last issue of our newsletter.
> >> my final words are: try not to spin the filter , just the bolt, when you
> >> install it.
> >> regards, Tim Colson i hope the picture works
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