fortee5acp
Registered User
Since buying my car last year I have had 6 oil changes done. Due to time restrictions I have been bringing it to a local "Grease Monkey's", they are fairly priced and it saves me the ruts I dig in my dirt driveway trying to get my car up the ramps. Well to get to the point car was 1000miles overdue for the last change, and I've developed quite an oil leak, leaving large puddles lately at work, home, church whereever I parked and the oil low light has been coming on frequently. I probably put 4qts in over the last two weeks, and I am thinking the worse, hole in oil pan or bad gasket in oil pan. Today I finally got a chance to put it up on the ramps(two fresh ruts in driveway ) and found my oil filter cracked and leaking. So I am thinking great, motor mounts are now totally shot. There isn't a lot of room between filter and crossmember anyway but after getting a new filter and going to remove old one I found it not even hand tight!!! Does anyone know how much clearance should be between the filter and crossmember of the k frame.I am hoping the filter not being all the way on is what contributed to the crack. I know with almost 160K miles my mounts are probably worn out but am hoping to go w/o changing them until I pull motor for a rebuild or replacement which is still a ways off(two months at least)