I have seen some cheaper oil filters that do not get enough thread
engagement. Always make sure they spin on "far enough".

Jason
Uberbus

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Tom Hargrave <thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote:

> Did you over tighten the filter and damage the threads?
>
> I'm an old airhead guy and those engines have a oil pressure relief valve.
> I'm assuming the wasser bus engine also has one since it shares the same
> lineage? If so then your oil pressure could not have been too high unless
> the pressure relief valve stuck. You need to have the valve checked.
>
> Also, WIX is an excellent filter. The oil filter threads were probably
> damaged when it was blown off, or when/if you over tightened the filter.
>
> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> Of Rocket J Squirrel
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 6:01 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Dodged a bullet -- blowed the oil filter right off
>
> Okay, so it's my fault, but I think I lucked out.
>
> As temperatures drop down the freezing, and below, I change my engine oil
> to 10-40, a thinner grade. But this winter I got lazy. I admit it, I got
> lazy.
>
> Well, one cold morning last week I started the van and trundled down the
> street to go downtown, and was about a 1/2 mile from home when I noticed
> that the idiot light for the oil pressure was lit. And the aftermarket oil
> pressure gauge I installed a few years ago was at zero. They don't share
> the same sender or anything so I knew it was serious.
>
> I pulled off the main road and got out and looked behind the van and sure
> enough, a trail of oil behind me leading up to a small puddle under the
> engine.
>
> Triple-A flatbedded the van to Gary's Ole Volks Home here in Bend, and
> after an hour he called me and said that the oil filter had plain blowed
> off.
>
> So here's what happened: at these low temperatures, I reckon that the
> thicker summer oil was as thick as pine sap -- maybe amber -- resulting in
> very high oil pressure.
>
> The oil filter was not the stock one that I use. I installed a tencentlife
> oil cooler kit a few years ago, and it uses a banjo fitting that goes
> between the filter and the engine for oil send and receive (thermostat in
> there, too). The stock filter is too long to fit and he recommends a Bosch
> 3300, which I have been using.
>
> But the last time I replaced the filter, when I switched from winter to
> summer oil, the auto parts store was out of stock on the Bosch, and they
> offered the Wix. I never heard of Wix, but the guy said it was a good
> brand, so hey.
>
> Well, the mechanic was consternated by the shorter filter, said it was the
> wrong one, and that the threads looked like pipe threads. I picked up a new
> Bosch on my way over and took at look at the Wix, comparing it to the
> Bosch, and the threads in the Wix looked pretty poor.
>
> So I think I lucked out here. That high oil pressure was gonna blow out
> something, I'm just glad that it was a $6 oil filter. Otherwise, $75 for
> the work, nothing (other than subscription to Triple-A) for the tow. It
> could have been a lot worse.
>
> Engine sounds fine, I hope no damage was done.
>
> And what's the lesson, kids? Don't skip maintenance. And distrust Wix
> filters.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
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