Lost All Oil This Afternoon

[94pathfinder]

so while driving on the high way at speed today, my exhaust suddenly went blue from an oil leak on the exhaust crossover pipe.

 

upon pulling off of the road safely i got out of my pathfinder, and looked under it, and oil is just pouring out of the engine bay.

 

Upon further investigation i noticed while looking at the under carraige, only the passenger side of the engine was oil covered, from the filter level down. and the bottom of the filter had a nice coating of oil on it.

 

now i grabbed the oil filter while waiting for a tow truck, and it was tight, but, isn't there a plate the oil filter screws onto that bolts onto the side of the motor, and also the filter i got from napa, the o-ring on the filter base it self, i noticed was about the size of a 50 cent peice, when the fram i took off had an o-ring all the way around the base of the filter, that was pretty much the circumference of the filter.

 

Any ideas? or suggestions of what to check?

 

 

Thank you so much,

 

John Dreiling

[nunya]

Pu ta good filter on it and some fresh oil, make sure the gasket is off the block from the old filter, fire it up and take a peek

[morpheus]

make sure you didn't double gasket the oil filter either (old gasket from old oil filter stuck to engine)

[ac92pathfinder]

make sure you didn't double gasket the oil filter either (old gasket from old oil filter stuck to engine)

thats happened to me. never happened again i make sure now.

[SC88Pathy]

If the filter you got didn't have the gasket around the edge you probably got the wrong filter

 

Did you get a Napa Gold, or did you get their cheapo filter?

[94pathfinder]

If the filter you got didn't have the gasket around the edge you probably got the wrong filter

 

Did you get a Napa Gold, or did you get their cheapo filter?

 

i actually did get a napa gold filter, i usually always put fram oil filters on it, never had a problem with them.

[Dowser]

My guess is also a doubled up Gasket. sometimes when you take the old filter off the gasket sticks to the block and you don't notice it. then you screw the new one on and you have the 2 gaskets on top of each other. when enough heat and pressure builds up you'll get a blow up of oil between the gaskets. Its a nasty NASTY mess to clean up on a n new vehicle I can tell you that. haha

[nismothunder]

I say you double gasketed or got a cheapy,the filter should go all the way around,also,did you lube the gasket on the new filter or just screwed it on with a dry gasket?

[ac92pathfinder]

let us know what the issue is. even is it was a mistake you did im sure we can all learn . who knows

[ac92pathfinder]

I say you double gasketed or got a cheapy,the filter should go all the way around,also,did you lube the gasket on the new filter or just screwed it on with a dry gasket?

i used cheapy filters and never had issues. i used walmart supertech, kmart cheapy filter not sure what brand it was and we used fram for years and never had issues. as for the gasket on the new filter always lube it. wont hurt to stick your finger in one of the new qt bottles.

[nunya]

What's wrong with cheapies? Carquest redbox brings the filtration of my lubrication to satisification! Yea and take the 3 seconds to give a little dab to the gasket

[94pathfinder]

i've always used frams, and always will use frams, but on a side note, the motor is toast. tried everything i could, still pours oil out of the engine when started, something is f-ed up

[ac92pathfinder]

might be the rear main seal. that sucks man. keep us posted.

[94pathfinder]

rear main seal is brand new less than 2 weeks old.

[MY1PATH]

did the oil ps sensor pop?

[adamzan]

Oil pan gasket? You recently did your tranny right? I remember reading somewhere that if the motor is not supported that it could damage the oil pan or something.

[nunya]

What about that sensor by the filter? It broke off or maby leaking out the threads of it?

 

 

 

note... I REALLY need to fix that wire for mine from breaking it during the starter swap...

[ac92pathfinder]

keep looking clean the area. put oil and start the car see where its commin from.

[jj big shoe]

Like MY1PATH and nunya said, that's what my money is on. Is your motor toast because of the unknown oil leak or did it run w/o oil too long? I hope you caught it in time, bud.

[ac92pathfinder]

i hope it aint toast.

[Precise1]

i've always used frams, and always will use frams, but on a side note, the motor is toast. tried everything i could, still pours oil out of the engine when started, something is f-ed up

As was said, find the source of the leak. If it is that bad, it should be easy...

 

B

[ac92pathfinder]

dont give up. either that have it towed to a trusty shop and have them find it.

[pulxar]

I had a Grand Am when I was in high school that did almost the same thing, lost all the oil in very short order. It was a PITA to track down with the oil all over the engine (and everything else), but the culprit was the oil pressure sender. I'd take a good look at it on your rig, I was shocked at how much oil can get through the thing when it failed.

[MY1PATH]

did the oil ps sensor pop?

 

 

I had a Grand Am when I was in high school that did almost the same thing, lost all the oil in very short order. It was a PITA to track down with the oil all over the engine (and everything else), but the culprit was the oil pressure sender. I'd take a good look at it on your rig, I was shocked at how much oil can get through the thing when it failed.

 

MY sensor the seal for the plastic plug got weak with age and it was leakin out arround there. any worse and the plastic may have been pushed out allowing a nice little jet for 10-60psi of oill to shoot out from.

its that flower shaped plug(12 point wrench) above the oil filter. and it was only a few bucks to replace

[94pathfinder]

so i finally got a day off, and i'll look farther into this today, i got a new oil pressure sensor, and am going to put that in, and we'll go from there.