mard

hello i'm new here i been browsing around to see if anyones else had a similar problem but no luck so i registered.. i have a 97 ford mustang gt 4.6 and a few days ago i got a really bad oil leak... i only noticed it when i got back home from work later on that day. with tracks of oil.. when i got home i checked my oil right away and had nothing on the dipstick so i put oil in it.. it took 4 quarts..i sure hope i didn't damage the engine all to much.. i can still get it to start easly but when it does start.. it starts squirting oil out of this little hole a few inches away from my oil filter... how it got there i have no clue.. it seems like this piece is bolted onto the engine and the oil filter is screwed onto that if so i will be able to replace if it not then i dunno what to do.. maybe some jb weld? i dunno a whole lot about cars but i'm learning. please help me out if you can thanks..

JC316

Holy crap, never seen that one before. That is the oil filter adapter and it is replaceable. Quick steel or JB weld MIGHT hold, but that is under a shi* ton of pressure. I doubt you killed the engine.

Case's97GT

ditto on that, just need to replace that adapter.

SilvrStang

Thats odd that there is a hole there. Who replaced your oil last? Hmm. Replace the oil adapter . Go to junkyard and pull one off slap a new gasket on it and call it a day! Its held on by 3 13 mm bolts I believe.

NASTY03GT

You should be fine. Replace that adapter asap!!

0949er

try jb weld man.... just make sure to clean ALL the oil off around the small hole, use brake parts cleaner or whatever to make sure it is 100 % clean.

On a cold start you might run 70-80 psi, which isn't that high. ( I wana say that jb weld claims to hold up to 1000 PSI).

I have had jb weld plugging a hole in my AC line all summer. and by hole I mean a 3 cm gash. Not the easiest of patches. Works fine. I would try that first, and if not, you are only out ~$5 dollars (plus like $2.50 for brake parts cleaner to clean the dirt/oil)

Fox466

And if it doesn't hold he's out an engine? With my luck no way I would chance it.


Replace the adapter dude. Better safe than sorry...

cliffyk

Depending on how it formed (I am guessing a porous/bad spot in the casting) there may be enough "meat" to drill and tap the hole for a 1/8" NPT plug (use loctite when installing the plug of course).

However since you'd have to remove the adapter anyway to do this properly, I'd go with the junk yard option first...

uberstang1

For some reason it almost looks like a weep hole.

cliffyk

That was a thought I had also, it does look machined doesn't it?