sommerfliesby
New member
I'm changing the oil on my Vector, and found an orange O-ring under the sled right after I started it. Nothing leaked, but I panicked and figured it was from the threaded part by the filter, so I removed the filter quickly, tossed the ring in, retightened the filter, and fired it up. The thing leaked like a sieve. Where might this oring have come from...or am I completely screwing this up somehow? Thanks
mike
mike
sommerfliesby
New member
Never mind! I figggured it out...it was the o-ring from the dipstick that I had dropped! Thought it would have been strange the other way! Oh well, won't make that mistake again! There's bound to be others, tho.
horkn
New member
sommerfliesby said:
one quick way to never have an issue like this again o any 4 stroke motor witha filter is to verify the O ring/ gasket from the old filter is on the old filter when you take it off the motor. then verify there is an o ring/ gasket on the new filter. I verify this when I use oil to lube the new gasket up.
that way you never run into this issue again
unless you get a gasket on a new filter that fails upon startup, which has happened to a buddy of mine who's dad used to own an oil change shop. but that was one time in how many thousands of oil changes....I personally have never seen it happen.