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    ok 07 lightning, oil filter keeps blowing out its Oil seal. Im guessing its building up pressure due to a restriction. Anyone know the oil flow on these things Or know where the problem might be?

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    Are you applying a little oil around the oring before you install it, or is it getting over torqued? If the oring is dry it will bind and catch and bend out of shape before it seals, and same for too much torque.
    or check the crankcase ventilation maybe.

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    first oil filter been on there fine for a couple thousand miles, replaced it. Got 15 feet blew out again. Pretty sure its not a filter installation issue

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    Part it out hahahah

    Look in the manual for the flow chart.

    Assuming you have done this already... I'd pull the breathers PVC tube and see if there's pressure coming out of them (unplug the fuel pump so it won't run or pump fuel in cylinders, just crank)

    *** I'd guess the oil cooler has a blockage. But idk why or how that's possible. If it's in the engine tunnels that is a bummer.

    has it blown multiple filters out?


    - Random thoughts so that might be confusing-

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    I doubt that a oil galley got clogged (super,super, rare) exactly at the same time you replaced the filter. The odds would be astronomical.

    I would first install a new filter of a different brand, it lets you make sure the old o-ring isn't stuck to the block and eliminates the bad filter/bad filter batch option.

    Checking the crankcase vent is a good idea too.

    If all that fails, I look at the oil pump bypass ball and spring.

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    Its actually a friends bike. I know the filter has been replaced multiple times its not that. Shes also on the other coast from me. I had her drain the oil, shows signs of a lot of metal. So next having her pull the oil pump to inspect the drive gears, maybe sent some chunks into the engine and clogged it up. Supposedly a friend tried putting air through the cooler hoses and no flow. Im not there to verify this, and trying to explain through to the 3rd or 4th person is difficult.

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    I remember this old Eskimo I knew took his Buell into a shop. While he was waiting for it, he went next door and got some ice cream. It was a hot day so he had to eat it fast, but when he went back to the shop the mechanic said it looked like he blew a seal.

    "Na" he replied, "It's just vanilla ice cream".

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    Where on the east coast?

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    lol....just remember that a blown seal is a happy seal. :D

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    hey, wait a minute.

    Shes also on the other coast from me.
    who's 'she' and where on the other coast?

    Don't forget pic's or it didn't happen :D



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