3rdRGR
Well-Known Member
For me it's been Castrol EDGE Extended Performance in 5W-30 and 1 bottle of Ceratec. So far so good.
BUT - I had a little interesting situation. I change the oil in my Mustang and prior to my wife getting a new RDX, the oil in her Murano. Welp at some point, in my drain pan I found this O-Ring. Maybe an 1 1/4 in diameter. But it was AFTER I had done an oil change (can't remember which vehicle). So everything worked, no leaks or lights coming on in either vehicle. So of course I put the O-Ring in a box on the shelf and there it sits for a couple changes in my Mustang, but this time, I remembered it, and when I had my filter off in the Mustang, I feel this "ditch" that feels like a place where an O-Ring would go just outside of where the male threads come out of the car where the oil filter goes. So I take this O-Ring and it's larger than the threaded piece so it's easy to slide over it and lo and behold it fits PERFECTLY in that ditch. I mean like it was MEANT to go there. Assuming that was it, and a little concerned I'd gone a 15K miles without it, I finish up and all seems good to go. No leaks, no lights, Oil Pressure at 19 psi once it settles into an idle and runs fine.
Still feeling a little uneasy, I call the Ford dealer and go to Service, then Parts Dept. who then talked to a tech. They sent me some pictures which shows the ditch, but zero call outs for an O-Ring... So... oh shiznit!!! I made sure that it was just a recessed area and that no fluid flow goes into or out of that ditch area and the answer was no and that it was "probably" good if I wasn't getting any leaks or lights and everything was running fine. So embarrassingly I come to you fine folks here.
A) Are they wrong and there is an O-Ring that goes in there?
B) Would you be so concerned that you would dump 10 quarts of oil, pull off the filter, dig out the O-Ring? Or just call it good as sealed is sealed on the outside, no disruption of oil flow and just pull it out next oil change?
BUT - I had a little interesting situation. I change the oil in my Mustang and prior to my wife getting a new RDX, the oil in her Murano. Welp at some point, in my drain pan I found this O-Ring. Maybe an 1 1/4 in diameter. But it was AFTER I had done an oil change (can't remember which vehicle). So everything worked, no leaks or lights coming on in either vehicle. So of course I put the O-Ring in a box on the shelf and there it sits for a couple changes in my Mustang, but this time, I remembered it, and when I had my filter off in the Mustang, I feel this "ditch" that feels like a place where an O-Ring would go just outside of where the male threads come out of the car where the oil filter goes. So I take this O-Ring and it's larger than the threaded piece so it's easy to slide over it and lo and behold it fits PERFECTLY in that ditch. I mean like it was MEANT to go there. Assuming that was it, and a little concerned I'd gone a 15K miles without it, I finish up and all seems good to go. No leaks, no lights, Oil Pressure at 19 psi once it settles into an idle and runs fine.
Still feeling a little uneasy, I call the Ford dealer and go to Service, then Parts Dept. who then talked to a tech. They sent me some pictures which shows the ditch, but zero call outs for an O-Ring... So... oh shiznit!!! I made sure that it was just a recessed area and that no fluid flow goes into or out of that ditch area and the answer was no and that it was "probably" good if I wasn't getting any leaks or lights and everything was running fine. So embarrassingly I come to you fine folks here.
A) Are they wrong and there is an O-Ring that goes in there?
B) Would you be so concerned that you would dump 10 quarts of oil, pull off the filter, dig out the O-Ring? Or just call it good as sealed is sealed on the outside, no disruption of oil flow and just pull it out next oil change?
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