Oil Change Gone Bad

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skydude

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Last year had a similar situation that happened to me... I do my own oil change. After I changed the oil and filter I started the engine and noticed oil spilling out under the car.. I shut the engine down and I figure I dropped 5qts of oil..after I cleaned up the whole I started to look for the cause and I found that when I removed the oil filter, the oil filter gasket/o-ring peeled off from the filter and was stuck against the block.. I didnt see that when I installed the other filter ...the oil leaked out between the 2 gaskets....
aprox 3 month later I had cam phaser failure... not sure if that was related to the incident... One thing I learned, no matter how manytimes Ive changed my oil... dont rush. Btw my 2011 had 135000 miles when this happened. Hopefully you dont have the same outcome as I did...
 
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My Father taught me to lubricate the gasket ...there was no gasket on the filter so had the person tried it there would be no problem
 

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This exactly why I do my own changes. Had it happen to a brother in law and cost him his engine. When I pull the filter I automatically check for the quad ring and always lube the new one with clean oil. It doesnt take long to do the change especially if you remove the fill cap. Added plus, I know what oil and how much I put in. You may not be getting the oil you think you got. Blackstone is a good lab. I use them for testing the oil on my bikes. Occasionally I send one in from the trucks. Very informative. In the case of one of my vehicles, I identified a abnormal wear issue because of the reports history and changed out a failed cam bearing in one of the bikes. But you need a starting point for that to work. As to how much oil you lost, a little spreads a long way. I dont know if loss of oil/low oil pressure will throw a scan code. If so, you may be able to retrieve it. That would tell you a lot right there. Ad for the felt cover, I dont remove mine. I use one of those shapable funnels and a piece of pig mat as insurance. When done, I use the pig mat as a wipe on the filter and drain plug and pan. Easy peasy. Remember not to over tighten the filter and plug. Snug and a bit more, thats it.

Good luck. Every noise you hear is going to bring on oil shop change ptsd.
 

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Loss of oil pressure is certainly not a good thing. Amazing that the tech didn’t check for the gasket nor feel that it didn’t spin down right, nor see the quickly spreading oil puddle under the car, nor see that the oil pressure light didn’t go off before driving out of the bay. Quadruple failure!
If you had bearing damage, an oil analysis might find particles in the oil. It’s a mail-off thing, not sure how good they are.
 

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You can get a kit from Blackstone Lab to pump oil from your dipstick tube for testing. Drive the car for a few hundred miles and perform an oil analysis. This will indicate if excessive metals are present in the oil.
 

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I don't think there is anyway to know short of getting the oil drained and sent for testing by a lab like Blackstone. Excessive wear may show up as metals in the test. The shop likely fixed the leak and topped off, rather than draining. You could purchase a warranty for peace of mind...these engines are expensive to repair anyway.

Good point. These guys are penny pinchers, so they probably did just top it off. Heck, my local dealership put an old filter back on after fixing a leak at the oil pan because the truck was under warranty and they didn't want to spend the $2 on a filter. That said, I second the Blackstone recommendation. It's worth the ~$30. It takes about 2 weeks to get results right now.
 

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I would say you are good to go, so long as the engine never got to have aload on it. I did the same thing at the time my wifes new 05 expy gasket stayed on filter housing. Now has 204,000 miles still going strong. But document everything just to be safe Can not hurt. File with their ins.in case something goes south 6 months from now. If they say nothing will go wrong prove it, sign here more names and paper work the better. be a pain its your wallet that may be empty later
 

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Best reply here is post #2, your pictures show that the truck was moved a long way and if that was your truck that did all that, you will have problems. With that big of a leak your engine ran with no oil and turbo's do not do well without oil.
 

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I would say you are good to go, so long as the engine never got to have aload on it. I did the same thing at the time my wifes new 05 expy gasket stayed on filter housing. Now has 204,000 miles still going strong. But document everything just to be safe Can not hurt. File with their ins.in case something goes south 6 months from now. If they say nothing will go wrong prove it, sign here more names and paper work the better. be a pain its your wallet that may be empty later

Retired USPS in NJ ... I thought my wife might know you from work, but she said their NJ consultant is from TX. :D
 

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Yeah, its the Turbos that I am always warned about when it comes to Oiling and the Ecoboost engines.
 

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