hgeranium

@87Warrior

Occasionally I will get an email for specifically a comment that has quoted something of mine, but not all of them. If I get five replies in a day, I may only get a notification for one for none of them. I also don’t get notifications at all from other people‘s replies to my subscribed threads (aka anything that I post) anymore. This used to not be the case but it’s become more common in the past month or so. It’s relatively inconsequential but it does cause me to miss replies on occasion. my notification settings are unchanged and correct for what I want. Anyone else having this issue?

I will also report back tomorrow or Wednesday because I plan on getting it done tomorrow evening. Good luck on your recovery and your eventual OFA repair!

Yep, that’s not happening lol. At least not without the help of somebody more experienced

do you have issues with oil spraying from that area after driving it? Or does it just drip? The entire area of the engine and bay surrounding the oil filter has a nice film of oil and gunk so it would be nice to have somebody to confirm my symptoms so I can feel more confident about the OFA being my main issue.

I am in the same boat as you with the RMS! Here’s hoping you won’t have to do it. I’m just going to do the OFA o rings and another VCG later on and just pretend like everything is fine. I don’t feel like doing a RMS in my apartment parking lot by myself for the first time with hand tools would be much fun

Thanks for the help

Ah ok, I thought you meant it would just leak in general lol. That is true but it would be nice not to have to worry about the adapter seals going out. Although at almost 190,000 miles, I would probably never need to put in a new set of O-rings again lol

Not to worry. I haven't forgotten about my little order. Money has just been so tight lately, but I'm getting more hours at work again so possibly I can scrounge my pennies and pick it up. I know they're such a hot item for you lol

The thread I linked mentions a specific non-stock Bosch filter that is supposedly the correct size to screw on and not have clearance issues. How come oil would drip down the side of the block? Because the mating surface isn't meant for the filter?

Has anyone had experience with doing away with the oil filter adapter housing in its entirety? This would allow you to eliminate the issues with the adapter gaskets leaking. I've read a few things about just putting that nipple that the oil filter mounts onto directly onto the block and the oil filter fits perfectly on the machined surface. Does this reliably work? any downsides? Why would AMC put an adapter housing if it could very easily run without one? Here is one of the threads I found: https://www.jeepforum.com/threads/oil-pressure-sending-unit-jeep-4-0-into-1988-wrangler.4379423/

Bosch fogs are quite small....

Sorry didn't see this, it was on the second page of the thread. Good luck to you! I would've taken the chance but with this being my daily I couldn't risk leaving my truck out of commission for more than a day.

Yeah that's the fel pro kit that people often say is missing a gasket of a particular size, so I'm playing it super safe by just buying the exact gaskets I need by the SAE size. Some people say it works OK but FWIW I only see 91+ people saying it works on the reviews. Every Renix person that left a review said that it was missing something. Edit (again): When I clicked on the link ,I was on my phone and thought that the kit you linked was the singular large gasket ES70301 and not the full 5 piece kit, so that's my mistake

87-90 Renix Model O-rings 0.799 x 0.103 AS568 size -117 1.296 x 0.139 AS568 size -219 2.484 x 0.139 AS568 size –230 Dealer Part Numbers for Renix. Sold individually: 33002970, 33002971, 33002972 Renix kit from Crown Automotive-33002970K 91-01 HO Model Orings 0.676 x 0.070 AS568 size -017 0.859 x 0.139 AS568 size -212 2.484 x 0.139 AS568 size -230 From Don himself. Would I ended up doing was buying that fel pro gasket that you found and then an o ring assortment kit that contained both an AS568 117 and 219, for about $13. The big fel pro one is the AS568 230 which is almost impossible to buy individually or as part of an assortment kit. All of the kits that I found stop at 226. 230 is just an uncommonly large size I suppose Edit: sorry for replying three separate times. I knew I could answer the first question and then after a little bit realized I can answer the other one, and then the third question you had lol.

Also keep in mind that is just one of three o rings necessary to fully replace them on the OFA. There’s still a medium and a small one that go on that shaft that screws into the block

Yes that one will fit. That’s the biggest O ring out of three. I cross referenced the part number and it matches up with OEM

Yep that’s a big if for sure. I mean, it has to be the adapter with how the oil spray is positioned. I’ve never heard of a valve cover gasket causing spray of the volume I’m seeing (save for a total catastrophic failure, which is not the case) and it’s almost entirely localized around the area of the oil filter, including the AC hoses around it, the expansion tank, and the side of the distributor cap that’s facing it.

I do have it venting, it’s just not going through the air box to stop it from soaking my air filter for the meantime until I have the time and tools to redo the valve cover gasket and do the valve cover mod at the same time. Like I said before, I’ve had this issue since I got the truck, even when the original CCV hose was installed. The reason I took it off was that the grommet was so deteriorated that it was letting a lot of oil out onto the valve cover. I had a spare PCV grommet so I just stuck that on there with an old PCV hose and then just routed it towards the ground. I know the diameter of that hose is quite a bit smaller than the CCV hose but I havent seen anything occur as a result that wasn’t already happening before so I think, while it certainly isn’t helping, it’s likely not the main culprit. The only reason I’ve put off just putting on the CCV it’s that I would have to buy an entire new vacuum harness just to break off the hose that I need. I have an HO air box and a capped EGR so my vac routing is very simplified.

Awesome. I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to get a torx to fit on that bolt with a ratchet to go with it if that's the case. Is it possible that I have just a regular hexagonal bolt head? I felt all over the bolt itself earlier to try to see if it was a torx or allen or something but I didn't feel any divot on it. The face of it was smooth. But the bolt itself was definitely hexagonal and I really feel like I can get a wrench on it. The video that I linked showed his being a 3/4" that he got off with a wrench but of course it was an HO. There is a tooooon of gunk all over that area so it's totally possible that it fully filled in the hole where a torx or allen head would be. And I've heard those horrible things about trying to breaking the bolt loose. I also read about a tip to do the job not long after driving it around so the heat of the engine helps loosen things up.

What other bolts do you have to remove? I was under the impression that it was just the one big bolt underneath the oil filter, but maybe that’s specifically for an HO

I’ve decided to scrap my old thread and make a new one because it was so disorganized and nobody cares to hear about general maintenance. I probably won’t be posting much on this because I don’t have the skill (or time) (or money)to do anything super interesting but I suppose I’ll log any worthy repairs that I do. I daily drive it so I’m mostly just interested on keeping it in working order. Currently on the chopping block is to get my oil filter adapter gaskets changed to hopefully quell the major oil leak I’m experiencing. Other than than, I have the things to get my antenna wire hole all sealed up again and eliminate my leaky floors.

I ended up going with a Fel-pro 70301 for the big one. It’s basically impossible to find an AS568 230 o-ring in a kit (that isn’t $100+), so I don’t have a choice but to buy it individually. Less than $4 at autozone so not terrible. I’ve successfully cross-referenced the part number of it with the Mopar one so it’s 100% going to fit For the other two, I was able to find an o-ring kit that had both a 117 and 219. It was really hard to find one that had both, most of them would either stop right at 116 or 218. Here it is: https://a.co/d/01XeQ4rb This was the cheapest one I could find because I do not have the money to be spending on the truck right now. Hopefully this solves my oil issue !

For any future viewers of this thread

The bulk of the leak as seen on the ground is definitely coming from the area of the oil filter. Of course it’s not leaking now that it’s idling but I’m guessing it starts to spray out under pressure and continued driving The side of the engine close to the oil filter and to the left of the dizzy is soaked and everything to the right of the dizzy is dry. So that also tracks that oil is spraying from the filter and getting blocked by the dizzy from splashing further to the front of the engine. Although oil is certainly seeping from the rear quarter of the VCG, I’m thinking that there’s no way it’s enough to do what the oil filter seems to be capable of. I guess regardless it would be good practice to change the adapter considering I’ve never done it