Series 3 Oil filter assembly

Hi. I have oil leaking from the thread at the oil filter assembly head. The thread looks like it should have a pressure gauge pipe attached to it but there is no pressure gauge on my Landy



any thoughts ? Is there something missing from it ?

thanks

Looks like it has an auxiliary sender fitted at some stage.

You could unscrew the adapter and then fit the original sender in the hole.

I'm surprised oil isn't gushing out that hole though. So that's odd.

As above and the oil light sender is fubar no connection tag.

I wondered at that, is it camera angle? Is it bent and facing the camera? Or junk?

Looks like it's there, just bent toward the camera.

Yeh it’s bent so you can’t see it. That bit works, it’s just the other bit that’s puzzling me. The vehicle has never had an auxiliary oil pressure gauge and yet it has also never previously leaked from there. Suggests that either the unit is now damaged and leaking or previously when the engine ran, there was no oil pressure !

Yes, disconcerting. Unless it was capped off, and the cap came off. But, unless you've had the vehicle since new, you wouldn't know what has been done to the engine. It might not be the original filter housing, or even engine block!

Wildefalcon said:

Yes, disconcerting. Unless it was capped off, and the cap came off. But, unless you've had the vehicle since new, you wouldn't know what has been done to the engine. It might not be the original filter housing, or even engine block!

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That’s very true !

The threads look cleaner than the rest of the adaptor.

Is it possible that it was capped off and the cap vibrated loose until it fell off?

Webley1991 said:

The threads look cleaner than the rest of the adaptor.

Is it possible that it was capped off and the cap vibrated loose until it fell off?

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It is possible yes. I have loads of photos that I took since staring the resto though and they all look like this one so I don’t think it’s lost a cap recently