My 03 taurus sems to leak around the oil filter. The filter seems to back off after several drive cycles. The worst leak occurs on a cold start up while backing out of driveway. The oil will sometimes come out in spurts. I just changed the oil and I tightend filter with a oil filter wrench. I still have some drops oil on the drivway but not much oil residue on the bottom of the engine. I can also can pickup oil on my finger when rubbing my finger around oil filter sill. Do you hav any ideas? thanks.
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remove the filter immediately and check and see if you left the old o ring from the old filter on the housing. if not, replace the filter with new one before you have a catastrophic failure.
Roy
This keeps happening with my Taurus. Cannot get a filter to seat correctly. Old print is not in there. help!