Oil filter plate gasket for a Mazdaspeed?
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I have an intermittent oil leak on my MSM, and it seems to be coming from the oil filter sandwich plate. It only leaks when it's cold and and after it's been sitting for a few days.
The car has 110k and sat for about a year before I bought it, so it seems reasonable that the sandwich plate seal is shot. Has anyone pulled one of these off before? It almost looks too easy... just one nut and 2 spring clamps?
Also, is there a part number for the seal? My interweb and mazda part # searches haven't turned up a thing about the plate or the gasket.
The car has 110k and sat for about a year before I bought it, so it seems reasonable that the sandwich plate seal is shot. Has anyone pulled one of these off before? It almost looks too easy... just one nut and 2 spring clamps?
Also, is there a part number for the seal? My interweb and mazda part # searches haven't turned up a thing about the plate or the gasket.
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For what it's worth, when I retrofitted a 1.8-style oil cooler onto my '92, I replaced the O-ring by taking the cooler to an auto parts store and rummaging through the oil filters until I found one that fit. Removed the o-ring from the filter, threw the rest of the filter away.
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For what it's worth, when I retrofitted a 1.8-style oil cooler onto my '92, I replaced the O-ring by taking the cooler to an auto parts store and rummaging through the oil filters until I found one that fit. Removed the o-ring from the filter, threw the rest of the filter away.
Looks like it'll be an easy fix in another few thousand miles. Thanks for all the help!
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I honestly have no recollection whatsoever of which filter it was that I got the O-ring from. At the time (this was on the turbo '92) I was using M1-104 filters on the engine (which are spec'd for Honda B-series engines) and I know it wasn't that filter- it was one of the cheapies in the Fram / Purolator / etc section. Might well have been the "official" cross-reference equivalent for the Miata filter, I simply didn't pay any attention.
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