Briggs Engine Blowing Oil Filter Seal

A friend of mine has a Cub Cadet 2160 with a snow blower attachment. He reported that it kept blowing the oil filter seal this past very cold winter.
I had never seen this problem before and I didn't ask enough questions before starting to diagnose it.
On a cool Spring day at about 40 degrees F ambient, we installed an oil pressure gauge and fresh 10W30 oil.
On start-up, the oil pressure immediately hit 120 psi! I shut it down immediately to re-group.

After asking more questions, two things popped up.
1. The owner was starting the engine at full throttle in -25F to -30F degree weather.
2. The Briggs OE filter states: "Hand Tighten Only". "Hand Tight" is very subjective, depending on how the installer interprets this instruction.

After a 5 minute warm-up period the oil pressure was 30 psi at idle and 40 psi at full throttle.

We could simulate colder conditions by chilling the oil in his freezer and adding the cold oil to the engine.
We decided to wait until winter to see if 5w30, tightening the filter properly, and warming up the engine at idle solves the problem.

See below for the seal squeezed out of the filter body. Regards,
JGC


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Dipstick oil warmer. The old Mack semi cousin had at the farm had high oil pressure when first started, 11 gallons of oil to warm up. The poor viscosity at low temp was hard on turbo bearings, it would peg oil pressure gauge of not up to temp when rev to shift. I always warmed her up. I do the same with my boat motor as it calls for 20w40

Two things hand tight as tight as you can gitit by hand.Lube seal with oil before installing traper

Check that correct pn filter for a vanguard v twin is being used.

According to service manual I have for vanguard v twin the lube system is a full pressure system with a relief valve in it,the valve may be worn,sticking or stuck,however my manual doesn't give location of same,may be in oil pump,filter adapter or the filter itself.

Couple questions, is that the correct filter & gasket? From the pic it looks like the edge of gasket is exposed all the way around. IIRC the gasket should be inside the flange of the housing base. Also possible that an old gasket got left in there, forcing the new gasket out of position.
Willie

I would check to make sure an old gasket is not still stuck on the filter adapter.

All good suggestons but there is another that I saw. Take the filter off and look down the pipe. See that little thingy...it is a pressure restricter. Some engines have that and it can get plugged. Poke a wire through it's little hole.