oil leaking

dmort

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Today I was discing with my 8N and was loosing oil pressure. Upon closer inspection I find it is leaking out the top of the filter and running down the side. I checked the level of the oil and it was down to
add so I added a quart and started again and soon lost oil pressure and I checked and still leaking. Can anyone give me some ideas. I am using 5w-30 could that be the problem? Need ideas please, thanks.
 
(quoted from post at 18:34:07 05/21/15) Today I was discing with my 8N and was loosing oil pressure. Upon closer inspection I find it is leaking out the top of the filter and running down the side. I checked the level of the oil and it was down to
add so I added a quart and started again and soon lost oil pressure and I checked and still leaking. Can anyone give me some ideas. I am using 5w-30 could that be the problem? Need ideas please, thanks.

I doubt it is the grade of your oil and more likely the result of low oil level. It would be helpful if you would quantify exactly what "loosing oil pressure" means in terms of an actual pressure drop and/or gauge behavior. And I'd suggest fixing that leak before you wind up running the engine with insufficient oil in the sump.

TOH
 
You sure as heck should not be running 5W30 oil in that engine. It is just not precision made enough to run it. The oil pump for starters will not get up any pressure with that thin oil going through it. It may cause the pump to loose it's prime too and have no oil pressure upon start up.

30W unless it is below 0% outside.

Zane
 
yOU MUST HAVE A GOOD GASKET BENEATH THE FILTER CANISTER COVER AND THE COVER MUST BE PROPERLY SEATED
 
(quoted from post at 22:44:43 05/21/15) You sure as heck should not be running 5W30 oil in that engine. It is just not precision made enough to run it. The oil pump for starters will not get up any pressure with that thin oil going through it. It may cause the pump to loose it's prime too and have no oil pressure upon start up.

30W unless it is below 0% outside.

Zane

That's certainly not what the Ford engineers believed when they wrote the 8N Operator's Manual. I suspect they would have been ecstatic to have had an oil with the viscosity range and longevity of a modern SAE 5W30 available for use back in 1950. And I suspect this chart would have looked a little different if they did ;-)

TOH

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first things first
fix the leak

after that, like the guys are sayin, need more info.
a tired N starting at 45lbs and slowly dropping to 10lbs as it warms is common.
dropping to zero is a shut it down emergency of course, but
if the oil filter is sitting there leaking while you watch it..
you are still pumping oil.
tell us more.....
 

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