leaky oil filter

[angus67]

hey,guys!! noticed a few spots of oil here and there about the driveway, and thought it was brothers car, as he takes his car to quikie lube, suggested he take his cobalt back and have them check bolt and filter. he said all is well. so, since I recently changed oil, on my own, I jacked up my cb7, and took a quick look, and saw that the oil gasket was leaking. I checked to see how tight it was, so, I back ed it off, and retightened, it was alittle tighter than it shouda been, but Ive had them tighter without prob. So, I figured I 'rippled' the gasket, and just whent to the store and grabbed a new one and spun it on. Ill check it again in a week. the gasket surface on the engine feels good and smooth. do you think the filter gasket was bad? Or did I tighten too much? Ive allways changed my own oil, and never had this problem. what do you think?

[DaGrk1]

these cars have a oil cooler which the oil filter spins on. then the oil cooler is bolted to the block. the gasket between the =cooler and the block is a common gasket to go bad on a cb7. honda sells the gasket for like $3.50 bucks

[angus67]

how do you get that off?

[xx93accordxx]

would it be a good idea to replace this gasket when replacing the oil pan gasket?

[NAiL05]

The cooler o ring only applies if you have an EX or SE accord. LX/DX models do not have this. If its not leaking its kinda pointless to replace it unless you just want an ease of mind.

I forgot how big the nut was but you break off the nut and the oring should be right there.

[xx93accordxx]

would it be a good idea to replace just incase its leaking along with the oil pan

[angus67]

someone recently bumped a 2 month old thread about this. one reply was that the nut is a 30mm. is it around the threaded part that the filter spins on? if it is, when I take that off, should the adapter come right off? and cant I get the gasket from schmuck's or napa?

[DaGrk1]

another common thing with these cb7's is that there oil pan bolts become loose. Check to see if they are tight. If they aren't tighten in down but not too tight and it could take care of your problem. as far as the oil filter it should come right off and napa i believe has it.

[angus67]

I KNOW the oil filter will come off .im asking about the adapter for the oil cooler that is inbetween the block and the filter. If I take the 30mm nut off, will the adapter come of? sh yes, its a ex

[angus67]

would it be a good idea to replace just incase its leaking along with the oil pan

were did/how did you get that sig? is that a cartoon rendering ofyour car? its cool. figured its custom cuz o the greener fender