So, I found myself in a bind this weekend with a laundry list of things needing to happen before an upcoming Motorcycle trip that I'm using my CRD to tow with. It wasn't until late Sat evening that it dawned on me that I didn't have an oil filter on hand and I really wanted to get the oil changed over the weekend. I knew my only choice would be Walmart that evening and I sure didn't want to run a Fram. I went through this thread noting all the different oil filters and headed off to Wally World to see what I could find. I had seen the Bosch 3500 come up in this thread and maybe another thread as an oversize filter that worked. That sure beat a Fram so bought it and changed my oil on Sunday. Everything seemed fine and even drove the CRD Sunday evening to dinner.
Monday afternoon, (I work from home) I went to get the mail and noticed a trail of oil under my jeep running down my driveway.
I crawled under real quick and sure enough it was coming from the oil filter. I moved some motorcycles out of the way and squeezed the CRD back into the garage and onto the ramps. I was able to tighten the filter some more, which helped slow the constant drip to a trickle, but it wasn't stopping. As i examined things closer, I noticed the filter was actually bottoming out on the frame bar on the bottom. The filter actually seemed to be sitting at a bit of an angle in this direction, but it wasn't cross threaded which I verified later. Maybe a faulty filter with the guts in there a bit off center? Either way I lost a quart of oil over night in my driveway since the filter didn't make a good seal. The weird thing is it didn't show up until after I drove it.
Anyway, I ended up running to Napa since it was Monday and grabbing the Napa Gold that seems to be the most popular choice in this thread. I pulled the old filter off and you could definitely see where the filter case had bottomed out keeping it from making a good seal. I put the Napa Gold one on and it doesn't touch at all and so far not leaking.
So maybe I had a bad filter, but it does appear the Bosch 3500 filter case is a bit deeper and might actually stop the filter from getting all the way tight. Just keep that in mind. Think I can return it to Walmart as a faulty filter.
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