95whitegt Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Wife has a 96 Cobra. Car runs great until yesterday. She saw smoke from under the hood and saw the oil pressure gauge at dead cut it off. I replaced what seemed to be a bad sending unit, filled It with oil being it lost all oil. Ran the car for a min to check everything. Thank god she saved the motor but it's now leaking from the oil filter housing gasket. Not to the point of spraying oil but a very steady fast drip. I think the issue is in the pcv valve locked up and building more pressure than a 200k motor can handle but that's just my theory. Any suggestions? ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmage Posted May 19, 2017 Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 the oil coolers are known to leak, so you're going to want to repair that right off the bat. PCV valves are cheap and easy to replace, might as well change that out too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95whitegt Posted May 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 I'm waiting on the repair kit to show up as we speak. Was told it was ordered a week ago but they should have been here by now. Could I temporarily use the filter housing off the spare 2v motor I have and bypass the coolant hose? Its a daily driven car and need to get it going asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmage Posted May 19, 2017 Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 hmm that im not sure about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95whitegt Posted May 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 Well I'm going to attempt it tomorrow and if it works ill post it up. Again its only a temporary solution. But the gaskets look identical for the part that bolts to the block so it just might work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95whitegt Posted May 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2017 The oil filter housing gasket and cooler are identical. They will transfer. The 2V is out of a 97 GT. The torn apart cooler is from the 96 Cobra the complete unit from the 97 2V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmage Posted May 22, 2017 Report Share Posted May 22, 2017 i only see two 4v oil coolers in the pic. the 2v should look like the one on the left in this pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95whitegt Posted May 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2017 Must have gotten luckey then I guess. All I know is the spare 2v motor came out of a 97 vert auto. Car showed 123 k on the clock but apparently trans was recent rebuild and the motor is a jasper replacement. We bought it wrecked for the trans but kept the motor. Worked out good then I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shifty Posted June 23, 2017 Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 So how did this turn out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
