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Originally Posted by 911monty
Let's try this one. Cracked cylinder/head #4/5 ? resulting in coolant in the oil. Oil filter is downstream of the oil pump so sees pressure not vacuum. Coolant saturated the paper filter media which swelled closed causing high DP across the media resulting in element collapse. Excessive vapor from coolant in the crankcase overwhelmed the AOS resulting in failure.
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Failure mode #???
Yeah was going to say filter is post pump. I can’t think of another way that the oil filter collapsed other than it absorbed coolant/water. These are not designed for separating water. Maybe a synthetic media filter would have done better? I.E. spin on.
The other question is: did the coolant in oil make the AOS fail? Funny that there was no smoke but there was a ton of oil in the intake...
I’m thinking more and more that the AOS didn’t fail, that is was just oil starvation caused by the crushed filter, destroyed / spun bearing somewhere?
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