Hello all, I am a long time "lurker" around here put this is my first post.

I have a 1998 SR5 4runner that over the weekend I discovered to have a bad oil leak. I slid under the truck with a flashfight and found a dent in oil filter. The leak seamed to be comming from a small hold within the dent. I don't do much offroading with the truck, but it appears that I have taken a rock hit to my oil filter. I do not see how this happend with the skidplate.

Has anyone else heard of this?

I changed the oil and all is well!

Thanks!

 

welcome to yotatech ... ive never heard of this

 

That's some mighty bad luck! Glad you noticed it before things got bad.

 

 

I wish I would have taken a pic!

 

anything is possible so it could have been a debris that may have worked it's way up there. i'd say that's one bad luck man.

get her fixed

welcome to yotatech!

 

What kind of oil filter was it? Orange can of death (fram)?

 

Here is one possible solution:
- http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTri...html#OilCooler