**A Critical Design Flaw Revealed: The GT 250 Oil Filter Issue**

As I began to diagnose the issue with my GT 250, I realized that it was not just a simple leak, but rather a complex problem that required some careful investigation. The oil filter seemed to be fine at first glance, but upon closer inspection, I noticed an o-ring behind the oil filter that appeared to be out of place. This o-ring, which is a critical component in maintaining the engine's seal, had somehow become dislodged and was causing the oil leak.

I couldn't help but wonder how this could have happened, especially considering that the GT 250 has undergone various design changes over the years. The earlier models had a different oil filter block design that allowed for a cartridge-style oil filter, which is now a standard feature in newer models. However, it seems that some of these older vehicles still suffer from this critical design flaw. I decided to research further and discovered that there are indeed designs with loose o-rings that can cause issues.

**A Pit Bike Project: Stripping Down to the Essentials**

Meanwhile, my friend's pit bike had been neglected for far too long. The spokes were broken, leaving it looking like a rinky-dinky mess. I decided to take on the project of restoring it to its former glory. After ordering new wheels and other components, I set out to dismount the old tires. Unfortunately, these new tires are very thin, making them difficult to work with. Using tire irons and various tools, I managed to remove the old tires, only to be frustrated by the lack of clear instructions on how to proceed.

As I struggled with the pit bike project, I couldn't help but think about the importance of seeking help when needed. Feeling like a manly figure who wouldn't ask for assistance, I ended up feeling frustrated and hungry. The process was taking longer than expected, and I began to wonder if it would be easier to rebuild the Mustang engine just to put a tire on the pit bike wheel.

**A New Look for My Pit Bike**

After completing the pit bike restoration, I took a step back to admire my handiwork. The new wheels and plastic components looked sleek and modern, despite some minor scratches on the frame. While I had originally planned to strip down and sand the frame, paint it, or get a powder coat, time constraints and priorities got in the way. For now, I'm satisfied with the temporary fix and plan to add some stickers and make further improvements.

**Cleaning Up the Porsche: A Track Day Reflection**

As I spent more time cleaning up my Porsche after the track day, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. The car looked brand new, despite having been subjected to the rigors of racing. The experience had taught me a lot about the importance of maintenance and quick thinking in high-pressure situations. With the Porsche now sparkling clean, I'm eager to share it with my friends and show off its improved appearance.

In conclusion, these two projects – one involving the GT 250 oil filter issue and the other being the pit bike restoration – have highlighted the importance of careful attention to detail and seeking help when needed. By addressing these issues head-on, I've not only gained valuable experience but also ensured the well-being and longevity of my vehicles.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys so I know this is a video that a lot of you guys have been patiently waiting for today we're gonna diagnose what happened in the Mustang if you remember we're at the track lost all oil pressure and we got to figure out what it is hypothesis may be something related to the oil filter coming loose or oil lines being faulty faulty faulty I don't know why I'm talking so weird from the manufacturer so there's apparently recalls on this I'm hoping that's what it is so this video is going to be an uncut video of me tearing down Mustang because in the event that I need to show this to a dealership I want to be able to show them that we haven't amber with anything tell me if she wanted me to power wash all the oil off of the car before I brought in the shop so don't make a mess but I want to be able to easily prove where the oil came from and what happened so if you notice I'm wearing a super JDM origin jumpsuit what would this be called overalls I don't know but not because I'm trying to be cool or anything I've had this for a while but I never want to use it but I'm like man I'm probably gonna get covered in oil and Alberta has been cutting fiberglass so there's fiberglass all over the ground even though I swept and I just clean the Porsche so I don't want to get a bunch of fiberglass in the Porsche so I figure I'll throw this over my clothes if you look the other day Alberta actually did start fitting a bunch of the spare vertex kit that I have so he got the front end done so I can get this stuff wrapped and then have super pretty backup bumpers and stuff so pretty rad we'll get started on this thing and we shall throw it up in the air I think I'm gonna pop the hood so we can get a little bit of light shining through to make it a little bit easier to see what's going on I will say though right now with the information that I've read online I am leaning towards this being the actual manufacturer defect over some sort of incident from going off-track I will say though from the sounds and everything that engine made I don't think there's any internal damage of engine I think it's still salvageable because the car did give me the low oil pressure warning but you never know when we put on back in this thing she might be knocking so we'll see so looking underneath the car before I start removing anything you can see that this the strip trade did do a pretty good job at containing the oil up there it looks like most of the residue is kind of in this area you can see that it flowing on to that wheel which is what coated my brakes and made me not able to stop not really any on this side but we can trace the oil back running all the way on to actual headers so it's probably where I saw some of the oil smoke coming out and kind of traces all the way back on the frame which is pretty crazy that it must have either been splashing up or something to the point where even back here we're seeing actual oil residue on the exhaust so kind of funny to think that the oil would get all the way back here just from traveling and dripping on the car must have been a pretty crazy leak or something but I mean that's still that still puzzles me that without burning off it could somehow travel all the way down the exhaust and get oil on the muffler so maybe that was just splashing up I don't know so I went ahead and put this actual teardown table yes what it's called so this table has like a hole in it for catching fluids and stuff so I put this into me the pan hoping that if there's a lot of stuff dripping and I'll catch here I hope I don't get too covered in oil because I actually really do like this I don't want it to get covered in oil but that's what it's for so this is gonna be the long uncut clip well actually I'll probably wait until I have the tools and I'd only get the long cut clip so Ford can't be like are you tampered with it you did this you did that I didn't even clean anything so hopefully we'll pull this pin way and it'll reveal whatever happened oil on me thank you I don't think you guys understand it's not that I'm afraid of oil there's literally probably the core a quart of oil just sitting in this pan right now that I can see from the top so I'm just waiting for it to pour all over me at any given moment hopefully the state will catch most of it that's the goal please remember we'll hold this thing up stupid Torx bits I don't have a three a still napping is your big boy ratchet on these guys but right probably can do by hand so I can't figure out necessarily how to get this tray complete job because it seems like it goes pretty far up and somehow this looks like it's like ripping it on throw those allen bolts I don't understand necessarily how to take this tray completely out so I guess we're just gonna leave it on because it looks like it's attached to the front lip somehow but I think we'll be able to see what we need to see I mean you take my gloves off so I can film with my camera and then won't poke around the night series no not so the first thing I did I started looking kind of like by you know the oil cooler lines and stuff and although there's a little bit of residue it doesn't appear that anything is damaged anything was hit anything is broken and it seems like the majority of the oil is kind of all around the oil filter so the only thing that I could think of doing right now is see if the oil filter is loose because if it is that would explain a lot I don't see any dead obvious things underneath the car that would explain with oils coming from all right first I pass this test the oil filter is not loose it is absolutely tight so that is not where our oil is coming from I'm giving a decent pressure and there is ZERO play so this is where it gets interesting probably to do some research real quick and see where those oil line failure points are so I can inspect and see if maybe that's where the oil is coming from because I'm kind of stumped now probably not the smartest thing in the world but I really am kind of stumped for how I can actually isolate where the leak is coming from because there's oil everywhere so what I'm going to do it's kind of a waste but uh so I got when I put some vr1 in it until it reads full on the dipstick try to start it just to try to see if I can visually just inspect where the oil is coming out of I think so long as there's no damage done already which it didn't sound like I think we should be okay by doing this but that's what I'm gonna do just for reference I just put five quarts of vr1 in here it's still not showing on the dipstick so we lost at least five quarts on the track I'm assuming we lost all the oil but we'll see it took about eight quarts so yeah we definitely had no oil in this thing but what I'm gonna try to do hopefully I don't know if this car will build oil pressure just cranking but if it does then we'll be able to see from cranking I don't know if it'll build enough oil pressure while cranking to be able to see a leak so hopefully I can do that and I won't even have to turn it on but we'll see I really hope it doesn't spray in my face but it very well might but we got to figure out where this leak is coming from so I'm gonna do my best to pay attention go ahead and crank it alright that's looked like it all shot from underneath what the heck good thing he wasn't standing there huh probably pretty dumb putting my camera right in the line of fire but this is the only way I feel like I'm gonna be able to actually see what's going on so it appears as if somehow I don't know how you would even explain this there's like a an o-ring behind the oil filter that looks like it's it's not in the right spot which doesn't make any sense but if you look underneath here you see that little rubber piece I don't know how it would even get like that maybe you backed off and slipped down and the reseal itself but it's super weird so even though that one filter appeared to be tight it was indeed loose and that thing that we did see underneath was the o-ring that had popped out and somehow wedged itself in and was causing enough pressure and enough seal to actually prevent it from leaking too much probably for a while and then it popped out just enough to start squirting out the side so as I said I didn't look it up and this is a critical design flaw of the GT 250 in the earlier years they now have a cartridge style that doesn't get loose so what you can do is give a different kind of oil filter block from Ford that allows you to have a cartridge style oil filter what I'll probably do is put another stock oil filter on it a little oil make sure everything's okay before I go order money on the part and then change it and yeah I just want to go the car on the road as soon as possible rather than waiting for that because I got a friend coming in town a lot use the Mustang while they're in town so anyway but we're gonna do one more thing over here that I'm excited to do but I think you guys we start on them so yes though if you notice I haven't been riding the pit bike and it's actually because I found out um I guess it's in this side pretty much all the spokes were broken so I've been riding around with like no spokes so I found out it was actually cheaper well not cheaper but is pretty cheap is like a hundred bucks for just two new wheels for it so I got some sweet gold wheels I got some carbon-fiber looking plastic a different seat and some new tires so I think I'm gonna pull this thing apart I'm trying to clean it up and make it look nice cuz right now it's been kind of rinky-dinky and I think you can make it look really nice just a little TLC two hours later I've realized that the real heroes of society are whoever's out there mounting these ten inch pit bike tires because I kid you not I have been struggling for the past two hours both dismounting the old tire because the new tires I got are really really thin this is the new tire that I got and then this is the old tire that was on it's nice and thick and like I was using tire iron and like some random tools I had to do it it just was really really tough I was getting so frustrated I didn't want to look up how to do it I was feeling like very manly and not wanting to ask for help or anything and like I got really hungry and I didn't want to give up I scratched the wheel a little bit but not too bad that's just that's a little scratch right there oh well but like I don't know honestly like you know that amount of time they spend on this I probably could have rebuilt the Mustang engine just to put a tire on a pit bike wheel I'm so I can't words can't explain the frustration that I have right now but the pit bag looks cool the new plastic I'll probably finish it up tomorrow it's taking everything in me as well I wanted to strip it down and sand down the frame and repaint it or get a powder-coated or something but like there's so many more important things that I should be doing with my time then powder coating a pit bike so for now we'll just put the new plastics on and I'll finish that tomorrow should look pretty sweet maybe do some stickers on it and I'll show you guys real quick terrible place to show you maybe I can show you I'll show you when I get back home but I spent a long time this morning cleaning up the Porsche after the track day and I'm very very proud of how it came out so we'll show you back at the garage when you say when you say nobody knows you likewhat's up guys so I know this is a video that a lot of you guys have been patiently waiting for today we're gonna diagnose what happened in the Mustang if you remember we're at the track lost all oil pressure and we got to figure out what it is hypothesis may be something related to the oil filter coming loose or oil lines being faulty faulty faulty I don't know why I'm talking so weird from the manufacturer so there's apparently recalls on this I'm hoping that's what it is so this video is going to be an uncut video of me tearing down Mustang because in the event that I need to show this to a dealership I want to be able to show them that we haven't amber with anything tell me if she wanted me to power wash all the oil off of the car before I brought in the shop so don't make a mess but I want to be able to easily prove where the oil came from and what happened so if you notice I'm wearing a super JDM origin jumpsuit what would this be called overalls I don't know but not because I'm trying to be cool or anything I've had this for a while but I never want to use it but I'm like man I'm probably gonna get covered in oil and Alberta has been cutting fiberglass so there's fiberglass all over the ground even though I swept and I just clean the Porsche so I don't want to get a bunch of fiberglass in the Porsche so I figure I'll throw this over my clothes if you look the other day Alberta actually did start fitting a bunch of the spare vertex kit that I have so he got the front end done so I can get this stuff wrapped and then have super pretty backup bumpers and stuff so pretty rad we'll get started on this thing and we shall throw it up in the air I think I'm gonna pop the hood so we can get a little bit of light shining through to make it a little bit easier to see what's going on I will say though right now with the information that I've read online I am leaning towards this being the actual manufacturer defect over some sort of incident from going off-track I will say though from the sounds and everything that engine made I don't think there's any internal damage of engine I think it's still salvageable because the car did give me the low oil pressure warning but you never know when we put on back in this thing she might be knocking so we'll see so looking underneath the car before I start removing anything you can see that this the strip trade did do a pretty good job at containing the oil up there it looks like most of the residue is kind of in this area you can see that it flowing on to that wheel which is what coated my brakes and made me not able to stop not really any on this side but we can trace the oil back running all the way on to actual headers so it's probably where I saw some of the oil smoke coming out and kind of traces all the way back on the frame which is pretty crazy that it must have either been splashing up or something to the point where even back here we're seeing actual oil residue on the exhaust so kind of funny to think that the oil would get all the way back here just from traveling and dripping on the car must have been a pretty crazy leak or something but I mean that's still that still puzzles me that without burning off it could somehow travel all the way down the exhaust and get oil on the muffler so maybe that was just splashing up I don't know so I went ahead and put this actual teardown table yes what it's called so this table has like a hole in it for catching fluids and stuff so I put this into me the pan hoping that if there's a lot of stuff dripping and I'll catch here I hope I don't get too covered in oil because I actually really do like this I don't want it to get covered in oil but that's what it's for so this is gonna be the long uncut clip well actually I'll probably wait until I have the tools and I'd only get the long cut clip so Ford can't be like are you tampered with it you did this you did that I didn't even clean anything so hopefully we'll pull this pin way and it'll reveal whatever happened oil on me thank you I don't think you guys understand it's not that I'm afraid of oil there's literally probably the core a quart of oil just sitting in this pan right now that I can see from the top so I'm just waiting for it to pour all over me at any given moment hopefully the state will catch most of it that's the goal please remember we'll hold this thing up stupid Torx bits I don't have a three a still napping is your big boy ratchet on these guys but right probably can do by hand so I can't figure out necessarily how to get this tray complete job because it seems like it goes pretty far up and somehow this looks like it's like ripping it on throw those allen bolts I don't understand necessarily how to take this tray completely out so I guess we're just gonna leave it on because it looks like it's attached to the front lip somehow but I think we'll be able to see what we need to see I mean you take my gloves off so I can film with my camera and then won't poke around the night series no not so the first thing I did I started looking kind of like by you know the oil cooler lines and stuff and although there's a little bit of residue it doesn't appear that anything is damaged anything was hit anything is broken and it seems like the majority of the oil is kind of all around the oil filter so the only thing that I could think of doing right now is see if the oil filter is loose because if it is that would explain a lot I don't see any dead obvious things underneath the car that would explain with oils coming from all right first I pass this test the oil filter is not loose it is absolutely tight so that is not where our oil is coming from I'm giving a decent pressure and there is ZERO play so this is where it gets interesting probably to do some research real quick and see where those oil line failure points are so I can inspect and see if maybe that's where the oil is coming from because I'm kind of stumped now probably not the smartest thing in the world but I really am kind of stumped for how I can actually isolate where the leak is coming from because there's oil everywhere so what I'm going to do it's kind of a waste but uh so I got when I put some vr1 in it until it reads full on the dipstick try to start it just to try to see if I can visually just inspect where the oil is coming out of I think so long as there's no damage done already which it didn't sound like I think we should be okay by doing this but that's what I'm gonna do just for reference I just put five quarts of vr1 in here it's still not showing on the dipstick so we lost at least five quarts on the track I'm assuming we lost all the oil but we'll see it took about eight quarts so yeah we definitely had no oil in this thing but what I'm gonna try to do hopefully I don't know if this car will build oil pressure just cranking but if it does then we'll be able to see from cranking I don't know if it'll build enough oil pressure while cranking to be able to see a leak so hopefully I can do that and I won't even have to turn it on but we'll see I really hope it doesn't spray in my face but it very well might but we got to figure out where this leak is coming from so I'm gonna do my best to pay attention go ahead and crank it alright that's looked like it all shot from underneath what the heck good thing he wasn't standing there huh probably pretty dumb putting my camera right in the line of fire but this is the only way I feel like I'm gonna be able to actually see what's going on so it appears as if somehow I don't know how you would even explain this there's like a an o-ring behind the oil filter that looks like it's it's not in the right spot which doesn't make any sense but if you look underneath here you see that little rubber piece I don't know how it would even get like that maybe you backed off and slipped down and the reseal itself but it's super weird so even though that one filter appeared to be tight it was indeed loose and that thing that we did see underneath was the o-ring that had popped out and somehow wedged itself in and was causing enough pressure and enough seal to actually prevent it from leaking too much probably for a while and then it popped out just enough to start squirting out the side so as I said I didn't look it up and this is a critical design flaw of the GT 250 in the earlier years they now have a cartridge style that doesn't get loose so what you can do is give a different kind of oil filter block from Ford that allows you to have a cartridge style oil filter what I'll probably do is put another stock oil filter on it a little oil make sure everything's okay before I go order money on the part and then change it and yeah I just want to go the car on the road as soon as possible rather than waiting for that because I got a friend coming in town a lot use the Mustang while they're in town so anyway but we're gonna do one more thing over here that I'm excited to do but I think you guys we start on them so yes though if you notice I haven't been riding the pit bike and it's actually because I found out um I guess it's in this side pretty much all the spokes were broken so I've been riding around with like no spokes so I found out it was actually cheaper well not cheaper but is pretty cheap is like a hundred bucks for just two new wheels for it so I got some sweet gold wheels I got some carbon-fiber looking plastic a different seat and some new tires so I think I'm gonna pull this thing apart I'm trying to clean it up and make it look nice cuz right now it's been kind of rinky-dinky and I think you can make it look really nice just a little TLC two hours later I've realized that the real heroes of society are whoever's out there mounting these ten inch pit bike tires because I kid you not I have been struggling for the past two hours both dismounting the old tire because the new tires I got are really really thin this is the new tire that I got and then this is the old tire that was on it's nice and thick and like I was using tire iron and like some random tools I had to do it it just was really really tough I was getting so frustrated I didn't want to look up how to do it I was feeling like very manly and not wanting to ask for help or anything and like I got really hungry and I didn't want to give up I scratched the wheel a little bit but not too bad that's just that's a little scratch right there oh well but like I don't know honestly like you know that amount of time they spend on this I probably could have rebuilt the Mustang engine just to put a tire on a pit bike wheel I'm so I can't words can't explain the frustration that I have right now but the pit bag looks cool the new plastic I'll probably finish it up tomorrow it's taking everything in me as well I wanted to strip it down and sand down the frame and repaint it or get a powder-coated or something but like there's so many more important things that I should be doing with my time then powder coating a pit bike so for now we'll just put the new plastics on and I'll finish that tomorrow should look pretty sweet maybe do some stickers on it and I'll show you guys real quick terrible place to show you maybe I can show you I'll show you when I get back home but I spent a long time this morning cleaning up the Porsche after the track day and I'm very very proud of how it came out so we'll show you back at the garage when you say when you say nobody knows 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