Here, I've been nagging KBMWRS to install an oil pressure gauge in his Mustang instead of using just the idiot light. I guess the oil pressure gods got back at me last night on the way home from the local Summer concert series, in my truck.
1 mile from home, wife says "Honey, what's that smell". Hell I thought maybe I just let one loose and she's paying for it.
"Pfffffffft!" I said " I think it's the car in front of us"
We keep on cruizin and suddenly I see smoke in my rear view mirror. "OH CRAP" I yell. I probably should have pulled over immediately but being only 3 blocks from home I say Frick It and drove it like I stole it. Come flying into the driveway, shut it off, jump out and all I could see was a trail of wetness that followed the truck. Quickly open the hood and the whole driver's side of the motor is covered with motor oil.
Had the wife jump behing the wheel asking her to fire it up, hoping that I could see an obvious culprit. Click, Click, Click "It won't fire up" she says. I yell back "Honey it has a foot starter" "oh yeah tehe".
She fires it up while I'm looking at the motor and I yell "shut it off".
Thinking to myself, this must be payback for spending the past 2 hours drinking a bottle of wine and checking out all the local hot house wives while pretending I was enjoying the music.
This motor has an external oil filter canister which is bolted to the intake manifold. Here's a pic showing the canister on the left with an orange top. It has a small rubber line attached to the bottom and goes down to the block. Then there is a long one which taps into the upper side of the canister and goes way down to a Tee that also feeds the mechanical oil pressure guage. The oil was shooting out of this long hose down next to the Tee. It is a very old hose which had gotten hard and split way open shooting all over the motor.
Yes you can't see much oil for last night I hosed off as much excessive oil as I could. Pic was taken this am.
Removed the long hose and have already made a new one with high pressure hose. Tonight hope to install it and fire it up to see or hear if I did some real serious damage. Loss 2 of my 6.5 quarts in 1.3 miles. Long term when I start doing a semi restore of the truck, I plan to replace these two rubber lines with some hard lines.
argh!
1 mile from home, wife says "Honey, what's that smell". Hell I thought maybe I just let one loose and she's paying for it.
"Pfffffffft!" I said " I think it's the car in front of us"
We keep on cruizin and suddenly I see smoke in my rear view mirror. "OH CRAP" I yell. I probably should have pulled over immediately but being only 3 blocks from home I say Frick It and drove it like I stole it. Come flying into the driveway, shut it off, jump out and all I could see was a trail of wetness that followed the truck. Quickly open the hood and the whole driver's side of the motor is covered with motor oil.
Had the wife jump behing the wheel asking her to fire it up, hoping that I could see an obvious culprit. Click, Click, Click "It won't fire up" she says. I yell back "Honey it has a foot starter" "oh yeah tehe".
She fires it up while I'm looking at the motor and I yell "shut it off".
Thinking to myself, this must be payback for spending the past 2 hours drinking a bottle of wine and checking out all the local hot house wives while pretending I was enjoying the music.
This motor has an external oil filter canister which is bolted to the intake manifold. Here's a pic showing the canister on the left with an orange top. It has a small rubber line attached to the bottom and goes down to the block. Then there is a long one which taps into the upper side of the canister and goes way down to a Tee that also feeds the mechanical oil pressure guage. The oil was shooting out of this long hose down next to the Tee. It is a very old hose which had gotten hard and split way open shooting all over the motor.
Yes you can't see much oil for last night I hosed off as much excessive oil as I could. Pic was taken this am.
Removed the long hose and have already made a new one with high pressure hose. Tonight hope to install it and fire it up to see or hear if I did some real serious damage. Loss 2 of my 6.5 quarts in 1.3 miles. Long term when I start doing a semi restore of the truck, I plan to replace these two rubber lines with some hard lines.
argh!
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