Re: Big time oil leakies!!!!!

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

So you have a bad oil pressure switch. Replace it and the other one and be 
done with the problem.

on a sidenote; look under your hood more often ;)


>Okay kids, try your hand at this one....
>I was on my way home this evening from work, and my oil light started
>flickering (normal, I have a bad sender).  I checked my pressure gauge,
>and it read a good 4 bar (the engine and oil were cold, so it was a
>little high, again, normal).  Then, the gauge needle started, um,
>flickering, for a lack of a better term.  Bouncing up and down (within a
>bar or so), but steadily declining.  I watched it close, thinking maybe
>either my gauge or sender was going bad (seeing as how it's been cold
>the past couple a weeks, and I've never had any pressure problems prior
>to this).  Then, it drops to zero, and I turned the radio off, to
>listen.  I heard clicking and clattering, so I pulled over (it was a
>dark and cold night, on the Interstate, muwahahahahaha).  I smelled the
>distinct smell of hot oil, so I'm like 'Shit, what now??' (I have a VERY
>bad history with this car).  I got out, grabbed the Maglite, and popped
>the hood.  There is oil EVERYWHERE underneath the car, it coated the oil
>pan and everything rearwards.  The filter has some oil on it, and there
>is oil around the oil temp/coolant temp sensors (looks like it just
>splashed up from wherever the leak was).  I know the oil came from
>underneath the car, and I'm thinking that my oil pan gasket went bad and
>all my oil spewed out.  I was also thinking filter gasket, but the oil
>wasn't that bad on the filter, it's a new filter (around 600 miles on
>the last oil change), and it was tight.
>
>So, whatcha think?  Any ideas?  And, once I get it fixed, what should I
>be worried about when I start it back up?  Hopefully there was no engine
>damage, but I dunno....
>
>Wish me luck!!
>
>Nate
>Bleeding '84 8v
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Chris DeLong
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