ran out of oil.

[ryanruggles at uniserve.com (Ryan Ruggles)]

Heres the story.  I was over at my parents place visiting a couple of days
ago.  My dad notices after I leave that there is a huge puddle of oil where
my car was parked and a pretty good trail leading away from it.  My dad
tells  my mom to call me to let me know so my engine doesn't seize or spin a
bearing.  WHat does she do????  She leaves a message on my turned off cell
phone instead of calling me at work to tell me, sooooooooooooooooooooo.... I
end up driving with about a litre of oil for about 80km's on the highway
averaging about 3500 rpm's. Then I finnally recive the message at 11 0'clock
that night.  F-ME!  So I figured out the oil cooler flange o-ring blew out
and it was pissing oil out from there.  I foixed it and when I looked at the
drained oil, there was know filings in it.  It does seem to have less power
and sound a bit different though.  And I also noticed that my average oil
pressure has dropped 20 psi on gauge.  i.e. when I used to start it up cold,
the gauge read 80psi and now it reads 60psi at start up.  When it warms up
it drops to 40 psi.  What is causing this drop?  It is not consuming oil.
It is a 1.8L JH.

Pissed off Ryan