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fireman1073 · #1 09-14-2006, 05:02 PM

I leave my house this morning and 500 feet from my house a truck pulls along side me and says "hey your leaking oil"

so i pull over and check my trunk because i have some cubies of veg oil in there and thinking i tipped one over but to my surprise they are ok.

I run to the ignition and as i turn off the car i notice NO oil pressure

I open the hood and oil all over the passenger side of the motor.

The turbo oil feed line ruptured at the back of the head where it goes through the steel clamp.

Got the car home and put a rubber high pressure oil line on it with double clamps for now and filled with oil, all is good.

where can i get that steel line from?

Dealer only?

Steve

Johnhef · #2 09-14-2006, 05:15 PM

If you know the part number you may find it online but your best and easiest bet would probabaly be to go check some junkyards.

TX76513 · #3 09-14-2006, 06:02 PM

Wow close call. Guess you owe a kudo to the FD

kerry · #4 09-14-2006, 06:13 PM

Therre have been quite a few reports on this forum of failed oil cooler lines but this is the first time I can recall reading of a failed turbo oil line. Any idea why it failed? Had the engine been shaking a lot?

Jeremy5848 · #5 09-14-2006, 09:18 PM

Catastrophic oil pressure loss is one of the things that we hope never happens. It takes only a few seconds to ruin an engine. The current tale encourages me to look at adding a warning light and maybe a buzzer to my 617.952. All I'd have to do is to add a tee to the existing oil pressure gauge line at the gauge and install a pressure switch. I've never had the gauge cluster out but it looks like it would be fairly easy to add a red flashing LED in the space below and to the right of the oil pressure gauge.

Jeremy

Scott98 · #6 09-15-2006, 12:13 AM

These cars are much more robust than you think. Check out this thread:
Almost lost my engine - learn from my stupid mistake.

The car is still not using any oil between changes almost 40,000 miles later. You should be fine.

Scott

winmutt · #7 09-15-2006, 12:40 AM

When I put a hole in my pan I drove the car for about 4 more miles before I turned it off. Only then did the oil really start gushing. I would say a good amount stays in the oil channels/cooler.

2.5Turbo · #8 09-15-2006, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott98

These cars are much more robust than you think. Check out this thread:
Almost lost my engine - learn from my stupid mistake.

The car is still not using any oil between changes almost 40,000 miles later. You should be fine.

Scott

I had one of those stupid moments a few years back when I was changing the oil in the F150. When replacing the spin on filter, I neglected to check if the rubber gasket came off with the filter. I screwed the new one on and filled the engine. The two gaskets held at idle speed, but when I goosed the engine, my brother who was observing started waving his hands frantically as the oil blew out from between the two gaskets. I immediately shut it off. Luckily it only lost about a quart, so no damage was done. But it sure gave me quite a scare, and I always have been checking these things from then on.

networkboy · #9 09-15-2006, 01:14 AM

I lost my pressure sender on my C1500 so all the oil was blowing into the firewall rather than the engine

Read full pressure till the sump ran dry, stopped the truck and: "hey what's that blue smok...oh sh**"
Still doesn't use any oil, this after two overheats (one that qualified as abusive as I drove redlined on the temp for an additional 2 miles). I've used 5W50 synthetic forever and I'm sure that's what saved my ass every time, especially with the overheats.
-nB

linguica · #10 09-17-2006, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fireman1073

I leave my house this morning and 500 feet from my house a truck pulls along side me and says "hey your leaking oil"

so i pull over and check my trunk because i have some cubies of veg oil in there and thinking i tipped one over but to my surprise they are ok.

I run to the ignition and as i turn off the car i notice NO oil pressure

I open the hood and oil all over the passenger side of the motor.

The turbo oil feed line ruptured at the back of the head where it goes through the steel clamp.

Got the car home and put a rubber high pressure oil line on it with double clamps for now and filled with oil, all is good.

where can i get that steel line from?

Dealer only?

Steve

Wow! Just out of curiosity, how thick-walled is the turbo oil line? Mine vibrates around, and shows some wear near the metal loop on the intake manifold that holds it in place. Looks like maybe there was a rubber grommet in there back in the day.

Mark