Oil Leak

[dmachura]

I took my Tr7 to work last night, the weather is finally nice enough here on Vancouver Island to drive with the top down. Drive to work was great, warm and sunny. However in the morning when I started it, the oil light was on, it was dark at the time so I couldn't see very well; however, I had oil in the trunk and added about a litre and the light went out. Drove it home 25km, went to bed, got up and went to check for the reason for the warning light. What I found was amazing, I had left a trail of oil for at least 2km from my garage back to where I turned off the freeway. Talk about marking your spot. The leak was caused by the oil pressure switch which had failed.

Moral of the story, oil pressure light could be trying to tell you something.

[silverseven]

Feeling the pain, I've had a similar story myself.......


Few years back had went out to do some running aound for the wife, stopped at Loblaws for the final errand, and while walking out of the store to get back to my car (which for obvious reasons is parked way in back of the lot) and noticed a trail of oil along the asphalt (feeling pity for the poor soul who was leaking) and as I'm walking , started getting that ever sinking feeling,as I'm following this oily line as I'm getting closer to my car ............which turned to pure horror as it lead directly under my car [:0][xx(][B)]

Sure enough, as a once over soon confirmed (followed by a quick start up and even quicker shut down) that my Sunday afternoon drive with the top down , was now over......thanks to the &*#@ oil pressure switch!

In the long run, I guess I was lucky though, atleast it didn't let go on the expressway or something that would have be rather catastrophic to my engines life!!
nb, It's also the only time to date , that my car had to be brought home on the hook........


Ron.

[TR7Aaron]

Are you sure it's an oil leak? I read somewhere that BL was experimenting with a crude GPS system back in the 1970's - it couldn't tell you exactly where you were but it left you a trail to follow home...

Ba-dump bump!

But seriously, folks...

Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

[PeterTR7V8]

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Crude oil GPS perhaps? [:D]

As a rule the car stays in neutral until the oil light goes out. Once in my old BMW the oil light came on late in the day on day 1 of a 4 day one way trip & while in the middle of a desert no less. In a panic I slowed the car to the legal speed limit & pulled into the next petrol dispenser facility. Turns out that light was for oil level instead of oil pressure. Doh.


Never say die. At least not while you're still breathing.

[Workshop Help]

With your permission, we had this happen about 7 months ago. Our moral of the story is to carry a spare switch with the correct oil pressure switch socket in the trunk with all the other spare parts along with a spare jug of oil.

Have you folks also run out of space around the trunk to put all these spare parts? We've got stuff jammed in everywhere. It seems that if you have the spare part on board, the part on the car never fails. Isn't that spooky?

Mildred Hargis