Close call

We took my car out for the first drive of the season last night. I had a good bit of work done to the car over the winter which inluded a belt service and valve adjustment, new Larini muffler and completely new interior. We drove about twenty miles to a relatives house, visited for about three hours and returned home.

At about the half-way point home, I got a call from where we had spent the evening with the news that there was a good-size puddle of oil where my car had been parked. A look at the guages showed nothing out of the ordinary so kept my eye on them and continued home.

I checked under the hood and found a good bit of oil in the engine compartment as well as a fresh puddle of oil under the clutch bell housing.

Today I removed the drivers side rear wheel and inner fender and started the car to find the leak. As it turns out, the upper oil cooler line had ruptured to some degree and was spewing oil at a steady rate. The lines had been rebuilt by a local shop a couple of years ago.

This could have been a disaster. No more oil line rebuilds for me (at least at that shop), tommorow I'll be putting in a call to Daniel and ordering new lines.

 

The one that failed was the top hose that runs to the base of the oil filter. I thought I should replace both since they were both made by the same company, but I didn't know they were hard to come by.

 

Would you happen to know which hose is still available?

 

Thanks Helmut.

I'll start the search in the morning.