Z-Car » oil pressure http://www.z-car.com/blog Gary's Ramblings about everything from Cars to the idea of US Energy Independence Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:32:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Nobody Told Me There Would Be Days Like This… http://www.z-car.com/blog/2008/04/02/27 http://www.z-car.com/blog/2008/04/02/27#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:42:37 +0000 gsmith http://z-car.com/blog/2008/04/02/27 Was traveling North on I95 between Washington and Baltimore yesterday when at about 75MPH noticed a change in engine note. Let off throttle, noise went away, back on throttle, definitely something not right. As I worked my way over to the right lane, the oil pressure light came on. Clutch-in, and started coasting. Light flickered a few times, then solid on. Once it was on full, I turned off engine and coasted off the Rt175 ramp all the way to a gas station at the end of the ramp. The time the engine was on and first noticed issue until I shut down was approx 1 minute (probably less).

As I got out of the car, I was greeted to the whole left side of the car covered in oil, with more flowing from the oil cooler location.

Took four hours to get a tow truck that would tow it to Criswell, most wanted nothing to do with towing the Lotus. One guy came by and said he would never trust the tow ring to pull it onto flat bed.

Waiting to hear back from Criswell today…

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