This little gem just happened. You might think I would know better than to jury-rig crap like this:
I'm breaking in my 81 Malibu motor - it's got maybe 125 miles on it.
I hooked up a cheapo mechanical oil pressure gauge (with the small, white nylon oil line) just to have a reading until I put back in my little gauge cluster.
I temporarily attached the gauge to my emergency brake pedal, which doesn't get used.
Additionally, I've had some oil leak problems, and just put some flourescent dye in the oil to trace the leak.
Well, today, I caught my shoe on the edge of the gauge and twisted it a little. Stopped and got gas, straightened it out, and got about 1/2 mile from my house, accelerating a bit, and I feel my left sneaker getting warm. I look down and there is a little freakin firehose of bright yellow 10W-40 oil shooting onto my almost new sneaker. Like a half-quart of oil already and it's coming out fast. I try to put my finger over the end but there's good pressure and IT'S HOT. I pull over and reach down and grab the line and bend it in half to close it and then I drive back home with half my body hunched under the dashboard holding this oil friggin artery.
Took 3 hours to get the carpet, driveway and sneakers clean, and they still feel slick.
Don't F&*% Up like I did. If the car had been running longer, it could have caused bad burns.
J
I'm breaking in my 81 Malibu motor - it's got maybe 125 miles on it.
I hooked up a cheapo mechanical oil pressure gauge (with the small, white nylon oil line) just to have a reading until I put back in my little gauge cluster.
I temporarily attached the gauge to my emergency brake pedal, which doesn't get used.
Additionally, I've had some oil leak problems, and just put some flourescent dye in the oil to trace the leak.
Well, today, I caught my shoe on the edge of the gauge and twisted it a little. Stopped and got gas, straightened it out, and got about 1/2 mile from my house, accelerating a bit, and I feel my left sneaker getting warm. I look down and there is a little freakin firehose of bright yellow 10W-40 oil shooting onto my almost new sneaker. Like a half-quart of oil already and it's coming out fast. I try to put my finger over the end but there's good pressure and IT'S HOT. I pull over and reach down and grab the line and bend it in half to close it and then I drive back home with half my body hunched under the dashboard holding this oil friggin artery.
Took 3 hours to get the carpet, driveway and sneakers clean, and they still feel slick.
Don't F&*% Up like I did. If the car had been running longer, it could have caused bad burns.
J