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tornik550 |
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I was driving along today (about 40mph) and I looked in the rear view mirror and saw smoke. I immediately looked at the oil pressure gauge and right when I looked down, I saw the oil pressure gauge go to 0. It was not safe for me to turn off the engine and stop, I drove it at low rpm for about 1 minute until I could get in safe area. Everything was running fine when I shut down the engine. The head temps were normal. I have not started the engine since.
It turns out that one of the lines for my external oil cooler tore. I was able to get the car home on a friends trailer. I had fresh oil in the engine when the line tore. What are the chances that I majorly screwed up my engine? How can I find out if I did? |
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kerensky |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 1-February 06 From: Norman, OK Member No.: 5,508 Region Association: Southwest Region ![]() |
A popular pastime at VW meets is to drain all the oil from an engine and run it until it blows. It usually takes a considerable amount of time.
Once they did this with a motor from a Fox, the old 1.8 liter straight 4. It ran for several hours with no oil at all until it ran out of gas. I'd say your motor is likely just fine. |
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