As i drove into the carpark this morning my cabin filled with smoke..
I jumped out and found oil all through the engine bay and the rest all over the ground..

MERRY CHRISTMAS MINI

haha... and here i have Silent night... Oily Night... in my head.... hahaha

oil cooler hose went POP you hope...??????

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Maybe the oil pressure line? Good fun cleaning that out!

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo s**t

This exact same thing happened to me on the first SWOM i went on with you guys. Except in my case it was due to the removal of a breather by my mechanic.

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Im so interested to take a look after work..

First I smelt burning plastic being some sort of short circuit then the smoke started coming through the dash then all the oil fell out...

If it wasn't for OZ50 I would start the 2 year resto plan over christmas and just strip it

Speaking of when you and mike lost your SWOM-ginity, what was the story with your car shooting crap out the exhaust mike?

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You're so square
Baby I don't care

that sucks. i remember my oil gauge pipe letting go behind the gauge while cruising on 90klm. Oil sprayed everywhere, wrecked all the carpet, my jeans, my shoes. Then walked my oily self to the nearest supercheap for a new hose. What a site Fixed it, got home and cleaned it up.

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Dog Food! Most kids like it more than Broccoli.

The SWOM meet turned out to be a fuel pump, I was shooting bits of it out the exhaust..

I just remembered seeing oil run in onto the dash yesterday.. I still haven't looked at it, I'm a bit worried

Years ago (1967), I had an oil gauge fail on my Elf at night, so quite a while until I felt my jeans feeling kinda strangely and warm. I was pretty sure I hadn't pee'd myself and investigation revealed oil saturated beautiful red carpet, oil everywhere in the parcel tray and just a bloody mess. The car was about 14 months old then, no warranty.
Grrrrr, that event ruined my satisfaction with the car.

Al

I love how this stuff happened even when the cars were new haha

Very sad though

Its bad..

Oil pressure gauge has exploded taking with it the percentage of my wiring loom, the oil has filled the engine bay and destroyed my interior..

I just don't know what to do now..

How do you mean the oil pressure gauge "exploded" Is this a standard or after market gauge, what brand Did it explode at the block or in the cabin or what
Pics please....

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Respect mine and I'll respect yours.

Sorry to here dude. One of the worries I had with this, so went for electric gauges instead

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Bluey-1973 Clubby - 1330, high lift, big cam, 7 port madness in progress..

Gumby-1978 Minivan, British Racing Green - 1310, high lift, mild cam, enlarged porting and chamber shape with big valve head, supercharged build in ever slow progress!