arrie
New Member
So I had the task of moving a pantech-trailer with some fully loaded furniture several hundred kilometers.
So I just started my trip, done maybe 15 to 20km.
Then a notice the oil pressure meter doing a funny dance, damn this unreliable stuff, I thought. I banged it a couple of times with the fist, nothing happened, except the slight pain in the knuckles.
Suddenly, like Juliet's final dance before her painful demise, then needle tumbles to Romeos side (then line indicating 0 bar).
What now?
Some more banging of the instruments took place, then I noticed the steady climb of the temp gauge from its normal 80 position towards 100.
I switch on the indicator, moved the truck onto the shoulder of the road and switched it off. The top gear crew would have been impressed, it took only a few seconds, (some brilliant emergency driving there on my part).
I jumped out and was greeted with a massive river of oil underneath the huge 15000cc V8, not good.
So where do you think the oil came from.
Interestingly enough, a blown water pipe that connects to the radiator.
So I just started my trip, done maybe 15 to 20km.
Then a notice the oil pressure meter doing a funny dance, damn this unreliable stuff, I thought. I banged it a couple of times with the fist, nothing happened, except the slight pain in the knuckles.
Suddenly, like Juliet's final dance before her painful demise, then needle tumbles to Romeos side (then line indicating 0 bar).
What now?
Some more banging of the instruments took place, then I noticed the steady climb of the temp gauge from its normal 80 position towards 100.
I switch on the indicator, moved the truck onto the shoulder of the road and switched it off. The top gear crew would have been impressed, it took only a few seconds, (some brilliant emergency driving there on my part).
I jumped out and was greeted with a massive river of oil underneath the huge 15000cc V8, not good.
So where do you think the oil came from.
Interestingly enough, a blown water pipe that connects to the radiator.