Saturday, April 5, 2014

A new oil leak

Yeah Smokey started leaking oil from one of the engine oil cooler hoses.  
After looking online for good fixes I decided to have the rubber hoses replaced.   But knowing how cheap I am I tried a quick fix before I get the new hoses made.  Sure I will probably spend $100.00 on the new hoses but much cheaper than blowing all the oil out and driving merrily along the freeway.   I took a couple of hose clamps and just put them over the crimped fittings.  
Now if you can see the streak of oil on the blue hose that is all that came out after taking a drive.  Before I put the clamps on it would leak much more oil just letting it run without driving.  
So if in a pinch just put some clamps on. 
Oh yeah Smokey is no stranger to oil leaks.  LOL