Ya hot oil under pressure can sure make a mess ..and alot of smoke if/when it hits the pipes.. Ya gotta love a cheap fix though

Your bullet ricocheted and hit me in the azz. I melted 2 pistons and blew oil all over my boat!

I know the feeliing exactly. Broke an oil line four years ago on a brand new engine. Saw oil gauuge fluctuate as I went into a turn. Immediately stopped even before the alarm went off. Of course the leak was straight up and hitting the hatch and spraying all over. At least it was a cheap fix

I had a AN #12 oil line come loose and pumps 14 QT's in the bildge , the alarm went off ,shut off the motor,,and I started looking around and saw it was a loose fitting,I tighten it by hand and cranked it and had about 10psi ,was able to Idle to the slip.Got lucky made a hell of a mess..


Ive never heard of the sending unit crack like that????

The Alarm senders are notorious for rotting out, especially when they're near the bottom of the block where water collects. It used to be even worse when they had a rubber boot around the sender. All the water/salt would get stuck under the boot and really do a number on it. Salt water use, times it by two.

Glad it wern't too serious...

Frank
"The guy with the 40 year old Donzi."

And a 12 pack of Hieneken NK

That's the "idle back home" first aid kit...

When I saw "Dogded a bullet" I assumed you were writing to say that some other guy was going to marry her because he thought the kid was his.

Happened to me in 2000 10hrs on the motor sunday I thought bent a valve and it seems it was a broken rocker stud so I will firer it up tomorrow and see how it sounds it did not make any banging turnning over to night with out spark hooked up so thats good