At 11:52 AM 1/15/99 EST, you wrote:
>I had the same thing happen to me near Richmond, IN on a Sunday
>morning. It let go as I was on the merge lane of an on ramp. I
>managed to get back to a gas station.
When I was assembling my basket case Tiger I noticed a melted flat spot on
the old oil line. That compelled me to go with the SS line from CAT.
I set up the car with a spin off oil filter mounted in the same location as
stock and made up Aeroquip hoses with a 300 psi rating. I was driving home
from work on a Friday afternoon when my car did its best imitation of a
WWII destroyer laying down a smoke screen. Pressure was OK, so I drove the
remaining half a block home (I must live right) and discovered the
pressurized line to the oil filter was spraying oil through fine cracks in
the hose, into the fan blade and then of course it was well distributed
throughout the engine compartment. The hose was ten years old, but my
original hoses look to be in better shape. I always thought that the hoses
that came OEM from Rootes were awesome. I had an Alpine that had 20 year
old radiator hoses that I could not bring myself to change because they
were so much more beefy than what is made today.
I switched my oil filter setup to the SVO right angle adapter, thanks to
the heads up from Armand and others. Took me a while to install it because
I blew out my Achilles tendon shortly thereafter, but when I got to it, it
was a snap to install. Thanks to all for the tip.
Bob Melusky
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