Yesterday I drove my car to a friends in the rain. At his house we hopped in his truck. While driving down the rode we noticed an oil slick in the other lane and commented (after about 4 miles) how that guy was probably screwed!
When we came back we realized the slick was in his driveway and under my car (99 cobra). In that four miles I lost all but a quart of oil, luckily it was at 25mph and very cool outside.
I called the SVT service manager today and they said the oil sending units have a diaphragm that can give out and you "will quickly purge the engine of oil".
I never saw the engine light come on, and when I filled it up with oil and changed the sensor it fired up just fine--but I think I could have toasted the motor easily if I had been on the highway listening to the radio. By the time the red light would come on you'd be permanently gluing stuff together, or dropping parts out the bottom!
When we came back we realized the slick was in his driveway and under my car (99 cobra). In that four miles I lost all but a quart of oil, luckily it was at 25mph and very cool outside.
I called the SVT service manager today and they said the oil sending units have a diaphragm that can give out and you "will quickly purge the engine of oil".
I never saw the engine light come on, and when I filled it up with oil and changed the sensor it fired up just fine--but I think I could have toasted the motor easily if I had been on the highway listening to the radio. By the time the red light would come on you'd be permanently gluing stuff together, or dropping parts out the bottom!