Blonde Healey Girl
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Not 15 minutes after telling someone how reliable our LBC is, it left me disabled!!! I thought the burning oil smell was coming from a ratty truck in front of me. When we all stopped at a red light the smoke poured out from under MY hood (bonnet,sorry). Long story short, The flex line from the block that connects to the oil pressure gauge hard pipe perforated and sprayed oil on the exhaust manifold. Lost 3 qts of oil in less than 10 minutes. Kinda smelly....Glad I was not on the interstate where I would have never known it was leaking unless I had made a glance at the 22lbs of oil pressure, which usually runs around 60psi at 60mph....Guess red light stops sometimes have a silver lining....Was able to put a pipe plug into the block to get it home. Moral of the story, change all those 40 year old flex lines, brakes, oil, water, etc!!!!