Thread: Lost all my oil while driving on highway

Well at least you lost yours somewhere that was populated. A few cars ago, chasing a storm and short story long, I went over a hump or something that caused me to bottom out. Bounced off the oil filter, dropped all the oil. 10 miles from the nearest house, no cell phone coverage and a severe storm bearing down on me. Yeah, that was fun.

Originally Posted by Reptile

Boy that sucks. kind of a freak deal there, I don't think I've ever heard of oil gushing out of the sensor before. Dripping sure, but I hope nothing bad has happened to your engine.

My wifes Grand Am developed a good leak from the oil pressure sending unit. Ive heard of it happening before but had never experienced it until then.

Hope you got everything fixed. I never heard of a 24hr part store. I know there is nothing like that around here for many, many miles.

But I would imagine that everything is okay. Maybe a little damage to the bearings, but should be okay to drive.

For my similar story, a couple years ago, before I owned my truck, I was driving up through the mountains. I had driven there before, but the snow melt and rain had caused some big ruts. I was doing fine until I caught a rock. Oil pan was fine, but it broke the oil filter housing clean off. Got a ride home. Next day my dad and I stop at the junk yard to get a new housing and head up into the mountain to fix my car. When we get up there, we realized that we didn't have a gasket. We tried to reuse the old one, but it leaked all over. No good. So my dad pulls a note pad out of the glove box of his truck and tears the cardboard off the back. He then takes about 10 minutes to carefully trace and cut the pattern from the cardboard. Put it all back together and it sealed fine! I drove it like that for another 3 years and it never leaked. That was an 87 3.8L engine.

Originally Posted by Zef_66

I never heard of a 24hr part store.

Half the Auto Zones in Memphis are 24hr. I hate being here in Shreveport and there are none. Got used to it.

Originally Posted by Zef_66

Hope you got everything fixed. I never heard of a 24hr part store. I know there is nothing like that around here for many, many miles.

But I would imagine that everything is okay. Maybe a little damage to the bearings, but should be okay to drive.

For my similar story, a couple years ago, before I owned my truck, I was driving up through the mountains. I had driven there before, but the snow melt and rain had caused some big ruts. I was doing fine until I caught a rock. Oil pan was fine, but it broke the oil filter housing clean off. Got a ride home. Next day my dad and I stop at the junk yard to get a new housing and head up into the mountain to fix my car. When we get up there, we realized that we didn't have a gasket. We tried to reuse the old one, but it leaked all over. No good. So my dad pulls a note pad out of the glove box of his truck and tears the cardboard off the back. He then takes about 10 minutes to carefully trace and cut the pattern from the cardboard. Put it all back together and it sealed fine! I drove it like that for another 3 years and it never leaked. That was an 87 3.8L engine.

that sounds like something my pops would do....he never ceases to amaze me when it comes to rigging stuff up.....

Originally Posted by beastin1

that sounds like something my pops would do....he never ceases to amaze me when it comes to rigging stuff up.....

This comes from years of my dad and his brothers working on cars. When they were growing up and buying cars for $25, they didn't have the cash to buy gaskets, let alone try and find them for some of the old Studebakers they had. So a lot of times, they said they would cut them out of cereal boxes.