[VintageLambo] Re: burst oil cooler pipe

Rings various bells Clive, sorry to hear it happened to you! I"ve had oil line problems before, and replaced the big one with a reworked countach line from GTCP (they made it up for me).I checked the old hose carefully and found several chaffed areas, so now I have copper (I think) bands around the hose in those areas, held on by hose clamps. I had my front crank pully come off because the nut holding it on worked its way off.Same amount of oil lost as you -- I hear ya! Billows of smoke, oil all over, etc., etc.(all over the new undercoat! dripping off from the entire frame...) One of the old topics here was "why does the 400gt have so much oil."Well, one of the reasons is so that when these sorts of things happen we don"t blow up the motor!;^DI had about 6 quarts left after that disaster, and that was about 15 years ago, I don"t think any damage was done because I turned the motor off immediately.That is, immediately when I realized what was going on. I have a feeling you"ll be ok on this one.It really does pay to be wide awake while driving our "Vintage Lamborghinis."There is a lot going on, and things can go wrong very quickly. Good luck! Fred