daltvater

I just posted this over at Pelican. You would not believe all the smoke dumping out of the back of my car.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showt...59#post4910759

bart1

Bummer. Seems like something I might do - DOH!!

mcpiaseczny

I did this 2 months ago. If it wasn't for the inner voice it would be have been the biggest "FACK" that my neighbor's kids heard since that other embarrasing thing I did a while back that I won't post here.

daltvater

What was that other embarrassing thing? You'll feel better if you fess up. Thank god my incident didn't send me back to the body shop Have fun at ORP, I'll be in Big Sky that weekend or I would have joined you.

Stealth 993

Clean up the engine bay & you will be fine.

I topped off the C4 before a PCA tour, we drove about 50mi, then hit the back roads & took a hard left, look in the rear view & a HUGE white cloud of smoke is there! I shut down & pull over.

My cap didn't seat right, it was kind of half on, & spilled oil all over the place, it was a mess. I cleaned up what I could, then started the car & checked the level, it was fine.

In the end, I just made the people behind me pucker, & made me clean my engine bay again.

2ndof2

Dunnit also.....improperly replaced cap after doing an oil change.

Called my mechanic in a panic from the side of the road.

Aside from the embarrassment, the worst part was getting oil all over the right side of my fresh & clean, engine bay after having the motor dropped for a top end job only weeks earlier.

NC TRACKRAT

Same thing happened to one of my students at VIR last week-end. We're sitting on the grid, waiting to go out in his M3 and smoke starts billowing out of the engine compartment. He pops the hood and oil is all over the place...oil cap sitting there on the valve cover. Red-faced and half-way through the session, he gets it cleaned up and we're back on track.

Arena993

Did this on my 1st 993. Believe me (as you well know) oil will get everywhere.

Mike

Amfab

Half on oil cap here too. What a mess

Stealth 993

Great to hear I'm not the only bone head to do this! Now I know, & it will never happen again!

clipstone

Dunnit too ... huge cloud of smoke as I blasted away from a toll booth - then the embarrassment of all the other cars then coming past me as I limped along praying I had not just blown my engine ... doh!!

NP993

You also have to make sure your 710 cap is on securely....the 710 cap can cause a similar mess.

brucec59

+1

I've done it. Now, whenever I take off the cap, I place it directly on top of the latch, so there's no way I can close the lid without knowing that I forgot the cap. I do this on all my cars now.

Edward

710 cap ...hahaha nice!

Yup, BTDT with a 1/2-on cap. Up a steep hill and that was all she wrote. Mess+embarrassment=closer attention paid

Edward

mcpiaseczny

I fessed up once already. Let's just say it involved an rhino ramps and a certain allroad on those ramps in neutral and with e-brake disengaged.

We'll miss you! The weather is going to be perfect!