Oil cooler hoses

[Kent McLean]

Dagnabbitall. (Sh!t, for those non-USEnglish-native speakers).
When I lasted visited this topic, it was for preventative 
measures. But I never got around to a truck stop to see about 
having some lines made up. 

Well, Tuesday I visited some friends about 90 miles away, and 
the oil warning light came on. Checked the dipstick; it was 
dry. I put in 3! quarts of oil. Before I got home, the oil 
warning light came on again. Off to my mechanic. They put it 
up on a lift (you could see the track of oil drops leading to 
my car, plus a "bad puppy" puddle under it.) One of the oil 
lines was leaking. The other's ferrules were rusting away and 
weren't all there. 

Chris Semple to the rescue with used lines and a cooler.
Apparently, the lines rust so securely to the oil cooler
that you usually bugger the cooler getting the lines off.

And before you labaste me for using used lines, they're 
better than what's there. If they last a year, I'm ahead 
of the game.

I think of it as just another car payment. If I had a new car 
loan, I'd be "upside down" on this car. As it is, I need to
get 8 more months out of it to be even. Eight trouble-free
months. Time for another sacrifice to the Audi gods.

Regards,
Kent McLean,
whose '89 200 TQ, it seems, can't go a month without major 
work