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Any odor? Do you have a mechanical oil pressure gauge? 200 1992

posted by  Ken C on  Sat May 7 12:57 CST 2005
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Anything to indicate what kind of oil it is? A tell-tale odor, for example?

Frankly, unless it's really coolant (which can have an "oily" feel from the antifreeze component -- but it smells "sweet"), I can't think of anything that normally* contains oil that should be in the passenger compartment.

[* something not usual: any chance that you have a mechanical oil pressure gauge? These old things (in contrast to an electrical gauge with a sender in the block that's 'wired' to the gauge) would have a small tube that runs from the block to the gauge -- the tube contained oil under pressure, to drive the gauge's mechanism. Old Mercedes-Benz cars that had this kind of mechanical gauge sometimes would dump oil on the driver's carpet when this tube leaked at the gauge's fitting.]

Otherwise, you've got me stumped.





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