Help Please - Need A Loan Of Someone's Engine Oil Cap!

[EvilDaifu]

Hi Guys,

I don't usually do this but this is urgent - I have just discovered that I have a broken engine oil cap - it's totally farrked - the thread has perished for some reason. What's more, I have organised the Great Ocean Road cruise tomorrow Sunday and I am likely to pull out now of leading it if I can't borrow someone's oil cap for tomorrow. I am not sure if I can buy a replacement part from Autobarn or similar in time before 9am tomorrow.

Here's what my engine oil cap looks like right now - it barely stays in place with what little thread it has left!!!

So I have 2 questions:

1. I hoping I can call upon someone's generosity to loan me an engine oil cap for my T?

(willing to pick it up tonight anywhere in Melbourne).

2. I didn't find all the missing thread from the cap - am hoping like hell that Ford engineers did the right thing and put in a really good oil filter to prevent the missing pieces I couldn't find from farkking up my engine - would anyone know if that is correct?

Please - I am hoping someone can help out here Please PM me if you can help me.

[seventytwo]

I have a spare but I cant get it to you in time, I hope you can pick one up some where for tomorrow.

Unfortunately its all to common, the heat makes the plastic brittle and sooner or later the thread breaks and ends up in your engine. Lucky for me I found my missing bits still sitting at the top of the head.

I strongly suggest If any one still has the plastic cap, replace it with a billet cap before you end up fishing bits of it out of your sump.

[EvilDaifu]

hey seventytwo, when it breaks up, do you know if it can damage your engine? Or does the oil filter stop that from happening. It looks like it was broken before I bought the car - because the fresh bits that broke off didn't have any oil covering surface of the thread but the other parts that were broken off were well coated in oil.

[seventytwo]

Have not heard of it happening, the oil inlet is quite wide and screened so it should not block the oil pump , but I decided not to take the chance and took the rocker cover off.

[Stink]

I have a t-shirt ya can borrow

[blackxr6turbo]

I can loan 2 rear seats, that way drinks can be consumed

[EvilDaifu]

Hi Guys,

linemup has answered my call for help and I am going to pick up a cap from him tonight

Also spoke with deek and he reckons the little piece will just go down into my sump and the oil filter should stop anything from circulating around and fouling things up. I will keep a cautious ear on things though.

Thanks guys for your response to my post - linemup, seventytwo, blackxrturbo, paulie2256

Edited 06/02/10 11:23 AM by EvilDaifu

[blackxr6turbo]

great news!!!!

[Adam]

I wouldn't be so sure Gary.

Are the pieces even small? Looks like a good part of the thread missing.

It's highly possible they're just sitting around the valve train.

I'd be getting the rocker cover off and cleaning them out.

[F6turbo]

If the bits of plastic make their way down to the sump and that's a bit IF. It wont get through the oil screen in the pick up but if it does it still has to go through the oil pump before getting to the oil filter. However if it gets in contact with moving parts in there I dont think it would do much harm and just get broken down. Take the rocker cover off and have a look in there, its not that hard to take off.