Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project

Today was filled with more fun. Instead of going back to work after lunch I was greeted by mass quantities of oil all over the road. i looked under the hood and the whole left side of the engine bay was really shiny now and oily. I found the issue - the oil feed line going into the turbo. The turbo flange itself was not leaking but where the hose met the barb failed somehow and the hose was just spraying oil - lemme tell you - I definitly have some oil pressure because that stuff was all over the steering box, firewall, radiator - everything.

I now bought some new brass fittings and had to install them in the parking lot of the hardware store, then went to start the car and SNAP!!! The throttle cable blew apart. Lucky me I had those 2 throttle cables just in case I needed to reroute something which had a new end on it I can use (the end is what broke). Unlucky was the cables were at home - so I thought to connect a string to the throttle and route it under the hood and pull on it out the window - reminiscent of a time where my dad's wipers quit during a rainy day and we had to pull them manually -

But anyway, that didn't work - the string i had broke while getting cut on the hood - so I set the idle to about 1500rpm and then used the brakes to drive the mile home. Luckily it was all downhill.

Now I'm home, about to eat some lunch, have a new end on the cable that will work handsomely, and the oil leak is fixed. Unluckily I can't finish the project I was doing at work, so there goes half a day's pay - but since right now it's just me and my dad working on this restoration - I don't think he'll fire me. :D Plus I rescue him all the time when his POS breaks down - no questions asked "where are you? I'll be there in a sec." Unfortunately his pos is broke for good so this is the only car we got for supply runs so he understood. lol.

Now for the oil mess.