pasTTa

driving along tonight, heard a thud like driving over a brick, then a rattle, stopped, the noise stopped, limped it a block home and after pulling the covers off I found a small hole where it looks like there had been a plug pressed into the bottom of the engine block. ?????
its about 6" forward of the oil drain.
now my oil is all over town and my tt's underside plus there's this ~3/4" hole. what gives?
any info or knowledge would be greatly appreciated.

stilljester

You won't happen to have a pic? So the damaged part is on the oil pan?

OldSchool AG

"limped it home" as in drove with an idiot light illuminated?

Squirt-Tortuga

If there is no oil in the engine, it's not a good idea to drive the car. At all.

pasTTa

sorry, I see how it was confusing.
here are some pix:<ul><li><a href="http://public.fotki.com/pasTTa/">http://public.fotki.com/pasTTa/</a</li></ul>

pasTTa

I'm not that bad. It didn't leak much til I shut it off. then it poured out. probably lost 1/2 quart in the 2 blocks to my garage.
see pix in above msg.

OldSchool AG

unless i'm looking at the pics wrong (it is after midnight) this appears to be in your transmission

pasTTa

yep. and low viscosity (kind of dirty) oil ran out. just had the 60k in december and the 80k in feb.
I'm still confused too.

OldSchool AG

someone started to loosen that, then stopped when they realized it wasn't the oil drain. of course, they forgot to tighten it back up.

pasTTa

no threads in the hole.