Yesterday i was driving and all of a sudden I heard this clatter, almost like the sound of "starting fluid ping", then a huge cloud of white smoke came out the tailpipe. She kept running and oil pressure did not plummet, so I drove her 2 miles slowly, and when I parked she left a huge puddle of oil. Opening up the air filter, I see it is saturated and the filter housing is soaked. The long breather tube seems to be dripping oil also, the one that goes in the top of the air filter housing. (from the vacuum pump?)

What do you folks think happened?

I should mention that she has been super hard to shut off lately, like when the shutoff solenoid went last time.

Vacuum pump failure?

I need to drive her some, is there a way to plug a line or something so she doesn't suffer radical oil loss, or pour it all into the air filter, till I get her where she needs to go?

Yikes!

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