Check your motor mounts. If the one on that side of the engine has collapsed, the belt will cut the hose. When I got the 84 SD for my daughter, the hose was wrapped with electricians tape where the belt was rubbing a hole in the hose. Both motor mounts had collapsed, and it was just a matter of time before someone ran it out of oil also.

I got my 84TD because the motor mount had collapsed and cut a hole in the hose. Don't know how they caught it before they damaged the engine, but they didn't want to spend the money to fix it, so sold the car. While I really like the size of the 123 bodies, the 126 and 116 bodies sure have more room under the hood to work on the engines. Threading the oil cooler line on the TD was much harder than on the SD.

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