Hose burst, Oil everywhere?

Sepacal

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Hey everyone, thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.

I have a 1990 v6 4x4 with a ton of miles, but it's run like a champ for the 4-5 years I've owned it. On my way home from work today I started to notice a funny smell, and then I lost a lot of power and smoke started pouring out from under the truck as I drove. I pulled over and turned it off, opened the hood, and there was oil pretty much everywhere. I could hear air rushing out of somewhere, under closer inspection, there is a small hose that has a hole in it .. but I can't tell if that is the cause of this or a result. Please let me know if you would need any more details to diagnose this problem, I really need my truck and as you can probably tell .. I'm no mechanic!

Fingers crossed that it's something simple and hopefully cheap!
 
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Without pictures, I would assume since it is a hose with a hole, it would be a power steering hose that busted and spewed.
 
Did your oil light come one? Pictures would be great. There are a lot of small hoses under the hood.

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Best thing to do? Clean everything. Everything. With a strong de greaser. Then have some one start the truck and you try to watch where its coming from.

Check all your fluid levels, Ps fluid, engine oil, tranny fluid, coolant... Are any of them low?
 

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