By putting tape around the rag and using the rag as an impromtu filter the air pressure of the crank case vacuum will prevent the oil from saturating the rag.
Oil cap missing engine.
Get a new oil cap immediately.
The engine oil cap is one of those important things that people forget to put back on.
Either way the garage owes you an oil cap oil to top your engine off and they have to clean your engine engine compartment.
Then get an oil change.
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An engine oil cap keeps things safe and reduces the chances of loss.
The car might go some miles without any problem but the damages might cost you to fortune later.
An oil soaked rag under the hood is a great way to light your car on fire.
Very few cars if any will throw oil out that tube.
A missing oil cap will allow the engine s evaporative system to suck unfiltered air directly into the engine crankcase a surefire costly mistake.
And driving without oil cap is not safe at all.
Some friends of mine just arrived home to visit family for the holidays but discovered part way through the journey that the oil cap on their engine was missing.
They noticed when they stopped to have lunch and found oil dripping underneath the car from it being splashed around under the hood.
Those that do probably have a lot of blow by from bad rings.
As far as the under hood foam goes it is there primarily for sound insulation and doesn t pose a fire hazard as long as it is not hanging down onto the engine when the hood is closed.
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It probably got misplaced when they checked the oil level yesterday night.
The danger is the dust that gets in.