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Ever forget to put some oil on the oil filter seal before spinnin' back on?
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Funny things that happen while working on your car...
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Ahh geez I guess everyone else is expert mechanics but not me so I'll share my mechanicing opps.
When I got my first car, I had to change the oil and what not myself. Since I don't come from a fix-it family I had to go get one of the Field manuals for cars. Did a good job on changing the oil too but since it was a very much used car, I changed the spark plugs also. Oh the book taught me about gaps for spark plugs, so I went and bought that little tool and the four spark plugs. Everything went great and I was pretty proud for teaching myself how to do the most basic of car maint. jobs. So every 3000 or so miles I changed the oil, oil filter, air filter, and spark plugs...just like I did the first time...
When I got my first car, I had to change the oil and what not myself. Since I don't come from a fix-it family I had to go get one of the Field manuals for cars. Did a good job on changing the oil too but since it was a very much used car, I changed the spark plugs also. Oh the book taught me about gaps for spark plugs, so I went and bought that little tool and the four spark plugs. Everything went great and I was pretty proud for teaching myself how to do the most basic of car maint. jobs. So every 3000 or so miles I changed the oil, oil filter, air filter, and spark plugs...just like I did the first time...
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Ahh geez I guess everyone else is expert mechanics but not me so I'll share my mechanicing opps.
When I got my first car, I had to change the oil and what not myself. Since I don't come from a fix-it family I had to go get one of the Field manuals for cars. Did a good job on changing the oil too but since it was a very much used car, I changed the spark plugs also. Oh the book taught me about gaps for spark plugs, so I went and bought that little tool and the four spark plugs. Everything went great and I was pretty proud for teaching myself how to do the most basic of car maint. jobs. So every 3000 or so miles I changed the oil, oil filter, air filter, and spark plugs...just like I did the first time...
It certainly gives new meaning to the expression.... "regular maintenance"
I remember doing an oil change on a 1976 Ford F150 with the 300 inline 6. When I changed the oil filter I did not notice that the rubber gasket from the old filter had remained stuck on the engine block. I then screwed the new one on top of the old gasket.
I went for a test drive down the dead end road about 3 miles long. Near the end down by the lake I saw smoke coming out of the hood and then the oil light came on ( of course these things only happen on the far end of these dead end roads when nobody is around). Shut off the engine and noticed oil all over everything under the hood and on closer inspection I noticed that the oil filter gasket had popped out.
Long walk home. I picked up the old oil filter and noticed the lack of the gasket and realized what had happened. In the end I was lucky as the engine starter had to engage a couple of times due to a slightly siezed but not totally seized engine. There was not one drop of oil in the engine after it had all sprayed out.
Afterwards the old ford ran just fine. Lesson learned; double check one's work each time.
I went for a test drive down the dead end road about 3 miles long. Near the end down by the lake I saw smoke coming out of the hood and then the oil light came on ( of course these things only happen on the far end of these dead end roads when nobody is around). Shut off the engine and noticed oil all over everything under the hood and on closer inspection I noticed that the oil filter gasket had popped out.
Long walk home. I picked up the old oil filter and noticed the lack of the gasket and realized what had happened. In the end I was lucky as the engine starter had to engage a couple of times due to a slightly siezed but not totally seized engine. There was not one drop of oil in the engine after it had all sprayed out.
Afterwards the old ford ran just fine. Lesson learned; double check one's work each time.
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I had that happen a time or so also but what gave me more trouble was the canister filters back in the 1950s,early '60s cars,if you didn't remember to take the first gasket out and installed the second gasket,it doesn't leak quite as bad as 2 gaskets on a spin on.