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Originally posted by Thomas Owen
There was a funny story here a few years back. Someone had always managed to spill oil during the oil change. Pan not positioned right, hot oil, shooting out like a fire hose with the drain plug rolling down the driveway toward the street....

Anyway, after 3 times changing the oil with some kind of spillage he finally managed to do it without spilling a drop. Called his wife out to witness the clean garage floor, and with her looking on, he backed the car out and over the 2 spare five quart containers of oil still sitting in the driveway.

The resulting explosion of oil covered their driveway and part of the neighbors house.

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Re: First oil change - Not my best day

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Originally posted by JeffreyNMemphis
I picked up the bolt, metal piece, spring and cap to put to go back into the engine case and the cap fell off and dropped into my oil drain pan (which is one of those one that is sealed with a hole too small for the drain plug to fall in, but not the cap of whatever it was I had mistakenly taken out. I got my biggest spaghetti pot and starting pouring the oil from the draining pan and glanced over to see the little cap thing sitting next to a rag. It had not fallen into the oil after all... So, now I have one more mess to clean up from the spaghetti pot that was not necessary.

If you learn anything at all from this it should be that at this point....BACK AWAY FROM THE CAR.

Go have a beer, play with the kids,....ANYTHING but work on the car. Your head is not in the game. Believe me, I speak from agonozing experience.

In the future, lay out a large piece of cardboard under the catch bucket. I use a large, sturdy square Tupperware container that will hold oil from each thing to be drained, but not all 11-12 quarts. Do the hole in the filter trick (do a search if necessary). It helps. I keep a lot of spray brake cleaner on hand for cleanup. Works pretty well on small driveway spots. It will help break up bigger spills too. By your 3rd or 4th oil change you'll be a pro.

There's a "steering wheel cover thread"? And it's better than this?

Hey Jeffrey...as they say, comedy is based in tradgedy...sorry it was you this time. However we ALL have been in your position at one time or another.
My stupid story is I wanted to rebuild a carb on my girlfriends datsunb210. looked easy that tiny little thing.
Well, it never ran right after the rebuild...worse than before the "expert rebuild. It would start, run OK but to accelerate was sluggish...I remember saying, now what, it cant be the carb. I just rebuilt it.
long story short...this almost cooked my friendship with my mechanic...I was trying to save a few bucks...turned out when I took the carb apart I faintly remember hearing a ting/plop sound. Turns out that was the accelerator steel ball that was not in the rebuild kit and I had no left over parts! Duoooooooooo!
That taught me to ALWAYS use a manual and read up on the task at hand BEFORE jumoing in unless I have done it before.
Best of luck and thanks for sharing that with us!
Bob

A friends do it yourself lesson

An old friend was about to take a road trip in his Bronco for the weekend. He stopped in one of those quick change oil joints and was soon on his way. Short time later his motor sounded like a deisel and was running hot. Missing drain plug.

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Originally posted by LarryP
There's a "steering wheel cover thread"? And it's better than this?

Yep! It was mine. One of those crazy cornbone ideas I get from time to time - (dad was an oldtimey hot rodder).

But, as you will see in the latter part of the thread, I took a drive with the top down and I am now recovering (ahem, pun intended) nicely. Phew... A fun read anyway... Enjoy:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/336731-so-what-do-womens-boots-steering-wheels-have-common.html

I just completed mu 1st oil change and everything went well.

First I warmed up the car to operating temperature.

Then I used a Pela Oil extractor to pull about 5 quarts from the oil tank and at the same time I draided the oil from the motor. My SC has the sump so there was no worry about opening the relief valve spring.

I used an oil pan with the large screened opening that holds about 8 quarts and it slid under the car with plenty of clearance.

After the extractor pulled all it could I drained the remaining 3 quarts into the pan (Baffles blocked the hose from reaching the bottom) then reinstalled the plugs with new washers.

I used a long funnel that has a flexible hose to pour 8 quarts of oil and then took the car for a relaxing drive until it reached operating temp.

Back in the garage I kept adding oil until the dipstick reached the midway point. I think it was an additions 2 1/2 quarts for a total of 10 1/2 quarts.

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