I put the wrong filter on a car once. After starting it I heard a splashing
sound when I walked around to look under, as I always do and found oil
pouring out of my running engine. Unfortunately, this episode pales on
comparison to a recent one.
I change the oil on several cars at once, starting with an empty 5 gallon
pail for the dirty oil. Yeah, you can see where this is going. As I
finished car 3 or 4, the pail was getting pretty full and it was starting to
rain. The car was on ramps, half into the court, so I gathered up my tools
and everything except the dirty oil pail. Yeah, if you missed it before,
you know now. I hopped in the car and got it off the ramps. As I turned
the car, I caught the 5 gallon pail with the bumper, dumping it in the
street. I sent my wife to the store for 100 pounds of kitty litter and
called the fire department, as it is a toxic spill and we're quite green
here in WA. The firemen were pretty happy with my containment, but I sure
felt foolish. The neighbors, who have a distain for my excessive number of
cars anyway and public wrenching, all legal with the HOA, were not pleased.
I sure hope I never spill 4 gallons of dirty oil in the street again. Not
fun.
Jack
From: <n197tr4@cs.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:53 PM
Subject: [Fot] My TR3A has a 12 quart sump.
> I do dumb stuff sometimes....of course.
>
> A couple of weeks ago I started to prepare the TR3A for an oil change.
>
> Today, I carefully replaced the filter and filter body.
>
> Thinking I had already drained the pan, I poured 6 quarts of oil in the
engine
> and checked the dipstick.
>
> Nope, that cant be right. The oil is dirty looking and reads high on the
> dipstick.
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