[OleDutchD]

Changed the oil on the '72 yesterday. After draining and refilling the crankcase w/ Mobil-1 5W/30 and spinning on the new filter, I hopped in and hit the key. Soon as the pressure hit 30 psi ..... BOOOSH! Oil everywhere.... broke out the cat litter to contain it. Cap'n Joe Hazelwood (Exxon Valdez) woulda been proud! Autopsy showed I missed the old filter gasket that was still stuck to the block!

Two hours of scooping, mopping and wiping, four quarts of fresh oil and only ONE filter gasket this time, and it pumped right up!

On the bright side of things,.... I do have a clean garage floor again and everything under the hood has a nice satin sheen to it, now!

Kevin

 

[FEandGoingBroke]

Sweet! Already thinking ahead on preserving that antique steel! Good man! HA ha ha ha ha ha ha

FE

 

[ShotRod64]

I made a heck of a mess one day with gas and oil doing the same kind of thing. First with the gasket on the fuel pump filter, forgot to put the gasket on, then 2 filters on the oil filter and seems like I did something one more time similar. I had to remove the oil filter to get the fuel filter off. By the time I was done I had a big ol mess on the ground!

Deb

 

[GMH351]

Oh yeah, over tightend the aluminum oil pressure extension tube and snapped it flush at the block. Not fun. My wife still gives me sh*t even when changing a light bulb and it's been over 5 years ago. What's that joke: like an elephant

 

[psivory]

Changed the oil, put fresh in, started the car to check for leaks, saw oil pouring from under the car, forgot to put the new filter on!!!! DUH!!!

 

[rjhauver]

This reminds me of a great one. My pops was always smoking while workin on the car-even while hangin his head over an open carb. He asked me to turn it over (i must've been 14 at the time, that was my main job). I watched as this inch and a half long ash was gettin ready to fall from the tip of his smoke as i turned it over. You can guess what happened as the carb took a shot a removing some eyebrows. The look on his face, priceless. I laugh about that to this day, and never smoke while adjusting carbs.

 

[psivory]

Oh yeah, this is a good one!
Dropped the oil pan to replace and put in a new oil pump. Couple hours later, tightened the last bolt on the pan (what a pain in the a**!)
Saw something on my bench that looked like an oil pump, must be the old one I thought, guess what, it wasn't!!! I took the old one out and forgot to put the new one in!!!

 

[MHumpy]

Many years ago my Dad and I were replacing the C-4 in my old 71 coupe, and no matter what we did, we couldn't seem to get the convertor bolts to line up and fit into the flex plate. We tried three or four times, pull the tranny out, measure it up...try again. Still no luck...so we pull it again and then look it over, everything seems okay (it should all fit, it is all the same items that came out originally for the rebuild). So we decide to break for lunch. After awhile we come out and try again and it slips right in with no trouble this time...so we bolt bellhousing in and then it's time to tackle the flexplate bolts...only to realize we left out the convertor

(I still for the life of me cannot figure out how we could be so absent minded and not realize the convertor was not in there!).
Of course my other favorite was when I replaced the points one time...couldn't figure out why the car wouldn't fire up...it would just crank and crank with no fire....then I saw the rotor sitting on the other fender

....makes you feel really stupid sometimes!!
My buddy had to one up me though, he rebuilt his engine and got it installed and ready to fire up...but couldn't get any oil pressure at all....til we found out he never installed his oil pump drive shaft!

Same friend was also very eager to drive his Camaro right fresh out of the paintshop...still didn't have any outside door handles (but the latches were there), bumpers or anything...including the hood latch...he felt the bailing wire he found would hold...until he hit about 60 miles an hour...and then the hood flew up, slammed into the windshield...messed up the hood, broke the winshield, and dented the roof a little...not to mention messing up a $2500 paint job!

Ahhhh the good ol' days!!
I could probably write a book with all the stupidity I've seen...and done in my youth (and currently too!)
Mike

 

[v8shadow]

I was a service writer at some rinky dink buick dealership in my local area in 97. I had 2-3 oil change techs under me. Well, I was in charge so I got the crap from the boss if things went wrong. So, I told this kid; "Make sure you dont forget the oil filter". They resented how attentive to detail I was and got rebellious at times. He answered me twice after I told him twice; "I TOOK CARE OF IT, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!" I don't want to beat a dead horse, so I back off, even though I saw no method to his madness (no consistency, new filter laying far away from work area). Oil change is done. He starts it up and we got an instant replay of Exxon Valdez!! Oil spewing from under the car. Guess what.......no oil filter on the engine! I got a good victorious "I told you so" chuckle out of it, the kid learned a lesson, and the customer got a free engine oil flush out of the deal.