Ist oil change DONE!!

[houndman]

Thanks Guys !!

It wasn't as bad as I've read it could be, since the filter came off
fairly easy, with a bottom cup tool, but things I read on the forum,
Helped a Lot, especially for a mentally and physically dinged up guy
like me, coming from an 86' Chevy. I was worried I might get stuck or
screw something up and have to get it towed to a garage, which really
would have dented my ego, and I thought about getting it done, But I
LOVE a challenge, even though it takes me forever to get things don
now, and I pay a heavy price with fatigue and pain, and usually my
butt is dragging the ground, long before I get all done, clean
everything and put it away, but I feel I conquered another Everest.

Oil pain bolt was pretty tough, and the gasket was stuck from the
paint, which I read here, or may have forgot it, and it was hard
reading the pointer on my torque wrench in the position I was in. It
helped a lot that the filter was high, and the drain plug was low the
way people have to park around here, on a narrow 2 lane street with 2
wheels on the pavement. Having to use the jack for the first time to
lift the body higher, to see where the filter had to go, because I
couldn't feel it with the tool and extension. I didn't appreciate the
oil pouring down the tools and my hands , and had to find the location
to put the jack, and it wasn't where I thought it should be in the
manual, and I'm gona have to mark the ridges with white paint to make
it easier.

VF

 

[suburboturbo]

 Thanks Guys !!

It wasn't as bad as I've read it could be, since the filter came off
fairly easy, with a bottom cup tool, but things I read on the forum,
Helped a Lot, especially for a mentally and physically dinged up guy
like me, coming from an 86' Chevy. I was worried I might get stuck or
screw something up and have to get it towed to a garage, which really
would have dented my ego, and I thought about getting it done, But I
LOVE a challenge, even though it takes me forever to get things don
now, and I pay a heavy price with fatigue and pain, and usually my
butt is dragging the ground, long before I get all done, clean
everything and put it away, but I feel I conquered another Everest.

 Oil pain bolt was pretty tough,  and the gasket was stuck from the
paint, which I read here, or may have forgot it, and it was hard
reading the pointer on my torque wrench in the position I was in. It
helped a lot that the filter was high, and the drain plug was low the
way people have to park around here, on a narrow 2 lane street with 2
wheels on the pavement. Having to use the jack for the first time to
lift the body higher, to see where the filter had to go, because I
couldn't feel it with the tool and extension. I didn't appreciate the
oil pouring down the tools and my hands , and had to find the location
to put the jack, and it wasn't where I thought it should be in the
manual, and I'm gona have to mark the ridges with white paint to make
it easier.

  VF

I know well the feeling of starting a job and fearing that my physical
limitations may prevent me from finishing it and having to have
someone else complete it (for wasted time and big $$$ besides the ego
bruising). Glad to hear you followed it through. Some people tighten
those damn drain plugs as if they were holding up the whole car. Good
idea to mark the jack position for future reference. Best of luck
with future jobs.

 

[houndman]

I know well the feeling of starting a job and fearing that my physical
limitations may prevent me from finishing it and having to have
someone else complete it (for wasted time and big $$$ besides the ego
bruising). Glad to hear you followed it through. Some people tighten
those damn drain plugs as if they were holding up the whole car. Good
idea to mark the jack position for future reference. Best of luck
with future jobs.

thanks for the reply.

Guess you mean the marks for locating the jack on the rocker.
Thought you meant for height when oil changing.

I have a buddy who used to be an aircraft inspector and he uses the
term " Aircrafty" when things are done to reduce or avoid mistakes or
failures, like the right and left hand lug nuts that Chrys used to
have different on each side of the car, so the lugs would tighten from
the direction of tire rotation if loose. He questioned why the drain
plugs would be so tight, and make sure of the threads. the R&L's on C
cars used to make my dad buggy. Didn't help putting low miles on an
old car made the lugs hard to get off or installed with an impact
wrench.

I need to mark my pointer gauge on my torq wrench since the angle
made it hard to see.

Hearing that even the dealer can tighten things too tight made me
not want to go there, even though I wasn't getting to change it. It
will be easy from now on.

VF

 

[Rick Courtright]

I have a buddy who used to be an aircraft inspector and he uses the
term " Aircrafty" when things are done to reduce or avoid mistakes or
failures, like the right and left hand lug nuts that Chrys used to
have different on each side of the car, so the lugs would tighten from
the direction of tire rotation if loose.

Hi,

A former neighbor, retired mechanic, had a different term. He called it
"dungeoneering" when engineers were so isolated from the real world they
spent the company's R&D money solving non-existent problems. I've often
wondered why the left hand wheels on Fords, Chevies and most other makes
didn't fall off by the millions...

Rick

 

[houndman]

Hi,

A former neighbor, retired mechanic, had a different term. He called it
"dungeoneering" when engineers were so isolated from the real world they
spent the company's R&D money solving non-existent problems. I've often
wondered why the left hand wheels on Fords, Chevies and most other makes
didn't fall off by the millions...

Rick

don't know, but only time I had loose lugs they got looser as I drove.
They were acorn type that the threads were protected from the weather,
so maybe easier to rotate not being dirty or corroded.