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Yay!Gurrr

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For those of you that know everything...

I'm not one of you :D

I learned yesterday that oil will leak out of an oil pan if the drain plug isnt tight.. Yes its true...

When I installed my new oil pan some 4 months ago, it never accured to me to check that the pre-installed drain plug was tight.. SO after filling the motor with oil 2 nights ago, I went out last night to see 1/2 of it in a wide reaching ever increasng puddle under the jeep... Its amazing how far 2 quarts of oil will spread...

me = dumbass
 
It's a JEEP ! you worry when they STOP LEAKING !!! :flipoff2:

No worries, I've done near the same thing, and as far as not tightening my own drain plug on my own junk during an oil change ( remembered shortly afterward, no harm done, just got distracted, and was pretty unhappy with myself )

I think the theory of source VS mess is exponential, magnified by the lack of convieniant method of clean-up ( mop close by, small mess, mop on other side of shop, mess travels too meet it )

Kevin
 
Hey once I pulled off the stock oil PSU on my 'runner to "upgrade" to the SR5 style, aparently the 22r has some "extra" holes on that side that aren't punched through... anyway I screwed it back into the wrong one and didn't know until I cranked it... boy was a mess that made on the driveway!! Every time I see the stain I think, "Dumba$$..."
 
I think the epa says you have to dig up your driveway about 5 feet, cover the infected area with sand, then burn off the sand... bag up the removed soil, and take it to advance auto.

my wife will never let me live this down... (off the oil topic) one weekend i was getting ready to drive to PA for the weekend, but i needed to do the brakes on both my YJ and her car.. so i did them both at the same time.. to..well save time. So I finish up. hop in the jeep and head north.. Oooooh about 3 miles up the highway my Left front tire decided it didnt wanna be on the jeep any longer. Apparently the Dumb-ss who did the brakes (me) forgot to re tighten the lugs so it took them exactly 4 miles to come loose and send my 31" 10.50 screaming across a divided 3 lanes of highway.. missing (barely) a bunch of cars and rolling 1/2 mile down the road. Lucky for me no one was hit.. and no damage to the Yj.. only my pride when I got dropped of at the place my was was tanning to say hun can you take me to advance so i can buy new lug nuts. Now everytime i do the brakes...she brings it up. "Is the tire going to stay on this time?"
 
Was dropping the stock tranny pan on the CTD.. decided I'd use a tranny jack (scissor type) as not to make a mess while dropping the full pan.

Well, I missed one bolt... started lowering the jack, and thought something was odd when the jack was real easy to turn, like there was no weight on it... Right about then, BANG!!
The bond between the pan and the tranny gave, but since it was still held on with one bolt, it just tipped down at the end, dumping 3 quarts of ATF all over the garage floor and the tranny jack. Damn that stuff spreads!

Then there was the time I was welding the spiders in my spare third member, and some brake clean had settled into some water/degreaser, and when I hit it with the welder, it lit... Well, not knowing the pinion end had a bunch of that now flaming cocktail sitting in it, I simply turned the third member pinion up, so it would snuff itself out...

Out comes the flaming cocktail, which now makes a 3 foot circle of flaming liquid on my garage floor with a third member in the middle, and the circle is growing... Oh well, time for the Halon extinguisher to earn its keep.. One quick shot snuffed it out. Such a quick shot, the pressure gauge didn't even move, and it still weighs as full.. :)

Or there's the unintentional spraypaint can paint grenade.. that stain is still on the floor...
 
Oil Filter

Good Subject...Make sure the rubber gasket comes off the block from the previous filter...one time I changed oil and didn't check and I was outside in the dark w/ flashlight...nice shop ehhh...anyhow put the new filter on and oil in it, cranked it up and pumped oil everywhere....it only took a second and shut off motor...so check everything....motors ain't cheap...oil filters & oil is...well was...before Katrina...


Later,

:driver:
 
Haha Rich yer story reminds me of another. My bro-in-law was replacing the auto trannny filter in his Eclipse in my garage, classic pan-style. After jacking it up and getting all the bolts off, pan was stuck on there good. couldn't break it loose, tried whacking w/ rubber mallet, crowbar etc. Out of frustration I climbed under it w/ a crowbar to try a new angle.
Of course all at once it just pops free and duba$$ me, I'm laying directly under it. Yep, there's a lot of fluid in there, I think I could taste it for a week afterwards. Wife was pretty pissed at the trail of fluid I left from my dripping clothes when came in to clean up....
 
Ok, so there was this time way in the past when I changed the oil and filters on the Detroit 8V-71 in one of our farm trucks, forgot to re-install the dry-sump vent tube, cranked the engine, left it idling while I went to take a dump. While I dumped, it dumped, 16 gallons and 1 qt of oil minus the 2.5 gallons the filters hold. Luckily for my teenybopper dumbass, the low oil pressure switch actually worked and shut the fuel solenoid off, saving the engine and my ass. Took me over a week to clean up the ground though.
 
With almost 30 years of bending wrenches, I got plenty of dum-bass stories.

One recent one.
Jut put the front driveshaft back in. Using the stick the big craftsman screwdriver through the yoke to hold shaft still while I tighten the bolts method.

Go to back the Jeep out and it moves about 6" and stops dead in it's tracks. More gas - still no move.
Hmmm???? [head scratch] put in 4 low. to see if it is a T/C problem. Still no move. Darn - more gas.
Loud BANG. Jeep moves nice and easy now.

WTF !?!?!?!

Lesson learned:

Remove screwdriver from driveshaft before attempting to move vehicle. Lest it wedges it self against leaf spring and acts like driveshaft e-brake.

DOH !!!!!!!!!

Side note: Sears replaced the screwdriver. Which was taken in to the store in 3 pieces.
 
wbcarver said:
Darn - more gas. Loud BANG. Jeep moves nice and easy now.
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Well this happen back in High School Auto Shop I was changing tranny fluid and we had a the truck up on the lift and were drainning the fluid into a special pan on a adjustable stand. Well We had forgot to tighten the screw the locked the post in place and it waited untill the pan was complety full of tranny fluid to come loose. The whole pan slid down and crashed to the floor sending about 2 gallons of ATF all over me the instructor and some classmates and the rest on the floor.
 
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