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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Bob696 on October 16, 2005, 21:32:45

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: Bob696 on October 16, 2005, 21:32:45

I am under the 90 to let out 750ml of oil so I can slick 50 it.

I have my 1 Lt jug and spanner handy

I undo the plug and


Drop the damn thing

Jug is under and quickly fills up ...no sign of drain plug

I put my finger in hole to stop the flow ...still no sign of drain plug.

So there I am, stuck under landy with finger in the drain hole. Karen is out shopping and still no sign of drain plug.

I went through all sorts of contortions over the next couple of minutes trying to find that damn plug.

Found it eventualy ...in the bottom of the damn jug!

All in all I only lost about 250ml of oil over me and the drive.

I think that the little dutch boy who stuck his finger in the dyke had the right idea  :D

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: Paul on October 16, 2005, 21:34:40

/me wipes the beer off the monitor  :lol:

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: beast5680 on October 16, 2005, 21:41:47

cheers mate just choked on a biscuit :lol:

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: Xtremeteam on October 16, 2005, 21:47:29

ive done that on a ramp into the big oil drainer & it has ribbs to catch the drain plu etc But when the oil landed it hit one of the ribs just braw to spray a whole 3 litres of ATF over me & the underside of the motor & the floor,not mutch landed in the drainer    :evil:

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: hobbit on October 16, 2005, 22:39:07

Times like this you think, wonder if I could fit drain taps on the flamin' thing? :wink:  :lol:

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: The Fat Controller on October 16, 2005, 22:58:56

:(biglaugh):  :(biglaugh):  :(biglaugh):
it always sounds better when you hear of it happening to someone else.

we've all got out from under a ramp washed in diff oil and even after baths and showers still smell of it for days

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: TULL on October 16, 2005, 23:53:17

shouldnt need to drain it, it should flow on its own, your landie has a fault :lol:

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: NeilWilson on October 17, 2005, 08:55:13

The first time I ever changed the oil on my first car, Cortina GLX, many years ago,  I managed to get an axle stand in the way so I could not get the drain pan under the oil flow.  It looked like some supertanker accident had happened down our road.  I was out there with a bottle of fairy liquid & a brush & loads of newspapers trying to clear it all up before my parents got home.  Cheers.

Neil

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: Wanderer on October 17, 2005, 16:45:40

I bet you're glad you hadn't warmed it up first.

I decided to check my transfer box level on the way back from Wales.
Don't ask. I was having problems and losing oil and I'd only remembered that it needed to be checked when I'd got half way home.

It was HOT!!!!!!!!
And it had expanded or didn't need topping up.
I've never moved my hand away so fast.

Title: Imagin the scene
Post by: thermidorthelobster on October 17, 2005, 17:38:18

Thought I'd check the oil level in the rear transfer box on the 101, at one of the shows, as it had been losing quite a bit of oil.

Plug comes out, drops on the floor, oil pours out all over my shoulder.  Evidently it had been overfilled  :x

Get the finger in the dyke (so to speak), jockey the plug around with spare hand, get it in, tighten it up.

Then find the bloody washer on the grass underneath it...  So had to take the plug out again, get sprayed with oil again, get the washer on the plug, plug back in, etc!