[trackbird]

I decided to check my oil tonight (after seeing low coolant today and a 900 mile road trip last weekend). It was about a quart low (5K miles, better than usual). I go to the shelf and grab the 5 quart bottle of mobile 1 (my wifes car holds 3.2 quarts, so I usually have 1/2 a jug around or so). I start pouring it into the car when it hits me, this is used oil. Somehow, I put a jug of used oil on my shelf (and moved it to the new place, no less) and managed to add about 1/3 quart or so to my car tonight. It is mobile 1, it is probably out of my car, but I still feel pretty dumb for pulling that off.

Just thought I'd share the stupidity, somebody has to.

:stupid:

[slowTA]

I think the dumbest car thing I did was to try and swap my oil pan without pulling the motor. The old pan wasn't correct for the car so the front part was too low and it wouldn't slip out past the crossmember. In all of my infinite wisdom I decided to bend the front of the pan wtih vice grips. The new pan was obviously much shorter in that area. All was going well until the vice grips slipped... I drew a little blood, a bunch of pain but I got that damned oil pan out.

The worst part was that I wound up pulling the motor instead of putting the new pan on because I found a whole bunch of broken plastic in the pickup. Turns out the umbrella seals were crushed when I was having so much trouble setting up the valves.

Yeah... that was the weekend I should have stayed in bed.