How to change oil the "right way"

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I think you guys might like this.


1) Wait until Saturday, drive to auto parts store and buy a case of oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scented tree. Write a check for $50.00.

2) Stop by 7-11 and buy a case of beer, write a check for $20.00, drive home.

3) Open a beer and drink it.

4) Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.

5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.

6) In frustration, open another beer and drink it.

7) Place drain pan under engine.

8) Look for 9/16 box end wrench.

9) Give up and use crescent wrench.

10) Unscrew drain plug.

11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil, splash hot oil on you in process. Cuss.

12) Crawl out from under car to wipe oil off of face and arms. Throw kitty litter on spilled oil.

13) Have another beer while watching oil drain.

14) Spend 30 minutes looking for oil filter wrench.

15) Give up; crawl under car and hammer a screwdriver through oil filter and twist off.

16) Crawl out from under car with dripping oil filter splashing oil everywhere from holes. Cleverly hide old oil filter among trash in trash can to avoid environmental penalties. Drink a beer.

17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Decide to finish oil change tomorrow so you can go see his new garage door opener.

18) Sunday: Skip church because "I gotta finish the oil change." Drag pan full of old oil out t from underneath car. Cleverly dump oil in hole in back yard instead of taking it back to recycle.

19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18.

20) Beer? No, drank it all yesterday.

21) Walk to 7-11; buy beer.

22) Install new oil filter, making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface.

23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.

24) Remember drain plug from step 11.

25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.

26) Remember that used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard, along with the drain plug.

27) Drink beer.

28) Shovel out hole and sift oily mud for drain plug. Re-shovel oily dirt into hole. Steal sand from kid's sandbox to cleverly cover oily patch of ground and avoid environmental penalties. Wash drain plug in lawnmower gas.

29) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor. Throw kitty litter on oil spill.

30) Drink beer.

31) Crawl under car getting kitty litter into eyes. Wipe eyes with oily rag used to clean drain plug. Slip with stupid crescent wrench tightening drain plug and bang knuckles on frame.

32) Bang head on floorboards in reaction to step 31.

33) Begin cussing fit.

34) Throw stupid crescent wrench.

35) Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December (1982) in the left boob.

36) Beer.

37) Clean up hands and forehead and bandage as required to stop blood flow.

38) Beer.

39) Beer.

40) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.

41) Beer.

42) Lower car from jack stands.

43) Accidentally crush remaining case of new motor oil.

44) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during steps 23-43.

45) Beer.

46) Test drive car.

47) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence.

48) Car gets impounded.

49) Call loving wife, make bail.

50) 12 hours later, get car from impound yard.

** Money spent: Parts-$50.00, DUI-$2500.00, Impound fee $75.00, Bail-$1500.00, Beer-$40.00.

**Total--$4165.00, but you know the job was done right.
 
Nice. That's how it seems to go when changing the oil sometimes. Especially when crawling around underneath a jacked up car with no room to work. Seriously though, if I ever see someone bury used oil in their backyard I am going to twist their nose off with my Snap On 12mm wrench.
 
There's a second part of this joke, about women changing their oil. Something like:

1) Drive car to Jiffy Lube.

2) Wait 20 minutes for oil change

3) drink coffee

4) Write check for $35

5) Leave

Total costs: $35

This part would go right before the man's oil change.
 
I agree with you AcuraTech. I had a guy that I worked with that lived by a lake and told me he dumpted his oil in the backyard.

He said he won't be around to realize the effects of it. We both worked in an auto shop at the time?????? He could have brought it to work for free.

I have a roll away that prevents most of the malidies you describe. Not counting DUIs.
 
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Originally posted by oilboy123:
I had a guy that I worked with that lived by a lake and told me he dumpted his oil in the backyard.

He said he won't be around to realize the effects of it. We both worked in an auto shop at the time?????? He could have brought it to work for free.


Your friend..to be honest, makes me sick. You should report him.
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Is this a script form The Simpsons?
If not it should be.
Add a "DUH" here and there and you'll make $$$$.
I'll take 10 % for the idea.. ok?

Great Story
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I noticed a long time ago that where I spilled oil on the grass it killed a small area but around that area the grass grew much greener and taller. This makes me think that if the oil was emulsified with the right amount of water and sprayed on the lawn it would act as a fertilizer and be completely consumed by the grass roots. Never took the time to try and work it out.
 
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Originally posted by oilboy123:
I agree with you AcuraTech. I had a guy that I worked with that lived by a lake and told me he dumpted his oil in the backyard.


heh, just like my grandpa told me he used to change his oil in the machine shed....no drain plan used, just pulled the plug and drained it on the ground!!!


I guess he thought since it came out of the ground, it could go right back in it.
 
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Originally posted by PulMax:
There's a second part of this joke, about women changing their oil. Something like:

1) Drive car to Jiffy Lube.

2) Wait 20 minutes for oil change

3) drink coffee

4) Write check for $35

5) Leave

Total costs: $35

This part would go right before the man's oil change.


6) Call roadside assistance when VW or Audi belly pan falls off on freeway or when transmission seizes because they originally opened the tranny drain plug and lost some ATF before they realized their mistake.

7) Call roadside assistance when engine seizes because the oil gradually dripped out after the *-Lube tech. cross-threaded the plug or forgot to torque the filter.
 
I liked the time when Wal-Mart TLE double gasket'ed an oil filter. The guy lost all of his oil by the time he rounded the service bay. Had to push his car back in. The guy was laughing his face off - manager gave him a few free oil changes.

I think I'll change my own oil, thank you.
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That's never been posted on here before?? Wow!

It's funny and very true in some cases, but that email has been around forever.

As for burying oil or pouring it out, the next time you see a fence row with no grass growing along it I can almost guarantee you it wasn't done with Round-up.
 
Great posts guys, especially appreciated by us over 50
guys who have suffered some of these indignities, etc.
over the years.
 
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