1991 Eagle Talon parked perpindicular to the street with the nose hanging out over a curb while I lay in the street, in a spot where someone's car has been leaking transmission fluid, in 9 degree temperatures, 20mph wind and a dusting of snow, in pitch dark.
Worst location/condition you've changed oil in....
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Originally Posted By: Jim Allen
Laying under a Jimmy 6-110 in five inches of bilge water with rotting baby eel corpses.
Wow.. that visual is just wrong...
Laying under a Jimmy 6-110 in five inches of bilge water with rotting baby eel corpses.
Wow.. that visual is just wrong...
Originally Posted By: Max_Wander
... laughing like a chinese stereotype wearing plastic bags as hats......
Huh? I've never seen Chinese do that.
... laughing like a chinese stereotype wearing plastic bags as hats......
Huh? I've never seen Chinese do that.
Changed the gearbox oil in a tail rotor assembly on a Huey up in Alpena in febuary. -5*F air temp and a 50 mph wind chill. That sucked. I dont think I got a drop to go into the catch pan. The oil atomized in the wind as soon as it came out.
In 1976, I had a 1957 Dodge Cornet slant-six that was burning 1qt/week. My location was Boston in late fall. I put in a can of oil thickner and oil consumption dropped noticably, for one day. Unfortunately it also clogged the pick-up, or so I thought. The oil pressure light went on.
So I jacked up the engine to drop the pan and clean the pick-up. Cold fall day in a parking lot of my company, rain falling hard, and I was at the bottom on the lot so about 75' of parking was draining on to me.
I drove home that night and things were fine until next morning, light on again.
That was my first lesson about oil additives.
So I jacked up the engine to drop the pan and clean the pick-up. Cold fall day in a parking lot of my company, rain falling hard, and I was at the bottom on the lot so about 75' of parking was draining on to me.
I drove home that night and things were fine until next morning, light on again.
That was my first lesson about oil additives.
Originally Posted By: FZ1
Under fire in Bosnia.
And I bet you still did a better job of it than most quick lube type shops!
Under fire in Bosnia.
And I bet you still did a better job of it than most quick lube type shops!
I change my oil every year in my err dirt err mud err hard frozen snow covered driveway (no garage). Oh by the way last year we were -20 for three weeks with lows of -30 looking forward to winter 
The wind is a factor that can leave a huge mess for those of use who work in the driveway, not the garage. Put the car up on ramps, let it drain. Come back a few minutes later & the wind sprayed the latter-drained oil all over the place. Combine the wind with the winter cold...then is when I ask myself: "I wonder if it's worth doing this in winter time at all?"
I make sure I change the oil when at least the wind isn't a factor.
I make sure I change the oil when at least the wind isn't a factor.
oh not an oil change but my buddy has wintered over in Antarctica for 3 years. He did maintenance electrical.... they prepare you a bit, summers are 30-60 below zero and they sleep in tents then and work on the new dome they are constructing. come winter (9 months) you come in at the end of summer once winter starts about a month after getting there the temps then really drop 60-160 below zero ! the planes can no longer fly, so no matter what you are stuck there for 7 months minimum. they do stay inside the dome, when working outside they have to have a hot box which is kept around 0-30 below. You work 5 minutes and spend 15 minutes in the hot box. Clayton says it was really tough and slow work. They did use snowmobiles if it was 100 below or warmer, a rider had to drive it constantly though to keep the engine running and the track from freezing to the tunnel of the sled. He is one 0f 5 to make it three winters, he will never go back.....
Well aside from the snowy parking lot oil changes,
The worst O/C ever had to be at our old house. We had a concrete pad beside the house that was covered in dirt. I had no cover, and no choice, because I had to be at the track in the afternoon. by the time I put the car up on stands it was raining heavily, the pad was covered in mud. Basically laid in the mud and rain changing the oil. Not a long job, but not a pleasent one either.
The worst O/C ever had to be at our old house. We had a concrete pad beside the house that was covered in dirt. I had no cover, and no choice, because I had to be at the track in the afternoon. by the time I put the car up on stands it was raining heavily, the pad was covered in mud. Basically laid in the mud and rain changing the oil. Not a long job, but not a pleasent one either.
First, a "Jimmy 6-110" is a General Motors (predating the Detroit Diesel name) 6-cylinder diesel that displaced 110 cubic inches per cylinder (6-110, get it?). They are long out of production (last was 1954 IIRC).
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The aforementioned 6-110s powered the generators on an Army vessel I served aboard. They held some 25 gallons of oil and the crankcases were plumbed to a waste oil system with a pump. Normally, it was an easy change... except that the drain valve was jammed/broken on the one generator, so we had to dismantle the plumbing and valve, collect the oil from under the engine (in buckets), then replace the drain valve. It was messey enough trying to catch the oil while removing a valve and a pipe nipple but it was complicated by something worse. Unfortunately, we had just had the bizarre experience of finding thousands of baby eels clogging one of our sea chests, essentially a box welded to the inside of the hull and used in this case to connect the cooling water inlet pipes to the generators. We had eight generators and when they began overheating, we found the eels had clogged the screens in the sea chest, almost stopping the flow of water. In the process of cleaning the screens, lots of them had oozed into the bilges, died in the oily bilgewater and gotten quite rank by the time I was "elected" to crawl under the deckplates to drain the oil and replace the valve. The PTSD continues!
The Rest of the Story:
The aforementioned 6-110s powered the generators on an Army vessel I served aboard. They held some 25 gallons of oil and the crankcases were plumbed to a waste oil system with a pump. Normally, it was an easy change... except that the drain valve was jammed/broken on the one generator, so we had to dismantle the plumbing and valve, collect the oil from under the engine (in buckets), then replace the drain valve. It was messey enough trying to catch the oil while removing a valve and a pipe nipple but it was complicated by something worse. Unfortunately, we had just had the bizarre experience of finding thousands of baby eels clogging one of our sea chests, essentially a box welded to the inside of the hull and used in this case to connect the cooling water inlet pipes to the generators. We had eight generators and when they began overheating, we found the eels had clogged the screens in the sea chest, almost stopping the flow of water. In the process of cleaning the screens, lots of them had oozed into the bilges, died in the oily bilgewater and gotten quite rank by the time I was "elected" to crawl under the deckplates to drain the oil and replace the valve. The PTSD continues!
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
I make sure I change the oil when at least the wind isn't a factor.
I agree! I don't mind the cold but wind is another story; I don't want to find 1,000 droplets of oil all over my driveway when I come back outside after letting it drain for an hour.
In the winter, my preferences are: dry driveway, and no wind. I consider a snowpacked, icy driveway as "dry" as long as its cold enough my body heat doesn't melt the ice.
I make sure I change the oil when at least the wind isn't a factor.
I agree! I don't mind the cold but wind is another story; I don't want to find 1,000 droplets of oil all over my driveway when I come back outside after letting it drain for an hour.
In the winter, my preferences are: dry driveway, and no wind. I consider a snowpacked, icy driveway as "dry" as long as its cold enough my body heat doesn't melt the ice.
Wind is a big PIA, even slight breezes are a pain. I have 2 old sheets of paneling, I drive the car over the paneling, put the drain pan in place and drain the oil over the paneling. Anything that drips, blows, what-ever is stopped by the paneling. I try to avoid changing oil in bad weather, its usually a battery, starter, or some other PIA part that goes when the weather is bad.
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