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ENGINE DAMAGE – Oil change gone horribly wrong!!

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Old Feb 18, 2014 | 10:01 PM
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Larry, if you'd like to learn a TON about engine oil...
Is a "TON" more or less than an assload?
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Old Feb 18, 2014 | 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by F1Addict
Is a "TON" more or less than an assload?
Imperial units really mess me up.

Metric shi*-tons please.
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by jmonts
Yeah, I've driven mine for a month with the oil light on(partially crushed oil pan.....). Finally changed the pan and adjusted the pickup tube since is was slightly off but not kinked. Along with the rear main seal while I was under there. My oil pressure is fine and dandy, fluctuates when it should, no noises either, running Rotella T6.
So you should be fine.

I would like to shoot the PO for tightening the oil filter soo freakin hard that a screwdriver through it didn't move it.
It's not always so much that the filter was put on too tight but that fresh oil was not put on the seal before installation.
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 09:38 AM
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You want to learn about oil then go check out that thread that salad did. .... we can only wait for his oil filter thread
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 04:30 PM
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You want to learn about oil then go check out that thread that salad did. .... we can only wait for his oil filter thread
I can't wait for the oil filter thread!!

Best use for Fram right below here:
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 05:11 PM
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Maybe Salad's filter thread will be earth moving and showing FRAM is actually now up to par with the WIX, NAPA Gold etc part of the class haha.
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 06:26 PM
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Maybe Salad's filter thread will be earth moving and showing FRAM is actually now up to par with the WIX, NAPA Gold etc part of the class haha.
The thought curdles my blood to the point I'm going to have to buy one and find out.

Dammit! lol

Interestingly Walmart here has completely dropped FRAM. All you can buy are Purolator and Bosch now.
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 06:33 PM
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They got tired of replacing engines due to cardboard contamination.
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 06:35 PM
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They got tired of replacing engines due to cardboard contamination.
FRAM or Wally World? Walmart can barely replace a tire...
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 06:39 PM
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I was talking about Walmart. Saving a few pennies on an oil filter from a vendor is not cost-effective if you have to replace engines due to product failure.

Either that, or they read our many discussions about Fram filters on here and decided the bad publicity just wasn't worth it.
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by salad
The thought curdles my blood to the point I'm going to have to buy one and find out.

Dammit! lol
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Don't be surprised if they wrap it in a brown paper bag like a liquor bottle...can't show it in public...
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Yep. Orange Can Of Death.

The salvage yards are full of engines with one of those things hanging off of them.
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 06:59 PM
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Yep. Orange Can Of Death.

The salvage yards are full of engines with one of those things hanging off of them.
Sourcing for parts, that would be a good clue as to why they ended up there...
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What is that picture of? Can I make a gun muffle with a FRAM? I will stock up!!
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Old Feb 19, 2014 | 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by cruiser54
It's not always so much that the filter was put on too tight but that fresh oil was not put on the seal before installation.
That could be. I did have to turn the thing a lot though once I got it lose. He did something right in that it was a NAPA gold filter.
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