cbturf
Gold Member
OK it all started when all three machines and both trucks just happened to need an oil change at the same time so we decided to take a half day and service everything. The Barko was quite simple since it has drain hose on the bottom and a ball valve to open the drain. The 140 sucks because you have to be as skinny as my four year old son with gorilla arms to reach the filter. The 148 is pretty simple, just drop the belly pan and everything else is straight forward. The 6.4L in the F350 is as easy as it gets just pull the plug and the filter is on top of the engine.
THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST WAS THE 6.7L POWERSTROKE IN THE 550.
It got pretty bad when in the Arizona sun my dad took off his glasses and dove under the dark truck to pull the drain plug. Dad got to go under the truck because I was still working on the 148. He pulled the plug and drained everything in the pan and the took the filter off...what a mess it was almost like the oil pan was still full. He then put a bunch of oil out of a 5 gallon bucket in and pulled the dipstick. It was black as old oil and WAY over full. He thought he must have just misjudged how much he put in and just had to drain some out. So he takes off his glasses and heads back under to drain a little off. He pulled the drain plug and found it to be empty! He slithered out to get a screw driver to stick up there and get whatever was clogging the drain out. That is when I came up and asked what was wrong and he pulled the dipstick to show me the way over full and dirty oil on the dipstick.
I was a little worried and went under to find the drain pan under the TRANSMISSION! Dad had not done any mechanic work in years and just took off his glasses and pulled the first plug he found.
OK I am not a master mechanic myself but I can change oil just fine. I got me my 3/8 inch ratchet to work the fancy 1/4 turn drain plug and nothing happened. I reached up to see what was wrong and the 1 inch plug came out pushed by 6 gallons of warm oil! It came out so fast that it overwhelmed the drain pan and started to overflow. I had no choice but to try and stop the flow so first tried to stick my finger in the hole and it did nothing. The hole is way bigger than my finger then I tried to just stick the plug back in. When I did the oil sprayed everywhere to include my chest and face. I got it back in and had to empty the drain pan. After that all went well. But I had oil all over my arm where it ran down and my face was black and my new Carhartt shirt was soaked in used diesel oil.
The moral of the story is do not let your dad under your truck without his glasses, do not change your own oil in a 6.7L Powerstroke if it has an extra 3 gallons of oil in it and 1/4 turn means your drain plug is loose and waiting for you to touch it before releasing a torrent of used oil all over you and the ground!
THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST WAS THE 6.7L POWERSTROKE IN THE 550.
It got pretty bad when in the Arizona sun my dad took off his glasses and dove under the dark truck to pull the drain plug. Dad got to go under the truck because I was still working on the 148. He pulled the plug and drained everything in the pan and the took the filter off...what a mess it was almost like the oil pan was still full. He then put a bunch of oil out of a 5 gallon bucket in and pulled the dipstick. It was black as old oil and WAY over full. He thought he must have just misjudged how much he put in and just had to drain some out. So he takes off his glasses and heads back under to drain a little off. He pulled the drain plug and found it to be empty! He slithered out to get a screw driver to stick up there and get whatever was clogging the drain out. That is when I came up and asked what was wrong and he pulled the dipstick to show me the way over full and dirty oil on the dipstick.
I was a little worried and went under to find the drain pan under the TRANSMISSION! Dad had not done any mechanic work in years and just took off his glasses and pulled the first plug he found.
OK I am not a master mechanic myself but I can change oil just fine. I got me my 3/8 inch ratchet to work the fancy 1/4 turn drain plug and nothing happened. I reached up to see what was wrong and the 1 inch plug came out pushed by 6 gallons of warm oil! It came out so fast that it overwhelmed the drain pan and started to overflow. I had no choice but to try and stop the flow so first tried to stick my finger in the hole and it did nothing. The hole is way bigger than my finger then I tried to just stick the plug back in. When I did the oil sprayed everywhere to include my chest and face. I got it back in and had to empty the drain pan. After that all went well. But I had oil all over my arm where it ran down and my face was black and my new Carhartt shirt was soaked in used diesel oil.
The moral of the story is do not let your dad under your truck without his glasses, do not change your own oil in a 6.7L Powerstroke if it has an extra 3 gallons of oil in it and 1/4 turn means your drain plug is loose and waiting for you to touch it before releasing a torrent of used oil all over you and the ground!
