Foiled trying to change my oil

[Taylortractornut]

THe oil drain was probably hand tightened with a long handled wrench. Ive seen alot of the straight threaded O ring type plugs have the threads stretched or gaulded by a long wrench instead of an impact. I put the plugs in on the trucks at work with a 3/8ths impact to lightly tighten them. I have a friend that loves walmart oil changes. About 3 times Ive had to remove the plug for him.

The oil leaving you truck could have gotten out buy lugging it, the next thig is my Cummins powered service truck when it gets the least bit over an oil change it will burn alot of oil idleing. Last winter in the snow that we had I left mine running for a few hours charging a battery on a downed Genset. It burnt 2 quarts.

 

[dmccarty]

I bought my first diesel truck and then had to go on vacation. On vacation I wanted/needed to change the oil. I tried to change oil but I could not get the oil filter off. If I had been at home I would have stuck a screw driver through the filter to get it off but since it was not my driveway I took it to a quick lube place to change the oil.

Quick it was not. As I was waiting for them to change my oil, I started to figure out how much money it cost me to buy quality oil and filters. Then I guessed at what the guy changing the oil was making....

After the quick not so quick oil change I went back to the house I was staying at and changed the oil myself. Figured I paid them to get the old filter off. :laughing: I just could not see how they could put a decent oil and filter on the truck and still pay the guy making the change.

Later,
Dan

 

[creekbend]

Hmm... you have a compelling point. The dip-stick was bone-dry, but it don't go all the way to the bottom of the pan. And come to think of it, the truck takes 12 quarts, but I only put 8 in to get it to the top of the line. I guess I know where the other four came from! :confused2:

PS: In case you hadn't figured it out, I am not a professional mechanic, or even an amateur one. Just a guy with enough initiative to change his own oil, like they used to do back when Men Were Men and Dinosaurs Roamed The Earth.

You stated that your truck takes 12 quarts of oil. What make and model of truck?

 

[rambler]

PS: In case you hadn't figured it out, I am not a professional mechanic, or even an amateur one. Just a guy with enough initiative to change his own oil, like they used to do back when Men Were Men and Dinosaurs Roamed The Earth.

I say this very gently, but: I think we pretty well had that figured out.


You won't have good service if you come in with your own oil filter - I doubt they will use it, and if they do will overcharge you some other way to where you will lose.

I would hope any good shop worth going to would tell you to take a hike if you asked them to drain the oil, and then place it back into the engine. Aside from the old dirty oil, as your truck ran out of oil it heated things up and you have a lot of kinda bad floating arounf in your engine. Get the oil out of it & throw it all away, replace with good fresh oil.

Just go to the place and get an oil change, no strange instuctions.

You can use your filter on the following oil change when you do it yourself.

The sooner you do the oil change, the better off you are going to be.......

 

[joshuabardwell]

You stated that your truck takes 12 quarts of oil. What make and model of truck?

Ram 2500 diesel.

 

[joshuabardwell]

I say this very gently, but: I think we pretty well had that figured out.

Yeah, yeah. I just wanted to make sure y'all knew that I knew it too. No presumptions to competence here. The comment was intended with a healthy dose of irony.

You won't have good service if you come in with your own oil filter - I doubt they will use it, and if they do will overcharge you some other way to where you will lose.

That's a fair point.

 

[s219]

I've had to use a pipe or breaker bar on new cars for the first oil change before -- sometimes the plug is painted over onto the pan.

On many cars, plugs will strip out before they can be over-tightened. Or getting them off will finish off the threads. Examine it carefully. I assume it's used?

 

[joshuabardwell]

I assume it's used?

Yeah. We just got it a few months ago, and this is the first service interval that has come about. I'm going to take it to a pro and let them deal with it.

 

[rsewill]

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