The lesson was this: if you have a motor that you didn't pull placed on a stand, before you turn it over to pull the oil pan........check to see if whoever did pull it drained the oil pan. Ryan make big mess Mahalo
At least you didn't pull the old "Well I just bought this crate motor and got it installed, guess it's time to fire it up" routine without checking the oil. One of the shop's I know had a customer do this and was PISSED that the company didn't ship it with oil. Nik
Fess up now, are you sure someone else pulled the motor? This was your first time? Yeah, right! If it really is, how long have you been fooling around with this stuff and why is just now you've joined our not so exclusive club? This is yet one more example of the old adage "If I had a dime for every time..........". Just take two aspirin, dump the kitty litter on it, get out your broom, and it will be better in the morning.
Yep yep, somebody else pulled it, that's a block I'm using to get a core charge back, when Monkey and I picked it up it was bolted to a skid. Draining the oil is the first thing I do when I yank a block, that's why it never occured to me to check. I poured a bag of kitty litter under it and just let it finish draining.
Reminds me of the time I changed my oil and then degreased the engine without pulling the pan out from under the truck first. The water washed the 4 quarts of oil (it was a mini-truck) the full length of my driveway. At least yours all landed in one spot. Slonaker
...Jeezus..if'n you're gonna **** sumthin' up, and for God's sake, if you HAVE to post it here...don't tell everyone you're from Tulsa,.....and also don't tell that you hang around Monkey!...
Lounge- Don't feel bad. You're not alone. A couple years ago, I drove down to Texas to pick up an inline 6 motor. I had brought along an old tire to lay it on - in the bed of my S-10 pickup, so made sure to ask if the oil had been drained. The seller ***ured me it was bone dry. About 30 miles later, on the way back home, I hear this loud "clunk" when I come to a stop at an intersection. "WTF??", I'm thinking. I look out the back window and heres the whole mess (motor laying on a tire) sliding around the pickup bed in about a half-inch of filthy oil! What a damn mess! I stopped at the first manual car wash I could find and spent about five bucks spraying everything off. Had to do it all again once I got back home, as it kept seeping out of the dipstick hole. Well, at least it didn't happen in my garage or driveway, but next time, I'm not taking anybody's word. I'll pull the plug and see for sure before loading up.
But if people know I hang out with Monkey they'll understand why I do things like dump 5qts of funky oil on my shop floor.
True confessions on the big oil spot on the floor? Here's a couple of mine. Rebuilt a Ford Cleveland 400-M. Bored, forged pistons, Crower cam etc. Engine on a stand. Spun up oil pressure with a speed wrench and socket to fit the oil pump drive shaft. (You can do that with the Fords, no drill needed.) And found a quart of oil on the floor because I didn't put the filter on. Couple years down the road, rebuilt the 2000cc engine in the Pinto. New pistons, balanced etc. Engine hanging on the same engine stand. Got to the point where I was ready to do the speed wrench/socket bit and made sure to install an oil filter. Called daughter out cuz she wanted to see what happened when oil pressure was put to the engine. Cranked on the speed wrench, daughter noticed a quart of oil on the floor and asked if that was supposed to happen. I forgot to install the oil press sender....
I had a 74 Mazda with the rotary engine and was taking all the smog off and installing headers, 4 barrel intake with holley carb set up for oil injection. After taking the exhaust manifold and pipes off I just had to start it up to see how it sounded with open exhaust ports. Fired it up and lots of throttle and I still cant say how it sounded. I had forgot I had punched a hole in the top of the oil filter to let it drain back into motor (set on top of motor threaded part down) immediately blew the oil about 10 feet into the air covering the whole pickup cab with oil. Very messy driveway.
One time I changed the oil in my Mustang GT in my Dad's yard. Turned it over and watched the oil pressure gauge freak out...turns out, the filter gasket from the old filter was still on the block, up against the new one, and that doesn't make for the tightest seal. The gr*** is still dead and brown in that part of the yard. And one time, about a year later, I watched a guy pull his filter then, for whatever reason, start the car. He dumped a few quarts too - but he had the good sense to pull this **** in his buddie's driveway, not his Dad's yard. Good times.
I went to pick up a 4 Speed Dagenham I bought on E-bay. I borrowed the wife's new Subaloo wagon since weather is too ****py for the good cars anyway. Nice guy showed me his projects and helped me load ****** on a packing blanket in the back of the wagon. Just about home I smelled the unmistakeable stench of 90 weight gear oil. the ****** had tipped over and a good quart of sulfur-y gear oil ran into the nice carpet and crevices of the wife's new car. I kitty-littered/Fabreezed and cleaned for days but on damp days the fragrance of the gear oil returns to remind me (along with my wife) of how stupid it is to ***UME "the thing must be empty". Powerband PS Here's the ******:
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