Ist oil change DONE!!

I know well the feeling of starting a job and fearing that my physical limitations may prevent me from finishing it and having to have someone else complete it (for wasted time and big $$$ besides the ego bruising). Glad to hear you followed it through. Some people tighten those damn drain plugs as if they were holding up the whole car. Good idea to mark the jack position for future reference. Best of luck with future jobs.

thanks for the reply.

Guess you mean the marks for locating the jack on the rocker. Thought you meant for height when oil changing.

I have a buddy who used to be an aircraft inspector and he uses the term " Aircrafty" when things are done to reduce or avoid mistakes or failures, like the right and left hand lug nuts that Chrys used to have different on each side of the car, so the lugs would tighten from the direction of tire rotation if loose. He questioned why the drain plugs would be so tight, and make sure of the threads. the R&L's on C cars used to make my dad buggy. Didn't help putting low miles on an old car made the lugs hard to get off or installed with an impact wrench.

I need to mark my pointer gauge on my torq wrench since the angle made it hard to see.

Hearing that even the dealer can tighten things too tight made me not want to go there, even though I wasn't getting to change it. It will be easy from now on.

VF

Hi,

A former neighbor, retired mechanic, had a different term. He called it "dungeoneering" when engineers were so isolated from the real world they spent the company's R&D money solving non-existent problems. I've often wondered why the left hand wheels on Fords, Chevies and most other makes didn't fall off by the millions...

Rick

don't know, but only time I had loose lugs they got looser as I drove. They were acorn type that the threads were protected from the weather, so maybe easier to rotate not being dirty or corroded.