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[redbirds_imp]

Sorry to hear of your mishap Micky. I always dreaded changing oil in my ST-seems there was no neat way to go about it. Hope the cleanup goes easily.

[Obleo]

Me too- I can make an easy job go to bad in a second . I could write a book on the boo boos I have made

[Cormanus]

Wow. Took some big stones just to admit that one!! Sorry about your luck!


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Mate, it's important to share these stories. We all do silly things, and in a couple of months it'll be OK for us all to have a laugh about the inside of the Ferret's garage. You have to feel for him. I think he's the only man I know who hates engine oil more than I do.

[Stichill_imp]

Oil changes are a perfect place for Murphy to show up and lend a hand. A friend at work once decided to change oil and filter in his car late Sunday night. He didn't notice that the filter gasket stuck to the block. Upon installing the new filter, the gasket got all balled up. When he started the engine to check pressure, the entire contents of the sump were quickly pumped onto his garage floor.

This afternoon I changed automatic transmission fluid in my car. The fluid is not cheap: spent $70 on it. Upon re-installing the drain plug, I did not realize that the crush washer had fallen off into the drain pan. I noticed it weeping. In a daring display of bravado and dexterity, I removed the drain plug and quickly covered the hole with a finger while my free hand deftly put the washer on the drain plug. I managed to get it re-installed and by my estimate lost less than 0.1 L of fluid in the process.

[the Ferret]

Stichill... Wow amazing. I would have lost about $65 worth of the atf lol.

If we share, then others will know they are not alone when they mess up a little. I'm not afraid to admit I am not perfect, especially when it comes to turning wrenches. I know What to do, i'm good at explaining it, and photographing it, I'm just not the best at doing it lol

BTW after guests left about 9 PM, Mrs Ferret and I washed and somewhat polished the CB. And for R4N, this is not the first bath the CB got this year (it's the second lol)

[LongRanger_imp]

I had a 3 hp Briggs and Stratton minibike when I was ten. The bike ate #35 master links for lunch and it was all I could do to save enough allowance to buy replacements ($1.05 at the motorbike shop down the hill). Mom had to drive me so it was always a big production. She wasn't keen on me having a minibike in the first place.

Anyway, one day I'm at the small engine repair shop with my dad and sitting on the counter is a rack of authentic Briggs and Stratton 30W oil. I had never seen such a thing. $2.40 a quart if I recall, which was a lot of money for a ten year old kid back in 1970. Naturally, I had to have some.

So I bought a can, got home, pushed my minibike out to the curb, drained the crankcase in the gutter, and proceeded to refill it with the authentic nectar from the Mother Company. It was all good until I realized that I forgot to reinstall the drain plug. Lesson learned! From that day forward, I've never made that same mistake. Nor have I ever drained oil in the gutter again!

[DaSwami_imp]

At least you weren't being paid to do that work for somebody else....!

Never had a mishap with an oil change, but the oil filler cap on my Triumph Scrambler worked loose while riding and THAT was interesting. It was a brown geyser shooting oil everywhere, what a hot stinky mess, oil all over me and the exhaust, which smoked aplenty.

Fortunately a good samaritan stopped and loaned me some tools to fish the cap out of the space on the engine it settled into and work the cap back on the bike.

I actually posted this story in the Triumph forum and lo and behold 2 weeks later a new design oil filler cap direct from Triumph showed up! Impressive!

[LongRanger_imp]

Same exact thing happened with my V7 Classic, although Piaggio never showed me any love. I guess the oil filler caps are known for vibrating loose. What a mess. And the 10W-60 they use isn't inexpensive.

[Stichill_imp]

I had a 3 hp Briggs and Stratton minibike when I was ten. The bike ate #35 master links for lunch and it was all I could do to save enough allowance to buy replacements ($1.05 at the motorbike shop down the hill). Mom had to drive me so it was always a big production. She wasn't keen on me having a minibike in the first place.

Anyway, one day I'm at the small engine repair shop with my dad and sitting on the counter is a rack of authentic Briggs and Stratton 30W oil. I had never seen such a thing. $2.40 a quart if I recall, which was a lot of money for a ten year old kid back in 1970. Naturally, I had to have some.

So I bought a can, got home, pushed my minibike out to the curb, drained the crankcase in the gutter, and proceeded to refill it with the authentic nectar from the Mother Company. It was all good until I realized that I forgot to reinstall the drain plug. Lesson learned! From that day forward, I've never made that same mistake. Nor have I ever drained oil in the gutter again!

I'll bet a lot of us have stories like that. When I was a teenager, my dad took a rectangular tin can, probably about 6 quarts, cut out one side of it out and rolled over the edges. That was our drain pan. The used oil went into a dry creek bed at the back of the yard. In fact the drain pan lived back there, upside down. Even back then I used to wonder where the oil ultimately went...not everything in the "good old days" was actually good.

[use2b_imp]

Glad it wasn't worse and only a clean up .
wrapped my drain plug in a clean rag and went inside one day and when i came back out new pup had the rag in the yard and never did find the drain plug .... things happen