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Posted by David Sherman [24.32.202.83] on Monday, September 07, 2009 at 14:32:22 :

I've never claimed to be smarter than Murphy, but he really got me on this one.

Just changed the oil and filter on my Honda car, backed it down off the ramps, got out to put the ramps away, and there's a gallon of fresh oil on the pavement under the car. WTF? Maybe the filter wasn't tight. I run it back up onto the ramps with the oil light on, shut it off, reach up and check the filter. Nope, it's tight. WTF? Maybe the $2.99 Wal*Mart filter (nothing but the best for my rice wagon) isn't made right, so I go to get the old fiter out of the garbage can to compare. Naturally sombody just dumped another load of garbage in, so I'm digging through the soda pop, cigarette butts, personal unmentionables, and what not to get the filter which of course is all the way at the bottom. As soon as I pull it out I can see the problem: no gasket on the old filter. The filter on a honda's in a place that's hard to see. I crawl back under the car, reach up, and there's the old gasket, off-center no doubt, hence the very major "leak". At least I now know that the oil pump on a honda is capable of moving a gallon of oil in about 10 seconds.

Lesson learned. Henceforth, after removing an oil filter, make sure the old gasket came off with it.



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