Thread: I've done it again!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

This afternoon I started to service the 110.

Parked in the workshop, jacked up and put on four stands (means I can spin the wheels, useful for checking bearing, adjusting rear brakes, check for loose swivels etc, can turn prop shafts when greasing - and gives me a couple of inches more cearance when crawling underneath (Landrovers seem to have got lower to the ground in the last sixty years, I'm sure I could crawl under easily without lifting it any then!) Also enables me to get a 20l drum with the top cut out under the sump plug.

Drain oil, and while it is draining, replace the oil filter and clean the airclearner.

Open the new drum of engine oil, and transfer the pump from the old one, put the hose in the filler, and start pumping. At thirty strokes, check the dispstick. No oil. Give it another ten, check again. repeat. What's that I can hear running?

Oh dear! There is the sump plug in the magnetic tray on top of the radiator!

It is only the second time I have ever done that.

I did that once at a Base Workshop. Stood on the front bar with a gallon jug filling the oil. Discovered my mistake when I stepped down, much to the merriment of the other blokes in the vicinity.
Little bit goes a looong way.

Ah, you need to get into the habit of removing the catch drum so that you can refit the plug. Try that for the next 60 years to see if you can avoid making the same mistake again.

Originally Posted by Tins

I did that once at a Base Workshop. Stood on the front bar with a gallon jug filling the oil. Discovered my mistake when I stepped down, much to the merriment of the other blokes in the vicinity.
Little bit goes a looong way.

Lucky you didn't step in it, years ago I was helping a mate's brother put an engine back in a motor bike and some oil must have poured out of it as when I stood up, I stood in it with both feet and ended up impersonating a windmill, but luckily one of the blokes managed to catch me as I fell over.

Last time I did - having moved the catch drum to better get the filter drain, but in this case the oil coming out of the sump still just went in the drum. But did not fall, as I was out to the side operating the drum pump.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

Lucky you didn't step in it, years ago I was helping a mate's brother put an engine back in a motor bike and some oil must have poured out of it as when I stood up, I stood in it with both feet and ended up impersonating a windmill, but luckily one of the blokes managed to catch me as I fell over.

Step in it is exactly what I did do, hence the merriment. Nobody caught me! Course, I was a little younger in those days.

The nice thing about my early life cars--- they only took 5 litres.

it still makes a big puddle underneath though--

Back when we used to service all the work vehicles ourselves,we bought the engine oil in 20 L drums and fitted a tap to the drum,then sat them on the workbench and let them run into an old 5 litre container sitting on the floor,with quantity markings on the side so we could pour the exact amount in the engine.

While doing this more than once I was distracted,phone rang or whatever,only to come back into the workshop and find oil everywhere.🙈

A wise man once said that fridgies learn the hard way.