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OOPs - Oily Garage Floor!

Posted By : Stephen Pratt, 18-Jul-2006, 10:09pm

Just spent a couple of hours cleaning approx 4 litres of new 20/50 off the garage floor - lesson 1 - make sure the oil filter bolt is correctly tightened before starting engine! Took great care to make sure rubber sealing ring correctly seated, oil drain plug in place, then proceeded to fit oil filter in place, remember doing it finger tight but forgot to put a spanner to it before filling with spanking new 20/50 - How long can a Stag engine run with zero oil pressure?

Why do we always have a hose pipe ban when I need to karcher the garage floor?

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Posted By : Ian Mulford, 18-Jul-2006, 10:14pm

You could have just pushed the car out and used the slick as an indoor summer curling rink??
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Posted By : Kevin Rochfort, 18-Jul-2006, 11:11pm

It's probably too late to tell you this, but I think you will find that pressure washers are exempt from the hosepipe ban.

Still, you've learnt a lesson that you wont repeat in a hurry
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  Posted By : Colin Lindsay, 18-Jul-2006, 11:22pm
  
  Cat litter is very good for spilt oil, just lift the lumps out before pouring it over the slick
  Colin
  
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    Posted By : Kevin Rochfort, 18-Jul-2006, 11:30pm
    
    and make sure the cat is not sat in it at the time, otherwise you will have oily paw prints all around the house
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Posted By : Phil Grimble, 19-Jul-2006, 09:00am

At least the oil was clean!

I remember doing an oil change years ago, everything went to plan, apart from the small matter of remembering to put the oil filler cap back on, leaving it instead just sitting idly on top of the rocker cover.

Went for a drive and pulled up at a junction after a couple of miles to see clouds of smoke pouring from under the bonnet - lifting the bonnet revealed a very nicely lubricated engine bay!
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  Posted By : Steve Cureton, 19-Jul-2006, 09:27am
  
  A pal of mine left his filer cap off before embarking on trip to Wales - his engine caught fire in the middle of nowhere!
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  Posted By : Mark Stradling, 19-Jul-2006, 11:33am
  
  That one is easy to sort out - take the radiator cap off and drive for a bit. Hey-presto, nice steam cleaned engine bay.
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    Posted By : Phil Grimble, 19-Jul-2006, 03:40pm
    
    Never thought of that... Or would it have turned into "mayonnaise" like when oil & water mix INSIDE the engine?!