When I was working in a Foreign car shop way back in the middle of the last century, a woman came driving down the road in a brand new XKE roadster (its an old Jaguar) with a trail of smoke so thick that nothing behind her could be seen. She pulls on the lot and the engine was making some really bad noises. Of course the whole shop has turned out to see what this is all about.
Well the gal gets out of the Jag and she's just crying up a storm, tears running everywhere, almost as many tears as there was drops of oil dripping under the car.
Turns out this Jag was her husbands new pride and joy, and the husband, who was a pilot, and was gone often, told her that she always needed to check the water & oil before she drove the car. He then pointed out how to check these items and where each would be added if needed.
He showed her where the oil was kept along side of the jug of coolant.
Well I'm sure that not many here will know that oil came in 2 gallon jugs way back when, but it did.
It turns out that this poor woman forgot a couple of steps when it came to the oil. Like checking it. All she remembered was where the oil and water were added, and when she removed the radiator cap she saw coolant like she was suposed to, and she thought its OK, but when she removed the oil filler cap, she saw no oil, so she started pouring oil in.
Well, she added the entire 2 gallons, and when that didn't fill up the engine, she became hysterical, got in the car and drove it to the nearest shop for more oil.
She didn't think anything about the fact the car was smoking like a forest fire, or that it sounded like a cement mixer, she was just worried about driving the car with it low on oil.
To this day I do not understand how that engine ran with that much oil in it.
And believe or not, she wasn't blond.
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Abuse, neglect from leaving the truck in 4hi on dry pavement.
