Stupid Mistake

[davemo]

I have been working on vehicles for over ten years now, I get on to my mom, sister, and fiance about religously checking their fluids and air pressure. Yet, I negleted the fluid in my tranny for over a year, and now the bearings are burned up...CHECK YOUR FLUIDS!!!! When I finally checked it the other day, it was black. Expensive stupidity.

 

[BlackBII]

I do the same thing, yet I let my little isuzu car go low on oil and burn up the top end

 

[4x4RangerGuy]

I hear ya man. You're so busy trying to help others that you forget to do your own maintenance.

I'm lucky I was able to get in my last oil change I've been so busy working on other people's vehicles : /

 

[Larue]

I learned that lesson the hard way with engine oil...twice. Once when I was a new driver as a teen. My dad thought I was taking care of the fluids and he thought vice versa. The main bearings froze solid on that little s-10. The second time (about ten years ago) I stopped my 86 cutlass at the gas station to fill up. I felt that familiar lurch as the engine came to an abrupt stop. It worked to my advantage though. I dropped in a 350 rocket from a 70 cutlass.

Oh and there was another engine that I burned up, but I don't count that one. The head gasket on the ford aerostar I was driving blew while going down the highway. I figured wrongly that I could make it to the next exit before stopping.

 

[surffishin07]

my shop teacher in high school used to preach to us about that and one day he started a 460 crate motor in the shop without a drop of oil. a couple of horrific sounds, a bang, and it ended in seizure funny as hell but not so funny at the same time

 

[grnrngr]

Yup..when I was young, had a couple bad valve cover leaks in my '68 GTX (a couple quarts every 2-3 hundred miles) and was relying on the light coming on to let me know I was low. Really dumb. Didn't know the lite burned out, and I was thinking it had been a while since I put any in, when the bearing spun...my other one, that didn't count, was my '67 Wagoneer. It was clacking a bit when I pulled into the parking lot at school, so I checked it and it was way low. After class dumped 4 quarts in, and thought I could make it 5 miles to home but I didn't know the rear main was gone, dumped all the oil before I was even out of the parking lot, spun the bearing before I got to the end of the street.