Years ago I was working in an area, road had a haymaker of a hill and curve all together. At quitting time coming home, top of hill was and oil filter with some oil laying in the road. We thought this was strange and pondered it. Down the hill and around the curve was a van parked!! Woman and kids said "van just quit on us" No cell phones then so we went back and got her hubby at her house further down that road. Joel told him looks like the vans oil filter is at the top of the hill. Did not stick around to hear the conversation.
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We got done milking one night,came out of the barn and I saw a tire laying out by the mailbox. I went out there and it was a whole wheel and tire,still had the hub and a piece of the rear axle attached. There were rear brake parts laying all over,and pieces of plastic and tail light. Somebody had flipped right over the top of the mailbox without even touching it. How he drove off with one rear wheel gone is still a mystery to me. From the size of the wheel and tire,I'm thinking it was a pickup. Must have been a 4 wheel drive and the front was pulling him.
My youngest son came home from school the next day and said he knew who it was,but to this day he won't tell me.
My youngest son came home from school the next day and said he knew who it was,but to this day he won't tell me.
Aaron Ford
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Was an oil/tire tech in a Firestone shop in Kissimmee FL years ago. Had a guy call in and say the van I had just changed the oil on was broke down right outside of town and the customer said we owed him a motor. The senior techs went out, found the van, followed the oil slick back to where he had removed the filter and thrown it into the bushes. The guy had removed the filter, and driven the van until the engine failed. He probably needed an engine before he came in but he certainly needed one afterward. It was not replaced by Firestone.
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Harold Hubbard
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Young boy pulled in to the farm one day, wanted the telephone, car had lost oil pressure. His girlfriend came to pick him up. She came out of her car screaming, I know what?s wrong with that ?�- car, the ding ding ding oil filter is lying right at the end of our driveway. It turns out he had bought oil and filters for two cars, changed one and put the wrong filter on it. It screwed on, but didn?t stay on when he hit the first bump.
Dan in North Houston
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Years ago we needed a new pickup, wanted a dually with towing package, etc. Back then they were hard to find and the nearest one found was several states away. We sent my mother and aunt on a road trip to drive the old pickup and trade it in on the new one. At one gas station along the way, the attendant must have figured he had some gullible out of state women, so he checked under the hood and told my mother that she had no oil filter and it needed to go in the shop immediately. She told him if it came this far without one, it really wasn't necessary. She paid for the gas and went on her way.
When I was in the oil changing business we received an alert from our oil filter supplier telling us -- some Ford motors have a oil pressure relief valve that fails. If you find a filter that is swollen, do not change oil. make the owner aware of a problem. They were known to split seams in filters and/or blow the gasket out. Several motors were replaced before the problem became known.
Northvale PA
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A 2 wheel wagon doesn?t go far once one of the tires and axles lets go. Took bout 75? to stop it.
old popper
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Kind of like the guy who went in the parts store and asked for a longer dipstick. His didn't touch the oil anymore!
fixerupper
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In the winter of 72 or 73 when I was driving a 62 Rambler Classic the oil pressure dropped so I shut it down and coasted to the side of the road. The oil plug had fallen out. I got to thinking about it and remembered the gas station attendant who had changed the oil in this car a week earlier had screwed in the plug without tightening it and then left to gas up a car. When he came back from gassing the car he must not have tightened the plug before he let the car down. I forget if I mentioned this to the owner of the gas station. There was no damage done except for the loss of a plug and some oil. By the way, how many of you remember that bell that went off in the gas station when a car drove up to the pumps? Self service gas put an end to that era.
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