Maybe he'll also believe the best way to clean an engine is to get it up to temp, pull into the petrol station, select 93 octane, and thoroughly douse the engine....Then light a lighter to check the many nooks and crannys to make sure he gottem all......

-Wes

 

wow. i think i just **** myself. ive been doing oil changes since ive been 10 years old. and even before that i knew not to do that. just... wow.

 

What a jackass!

 

If you read a few more pages into the thread, he went on that forum to try to learn how to take care of his car. Some a-hole told him to run water through it and he thought the guy was serious. Not everyone is mechanically inclined or had some show them how to work on cars.

 

It just amazes me that one guy's screwup spans two forums....

-Wes

 

The mustang op asked for help. Someone on the mustang forum "helped" him. There are people who then yelled at the op for being clueless after he was misled, not the original "helper". The op was "helped" to a loss of thousands of dollars and humiliation.

The world is full of people that are mean a-holes that try to get a laugh at the expense of others. There is also a sizable number of people who will laugh at the misfortune that ensues. What a world. What a world.

 

I watched a lady buy a can of brake parts cleaner and didnt think anything of it. I was parked next to her and i bought my stuff and when i walked out and she had her hood open and spraying it all over everything and all the electronics. I asked what she was doing and she told me "Im degreasing the motor and electric parts"..................I just walked away.

 

There were also several people who told him to "take it to a shop!!" after some of his other postings. Such as wanting to run straight lucas additive with no oil, and trying to put the oil in thru the dipstick tube. IMO, someone who is so dense that they think they add oil thru the dipstick tube should NOT be working on their vehicle without a more knowledgeable person there to help, and if they do not have someone like that handy, then they should go to the shop and watch the first time before they attempt it themselves. The person who said to run water in it was trying to use sarcasm to make the OP realize he was in over his head even doing an oil change. Sadly, the sarcasm was even over the OP's head.

 

It is amazing!
SAD but amazing
I see more and more and more people like this EVERYDAY!!

Neighbor lady just called a few days ago asking if car should be running or not when checking oil. Recently divorced, but in her late 40s. At least she called. Too bad I am close to the one and only resource in my entire neighbor hood for such things. Her 2 teenage sons, teenage daughter, new boy friend, or anybody else could not tell her

 

My brother-in-law does 99% of his own back-yard shade-tree mechanic work. He believes in just changing his oil filter, and topping off the oil. He says that the filter is supposed filter the oil anyway. I just shake my head and walk away. I have seen some of his other repair and maintenance work, it just flat out scares me. To the best of my knowledge, they have never owned a new vehicle, only used ones. I believe that they have spent more on used vehicles and repairs in total then the total in maintenance and payments on all four of the new vehicles that my wife and I have owned in the 26 years of our marriage. By the way, we still have and use three of the four vehicles that we purchased new. The second one we bought was totaled by a wrong way driver, one month after we paid it off. As a side note, I went to automotive school for a number of years before and after I got married. I no longer work in that field, but learned quite a bit. I now do all of my own repair work, as long as I have the equipment to do it (of which I have quite a lot of).

 

Back in High School my Honors Bio teacher was making a point to show how little guys knew about cars these days.
To my surprise, I was the only one of 40 students who knew what a carbureter was for...

He made his point

 

It was a JOKE

 

I'm with Brad on this one. He said "even after 10 minutes of draining, it was still coming out!" It doesn't take 10 min to drain the 3 1/2 gallons in my Powerstroke. I think you could drain 5qts of molasses in less than 10 min!

 

Wow............................................... ...................................as if!

 

Joke or not, OP's fault or not, doesn't matter. I was hoping someone else caught it, but since no one did...

The OP is from "Toldeo, Ohio."

PS it is possible that oil was still draining after 10 minutes- it was likely only dripping or in a very, very small stream, but it happens, especially if the motor was cold when he drained it. I often let my vehicles drain for 1/2 hour and come back to find it's still dripping. I know that the bulk of the oil is gone but if that whole thing was true and the OP was really that dense, he wouldn't have known any better.