Oil Change Instructions...Men Vs Women...

And now it's time for another old story from the old days.

At the GCA RADAR shop at Miramar, we had permission to work on our cars on our time off



We had one chief who didn't know a phillips screwdriver from a socket set. Interesting, for some reason I cannot even remember his name, anymore

One afternoon I was there, "doing something" and he was going to change his oil. 67 Chev, he had. So he asked me "how do you?"

I said "you know how to get it jacked up safely?"

"I think so."

I said, "well you crawl under there and find the plug on the bottom of the engine, and let all the oil fall out."

I wasn't payin much attention. Some time later, he comes over, "Something's wrong. It won't move."

Turns out someone had ADDED A DRAIN PLUG to the turbohydro, and he'd drained the transmission pan!!!

This means of course that he had just got done pouring 4-5 quarts of engine oil in on top of whatever was already in the engine.

So now not only did he have to run back to the store (with someone else) and buy some ATF, but had to buy some more engine oil LOL