Found out the REAL source of my oil leak: My oil filter is MANGLED (weeping valve cover leakage is negligable at worst). It LOOKS LIKE the "snappy lube" that I have been letting do my oil changes FOREVER either mangled it trying to get it off, failed to get it off or didn't bother to change it and didn't bother to mention it. What kind of MORONS would DO this sort of thing?
Okay NOW I'm just MAD! (was "Suddenly leaking valve covers"
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I don't go there to save money. I only use those places because no one takes used oil near me anymore (good ol' California). I learned to change oil when i was 12 and until now I could not fathom how STUPID one would have to be to screw one up.
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Don't use the drains, from what i understand they have to take back used oil regardless of who changed it, them or you, atleast that is how it is here pull into any station and let them know what you got and they point you in the right dirrection to put it in there recycle tank for oil
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Oh yeah you have to learn to update your original post, this post is directly involved with your 1st post and this should all be in there as to not confuse people trying to help, so now you have this post that should be in your other post and the other post isn't done yet and no one knows if it's fixed or not, update the post that you made the 1st time
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I just dump my used oil in the weeds next to the fence where I can't mow. But then, I'm not from Cali, either. I would imagine by now you would see the value in changing it yourself and going thru the hassle of going wherever you hafta to find a place to dump it. Wal-Mart will take it. Most likely the last flamin idiot that changed it tightened that filter up with a wrench. Then this next moron (who obviously is so stupid he couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel) was incapable of getting it off. Sounds to me like they are paralyzed from the eyebrows up.
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Dude, WTF is wrong with you?MudFlap said:
First off, if the EPA ever found you doing that, you would pay a SERIOUS fine, and do time in jail.
Secondly, do you ever think about what that crap does to the environment? Oil gets into the groundwater within a matter of weeks, and can contaminate any water for miles around you. If there is an aquifer near where you are dumping this, you will pollute the whole thing!
Have some respect for where you live, and your neighbors! It doesn't take much effort to take it to a used oil collection place.
My brother took his car to a quick lube and they could only get the oil filter to catch on the first thread and a half. So his wife is driving the car and the oil light comes on. Does she stop? NO! continues on down the road for maybe 3 or 4 blocks when BAM the car dies!!
Found the oil filter where she turned on the street and had a beautiful oil slick for about a block down the road.
My dad got involved and they said they would pay for a new engine until my brothers big mouthed, now ex-wife called them up and cussed them out-they then decided not to buy them a new engine. Changed your own oil-it's easy and faster.
Found the oil filter where she turned on the street and had a beautiful oil slick for about a block down the road.
My dad got involved and they said they would pay for a new engine until my brothers big mouthed, now ex-wife called them up and cussed them out-they then decided not to buy them a new engine. Changed your own oil-it's easy and faster.
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One more horror story.
Several years ago, my brother was changing the oil on his g/f's Jeep, which had previously been done at a Jiffy Lube. He crawled under, and written on the oil pan with a paint pen, "Do Not Remove", with an arrow pointing to the silicone caked drain plug!
Apparantly one of the genius' stripped the drain plug.
Several years ago, my brother was changing the oil on his g/f's Jeep, which had previously been done at a Jiffy Lube. He crawled under, and written on the oil pan with a paint pen, "Do Not Remove", with an arrow pointing to the silicone caked drain plug!
Apparantly one of the genius' stripped the drain plug.
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Lmfao, fine, lol you better hope all you pay is a fine, the cleaning bill will kill you, that oil will spread thru 100's of yards of dirt and to clean that is like $10k per every 20 yards, just hope no one surveys your house or property, because it will turn up in the ground in other spots and since it's your property it's your clean up bill, lol you'll be cleaning the entire neighborhood, hope a neighbor doesn't sell his house or start digging.dodge8564 said:
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·In PA, we burn used motor oil. I never have any sitting around. Just give it to a trucker heading east. Some poor soul will be happy for it.
You guys can chill on MudFlap. I did that for years. Controlled the weeds. Wasn't until I found people burning it that I started saving it.
You guys can chill on MudFlap. I did that for years. Controlled the weeds. Wasn't until I found people burning it that I started saving it.
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·I used to dump my oil on my driveway, kept the dust down & the weeds of course. I would still do it today but I don't have a dirt driveway. Before the 80's they used to spray the dirt roads with oil, it kept the roads in better condition & didn't hurt the farms around.
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Hell, I burn it in the winter time in the shop. We heat with wood and oil. Also works great to keep the dust down in the driveway. My nearest neighbor is 5 miles away and my water well is 200 ft deep, so the water table's pretty far down there. EPA?? What's that? Oh yeah, they are the clowns that screwed up muscle cars.
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