Re: Oil Change
  By: mark lewis to Ron Kinney on Tue Jun 18 2019 03:28 pm

 > holy geez, man! that is really whack... i've seen similar but was wrapped in
 > another project and was unable to watch it unfolding... that was back in
 > high  school...
 >
 > then there was the time my mother got a gasket kit because she needed the
 > valve
 > cover gaskets replaced... they had been leaking oil and she had
 > overtightened  the valve cover bolts which caused the gaskets to split and
 > break... this was a
 > '70something toyota corolla... one of the gaskets in the kit was the exhaust
 > gasket and she insisted that it be replaced, too...
 >
 > two broken exhaust studs, several broken drill bits, and three broken EZOuts
 > later, she drove it to the dealership... cost was two diamond drill bits,
 > several more EZOuts, and several hours of labor... plus, of course, the
 > replacement studs which ended up being all eight of them... she didn't worry
 > about doing any of the other gaskets (timing chain cover, oil pump, water
 > pump,
 > etc) after that...
 >
 > i think she was happy to replace the vehicle after a train yard engine
 > caught  the rear quarter panel and rolled it over a year or so later...
 > that's another  story altogether, though 

Its definitely frustrating! I don't mind spending the time fixing up a nice
classic muscle car.  Dunno if I'd have the patience on an old Toyota Corolla
though, lol.

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