I may have screwed up ....more than once

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When I was 18 years old I learned that an oil filter gasket can stick to the block. :BangHead:

Almost brand new Toyota mini truck that I bought brandnew. Changed oil in the street outside my parents' house. Started it up and drove to the stop sign, across the street and up the hill. Luckily I saw the oil light come on, looked in the rear view mirror and saw the line of oil.

Pulled over, walked back home and my dad asked me to check if the gasket came off with the old filter...oops!!

Had a 92 W150 with a 318 in it that liked to pull the gasket off the filter. Did an oil change, backed it out of garage and saw the oil streak just as the light came on!
 
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One even better, working on my deck, joist 16” on center, I snagged my shoe on a nail and I lost my balance and fell through the joist. Now I’m a ‘big’ guy how I got through is beyond me. Deck was about 5’ off the ground. Must have knocked me out because all I remember was laying on the ground in pain trying not to move to much till I could tell if anything was broke. Ended up with 3 broken ribs, a bruised kidney, numerous scrapes and a very sore back. Took 8 weeks to get over that, oh and that deck still ain’t finished and that was ten years ago.
 
One even better, working on my deck, joist 16” on center, I snagged my shoe on a nail and I lost my balance and fell through the joist. Now I’m a ‘big’ guy how I got through is beyond me. Deck was about 5’ off the ground. Must have knocked me out because all I remember was laying on the ground in pain trying not to move to much till I could tell if anything was broke. Ended up with 3 broken ribs, a bruised kidney, numerous scrapes and a very sore back. Took 8 weeks to get over that, oh and that deck still ain’t finished and that was ten years ago.


LOL...sounds like the deck won that one!!
 
One even better, working on my deck, joist 16” on center, I snagged my shoe on a nail and I lost my balance and fell through the joist. Now I’m a ‘big’ guy how I got through is beyond me. Deck was about 5’ off the ground. Must have knocked me out because all I remember was laying on the ground in pain trying not to move to much till I could tell if anything was broke. Ended up with 3 broken ribs, a bruised kidney, numerous scrapes and a very sore back. Took 8 weeks to get over that, oh and that deck still ain’t finished and that was ten years ago.

I'm surprised you didn't cut the thing into little pieces!! :mad:
 
Then the latest, Saturday working on the lawn mower and settin on the scooter chair. True to its name it scooted out from under me when I leaned over, stuck out my right arm to lesson the flop and I think I tore my rotator cuff, can’t lift my arm up at all. Wife said they have the room ready at the old folks home.
But I’m not a total klutz I’ve have made-done a lot of amazing things, so I guess it all evens out in the long run.
 
Then the latest, Saturday working on the lawn mower and settin on the scooter chair. True to its name it scooted out from under me when I leaned over, stuck out my right arm to lesson the flop and I think I tore my rotator cuff, can’t lift my arm up at all. Wife said they have the room ready at the old folks home.
But I’m not a total klutz I’ve have made-done a lot of amazing things, so I guess it all evens out in the long run.
I think we should start calling you Lucky!
 
Then the latest, Saturday working on the lawn mower and settin on the scooter chair. True to its name it scooted out from under me when I leaned over, stuck out my right arm to lesson the flop and I think I tore my rotator cuff, can’t lift my arm up at all. Wife said they have the room ready at the old folks home.
But I’m not a total klutz I’ve have made-done a lot of amazing things, so I guess it all evens out in the long run.

I`ve got a little rolling stool for working on brakes , its dumped me more than once , only reason I`ve still got it is, its got some neat metal on it I might need to cut up for some ''rigging'' one of these days
 
I filled a Ford C4 trans with an empty torque convertor with the recommended 9 Qts of fluid. So I'm finishing up dumping the 2nd gallon of ATF into the filler when I see a red pool of ATF coming out from the side of the car. I never thought the convertor would not fill in park! Everything past probably 6 qts went right out the top vent of the trans case out onto the garage floor.
 
My first engine rebuild was a slant six. After I got it together I rotated it to make sure it spun freely. After about 90 degrees rotation it locked solid. I had left the metal can of permeatex in the bottom end. Got it together and all looked good. 60 lbs oil pressure. The pressure started dropping and was zero when I got back to the shop. I had not noticed the Maltese cross stamped on the block pad, which meant that it was ten thousand under from the factory.
 
Back in the 1600's, Samuel Pepys wrote something along the lines of "He that doth get a wench with child, then marry her, is no better than he that doth **** in his own hat, then clap it on his head."
 
As rumble said, "Install an oil pressure gauge". Cheap insurance & you don't have to rely on an idiot light that usually comes on "way" too late.
I put a T on it and run gauge and light and if I could I’d hook up a big wet mitt that would come out of dash and slap me up side the head if it lost oil pressure. Sometimes asleep at the switch
 
I finally got around to priming the oil system on a rebuilt 273. Pulled the distributer gear and inserted the priming tool and gave it a spin with a low speed drill. Shot oil all over out of the oil pressure sending unit port. First mistake. Then I took the drill off the priming tool to reduce stress on the distributor gear bushing while I inserted the sending unit. After inserting the sending unit, I reattached the drill and gave it a whirl. After about three minutes I popped a rocker cover off to see if there was any oil in the area and nothing. I had inadvertently reversed the rotation of the drill when removing and reattaching it. Second Mistake. I switched it back to clockwise and ran it some more and nothing. My question is…. Have I damaged the oil pump or do I simply need to reestablish prime for the pump?


Any suggestions?
As stated in another comment, the cam has holes in the #2 and 4 IIRC, it's been a while since I had one apart. Like the Big Block series, the oil is metered to the rocker shafts through these holes, only difference is in the BBs it's #4 only IIRC again. I do know for sure other engines go about this in other ways or not at all as in the case of FORD FE's which had no metering at all. Those engine literally flooded the tops and would be real smokers when the guides and seals went bad. I used to make plugs from 5/16" bolts to drop into one of the shaft mount holes each side, which would limit flow and give the benefit of raising oil pressure to the entire engine, mainly crank, from near ZERO to ACCEPTABLE ! Yes I know this is a MOPAR site, said that before, but let me quote an old dear friend whom I worked with long ago, "If it weren't for FORDS and CHEVYs, MOPAR owners wouldn't be able to make a living. And it never hurts to KNOW stuff like that. As for getting the drill going the wrong way, it happens all the time! I had a moment myself more than once, like putting a 440 together and wiring the plug wires as if it were a SB and could not understand why it wouldn't start. Just spin the pump in the right direction and it will prime itself unless it an old REMAN pump like one I install back in 1974 into a FORD FLAT HEAD rebuild, the only way I could get more than 5 PSI was on a cold and I mean COLD start, -15 in January with 40 weight. I knew the pump was working because it would make pressure cold so it had to be moving oil warmed up, it just wouldn't move it with any pressure. That engine was still running 20 yrs later when the owner died in his late 90's. On the other hand, I had a 318 with the stamped steel oil filter cover that when I put a HVHP pump in would blow out the gasket between the block and cover no matter what. I wasn't going to pull the pump out for any reason, not with the engine in a VAN, so I simply ordered one of the right angle cast filter adapters which has always made so much more sense from the start than that space limiting POS stamped plate. I will never figure why MOPAR did such a stupid thing as that, NONE of the other Manufactures did anything like that until VW came along with a PLASTIC POS that is even STUPIDER, did I just say that? For these reasons I no longer make a living doing this stuff, I quit! I have no more real MOPARs left but would like to.
 
I put a T on it and run gauge and light and if I could I’d hook up a big wet mitt that would come out of dash and slap me up side the head if it lost oil pressure. Sometimes asleep at the switch
Time you see the gauge, it’s gone!
 
5.0 Fords the oil pump drive is easy to eff up and you have no oil pressure at all...ask me how I know...
 
Winterized by bracket car for the winter, Plugged everything, unloaded the rockers, hat on carb etc..
Fired it up in the spring. OOPS!!! forgot to take the cap off of the crankcase breather that was hooked to the headers. Blew out both front & rear seals and of course spun a bearing before I could get it shut off. Made it to the track last week of August... CRAP
 
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