Another successful oil change

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck) 03/22/2016 at 20:16 • Filed to: Vibe

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Only one scraped knuckle, and several wrong guesses of the drain plug size. The cat was not helpful.

leicester > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:17

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Cats never are. They just sit there and criticize.

Slant6 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:22

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What does an unsuccessful oil change look like?

Frank Grimes > leicester 03/22/2016 at 20:23

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Their criticism is the worst they are too good to call names they just always use such pointed accurate words and stare with their expressionless smug faces. Jerks.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Slant6 03/22/2016 at 20:30

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Ones where I spill oil on the driveway, drop the plug in a pool of hot oil and have to fish it out, can’t get off the oil filter, and find lots of metal bits.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:30

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As long as the cat was that color before the oil change you are good.

Tohru > Slant6 03/22/2016 at 20:31

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Slant6 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:31

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But aren’t you always ultimately successful? Has there ever been a car ending oil change?

lone_liberal > Slant6 03/22/2016 at 20:31

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4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:33

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Telescopic magnets (there’s probably a more official name for such a device) are great for fishing drain plugs out of hot oil.

Urambo Tauro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:35

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Cats being unhelpful during an oil change, you say?

interstate366, now In The Industry > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:36

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Hopefully the cat left you alone. My dog has decided he needs attention immediately at inconvenient times when I’ve been working on my car.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Slant6 03/22/2016 at 20:36

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Hey, oil changes and bulbs are the official extent of my wrenching these days.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:40

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Ihave the wonderful fortune of scrapping my arm on a shitty plastic shield everytime I do my filter. Even worse when I don’t have one of those loop filter wrench things.

Slant6 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:42

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Nothing wrong with that. I wish that was the case with me, I don’t think I’ve ever done any frivolous wrenching, all of it has been so I can actually drive.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Slant6 03/22/2016 at 20:49

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Sounds like a lot of fun to me. I didn’t care about cars in my youth and now look at me. Condemned by the gods, sentenced to drive old Toyotas until death.

smobgirl > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:57

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That doesn’t sound too awful to me.

Slant6 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 20:57

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It is kinda fun. I guess your cars always worked. I wish I was doing cool mods on cool cars. It is fun, but inconvenient when you need to go places.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Slant6 03/22/2016 at 21:06

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I’m sure Jiffy Lube has performed its fair share of car ending oil changes.

jvirgs drives a Subaru > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 21:15

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The cat is just bitter that you brought that monster dog into the house.

Agrajag > Slant6 03/22/2016 at 21:30

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XJDano > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 21:34

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I just changed oil in the van for the first time. Went ahead and switched to synthetic, and used a K&N filter.

That was kind of a pain in the ass being the first time. Oil filter is on top & a 15/16" socket right under the air tube from the air box to intake. I popped off the tube, had to put that back on, should have bought an air filter teas kinda dirty.

Learned drain plugs are as follows:

Dodge caravan-13

Chevy Equinox -15

Chevy Metro-17

Strange.

wafflesnfalafel > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/22/2016 at 22:59

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love that your cat is laid out like one of the tools, “wrench - check, jack stand - check, oil - check, kitty cat - check.”

TheHondaBro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/23/2016 at 01:28

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I had those same jack stands, until the floor jack I got came with its own jack stands and I returned the ACDelco pair.

Old-Busted-Hotness > Slant6 03/23/2016 at 07:29

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Ask a Jiffy Lube tech. That’s all they do.