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Hi guys. I enjoy reading about the problems encountered by others simply
because misery loves company.
My father was a licensed mechanic. I would never accuse him of being a
teacher, or profess myself to be a good student. I was 10 or 12 years old
when my father showed me how to check the antifreeze level in the radiator
of his 1957 GMC pickup. Basically, uncap the radiator and fill it to the
bottom of the neck.
One day he was busy and I was pestering him. So, to keep me busy, he asked
me to check the radiator and oil levels as he went off to do something else.
I was never shown how to check the oil, but I did see where my dad put the
oil in. And, since the radiator cap and the oil cap looked very similar, it
was obvious to me what to do. Pour in the oil to the bottom of the neck
(just like the radiator). I filled the radiator with water as I was shown,
but after I put in all the oil I could find, I looked in the hole and I
still couldn't see any oil.
I went to inform my father we needed more oil, and of course, he didn't
believe me until I told him I had used all five quarts. He said something I
can't remember and went directly to the truck in haste, pulled out the dip
stick, repeated that thing I can't remember, and I asked him, "What's that?"
There was oil half way up the stick! That is when I learned how to check the
oil level. The old beast of a truck smoked pretty heavily for a while. I
wish that was the only dumb mechanical blunder I've done but I'll save my
other stories for future embarrassments.
Ivan in Ontario, Canada
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