OIL MESSES....How dirty have you been? - Page 2 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

SirNik84 · #16 04-14-2009, 04:21 PM

my worst spill was not in the Benz ether, although the constant oil leaks creates the NEVER rust option.

I was changing the oil in my dads F350. Its an 88 with a 7.3 + the banks turbo kit. anyway, changing the oil he tells me, "you have to let it drain for a while." so I help him with yard work for a few hours and then go back to the truck. I untwist the oil filter and get is all most all the way unthreaded them all of a sudden about a gallon of oil falls on my FACE. the truck is very similar to the Mercedes with the oil cooler lines coming out of the oil filter housing, only instead of the filter being in a tower and coming out the top, it unscrews from the bottom. so the oil cooler dumped on my face!

them my dad says "didn't I tell you, you gotta pop a hole in the filter, thats why I told you to let it drain for a long time" as i'm staning there with oil all over my head and face!

Thanks Dad!

pawoSD · #17 04-14-2009, 05:02 PM

I like that my car leaks a bit of fluids, it keeps the underside coated in oil and in MI, thats awesome, it really does prevent rust!

sunedog · #18 04-14-2009, 07:37 PM

My embarrassing post number 2 on this subject:

I have a Honda outboard motor on my boat. The crankcase holds 6 quarts. I knew that because I looked up in the manual how many quarts of oil I needed to buy.

I put my cheapo 5 quart capacity plastic oil drain pan under the outboard and pulled the plug. (You smart folks already know where this is going.....)

You can't, I repeat CAN'T, put 6 quarts of used oil in a 5 quart oil drain pan.

Big stain in the street in front of the house.

OMEGAMAN · #19 04-14-2009, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mytmousemalibu

As ive read the pages of our forum, alot of us have admited to some rather embaressing oil spills from our beloved rides! I have made plenty in my life, Im an auto technician, its part of my life. But so far, the SD and I have avoided the hazmat oil spills so far, but I feel compeled to share with you, my own Exxon Valdez moment

I wish i had pictures of proof and its not an M-B but i think i got ya'll beat on vehicular oil messes with the 2500HD! I had an injector let go a while back and since there under the valve covers on the LB7 model code engines, it proceded to add about 2 gallons diesel (repeatedly) into my crankcase! Well goin down the highway i had no idea somthin was wrong till i slowed down and it stalled from low fuel pressure, and then i caught a wiff of diesel.....Hmm WTF is goin on here??? And i swereved into an empty parking lot (at nighttime) and looked down the street in town where i saw a trail of shineyness as far as i could see....All the way to my truck

I looked at her and see a river of nasty diesel diluted oil running out from it! Course at freeway speeds and a superfull crankcase, it was belching this cocktail of fuel/oil out everywhere! The ENTIRE underside of the truck was soaked, as well as, rocker panels, fenders, wheels, tires, tailgate, bed, 75% of the truck was coated

What a giant @ss mess! Im pretty sure the pressure washer is nearly dead now after that clean-up!

That takes the cake for me, but my truck should NEVER rust

Damn good thing that engine uses a road draft tube. Imagine what would happen if all that fuel and oil started going into the air intake like on a ford diesel

mytmousemalibu · #20 04-14-2009, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by OMEGAMAN

Damn good thing that engine uses a road draft tube. Imagine what would happen if all that fuel and oil started going into the air intake like on a ford diesel

Ya, No Kiddin, A runaway on a Dmax would be a scary event! That sucker would pull up over 100mph very fast! Neutraling it would be my only hope! And followed by big boom of rods out the pan

It actually has a separation system that vacs out both valvecovers and liquids go through the separator and back to the pan W/ a small atmosheric vent. It became overwhelmed rather fast! I know I did good when i coated most of the main street through Augusta!

Other Notable messes:

We used to run a 69 Nova Pro-Mod drag car! Huge alcohol burning supercharged 526ci Arias/Fontana Hemi! It runs nice thick honey like 50-60w race oil.....carries 90-100 psi oil pressure at idle! It has a 14qt dry-sump oiling system (external oil pump with tank and oil scavenged from the pan via large lines and AN fittings) Well at our 1st race last season, after instslling our fresh motor, i put all the lines on, well i thought

One of which return to the tank off the oil pump was just sitting on the other fitting and with AN fittings, there kinda easy to miss that! Well we fire it up in the pits for warm-up and this is now all in milliseconds after it fires... out of my peripheral vision, i see this large green blob stream of fluid coming right at my face

I almost get my eyes closed fast enough

and this slug of thick gooey oil hits me right in the face! It does burn in the eyes more than one might think! What a mess on me and the car! I looked like a swimmed in it! And this oil laughs at brake cleaner, carb spray, etc!

One time my dad was posta change the oil in it, and he did drain the oil tank but forgot the oil pan! And added the full empty amount of new oil! The track workers wernt to happy cleaning out "trail" up that it burped out during the burnout

I too have fallen victim to the "tranny pan fliud slosh" !!! Im thinkin oh i got this and it starts to tip and it becomes a case of me correcting my grip and overcorrecting untill I endup wearing it or the floor does! Its always the best with dirty/nasty BURNT ATF

Icing on the cake is making a mess, get mad, start cleaning, and slip and fall in it AND endup injured

TylerH860 · #21 04-14-2009, 11:44 PM

Who would have thought I was winning at something this past year.

bustedbenz · #22 04-15-2009, 03:02 AM

I cracked my oil pan on a monster speed bump/brick crosswalk unit one time, and started what I can only be thankful was a slow leak. Drove 10 or 15 miles not knowing I had trouble, and parked on the Blue Ridge Parkway (of all places to be an oil dumper, right?) to watch a meteor shower. Never, fortunately, lost oil pressure. Walked back around the car two hours later and noticed the remaining 1.5 gallons of Rotella floating out from under the car.

#23 04-15-2009, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by LUVMBDiesels

Speaking of gas, this did not leave a stain, but boy it was fun!. I was siphoning out the old gas from my snow blower one October after having forgotten to run it dry in April. I could not find my thin hose so I took a four foot piece of garden hose stuck one end in the tank the other in my mouth and gave a suck. I swallowed what felt like a quart of the old nasty gas (beer bong anyone?) before getting the hose out of my mouth. When I woke up I called the doctor and he said that unless I passed out again I would be OK just not to go near open flame! I burped up gas for weeks!

Oh man, I have done the exact same thing - trying to start a siphon of gas out of an old lawn tractor, could not find a narrow tube so like a fool I used a garden hose. Take a good pull on a garden hose to start a siphon of gasoline.

That's a mistake you will only make once! I swallowed a good mouthful of gasoline and was burping the fumes for probably a month. Good thing I am not a smoker!

Changing oil in my 400E last weekend - I have one of those closed / bottle-type drain pans. The motor was nice and hot to get the oil flowing out quickly. When I unscrewed the drain plug that SOB was HOT and I dropped it right into the pan. Wouldn't you know it is the perfect size to fit in the hole in the top of that drain pan like a stopper.

Only choice I had was to shove my hand into steaming hot oil in the rapidly-filling top of the pan and fetch the drain plug. Ouch! But it beat having the driveway coated with 8+ quarts of used Mobil 1.

*CURSES* Might be time to pick up an oil extractor...

Matt L · #24 04-15-2009, 09:23 PM

I have two of them for you.

Florida, ~78

I was a teenager, riding a water buffalo. Time to change the fluids.

I drain the transmission and radiator, refill the transmission with motor oil, then start filling the radiator.

As soon as I start pouring antifreeze mix into it, it starts coming out the bottom. I'd forgotten the plug. I look underneath, and had forgotten the transmission drain plug too, but that oil takes a bit of a path to get there, so it was just then pouring out.

Missouri, ~84

My father bought an old Chevy wagon. A '66, I think, for $250. It ran, drove fairly well and had new tires.

After he had that car for a few months, we were motoring along (I think he was driving) and smoke started pouring out from under the hood. Shut down the motor and popped the hood, and motor oil was drooling off of absolutely everything. The underside of the hood was dripping with it, and it was evaporating off of the exhaust. No fire, thank goodness.

The car had burst a radiator hose. I noticed that after much looking around; there was a small split in one of the big hoses, and the radiator had been filled with motor oil.

I bet some of the old-timers can see where this goes. There is only one reason to fill the radiator with motor oil, and that is because it has a cracked block.