Well I'll be!

After having changed the oil on this car at least twenty five times, it appears that somehow I over-tightened the oil filter cover thereby crushing the O-ring and causing a massive seepage the garage floor. Looking at the filter housing from above it looked as though the o-ring had melted and after removing the cover and tightening by hand with about a half a turn with the wrench the leaking is no more.

The nagging thought is "how come this never happened before?".

Am I ready for the looney bin?

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)