Ready to scream at my oil filter

[driverofchuckles]

Damn right I go by the book! ☺

I use Bosch filters and after finally getting my view to line up with the seal point, found that I had a few more turns to go. No leaks!

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by driverofchuckles

Damn right I go by the book! ☺

I guess you have absolutely no choice but to do that, all things considered. However many people may die in the process!

Here is a little story for you however.

I build circuit boards and things to NASA specs for the space shuttle, space station and all kinds space going and military things that are a BIG DEAL. I wouldn't DREAM of doing it their way if I thought better of it!

In 1996 my company built a $15 million dollar solid state data recorder for EOS 1 (earth observing satellite) probably the most involved landsat ever launched. It cost a billion dollars. All of our previous ones were tape based. (RCA)

They called the three of us in a room, told us what had to be done, and gave us three months to build the 150 boards that went into it. I told my bosses "You better assign another three people to this job because we wont be done in six months!" No they said its going to be just the three of you.

(it took 12 people a year, eventually)

Early on building the boards each memory board (there were like 135 of them) had 22 terminals that had to be swaged in place with a special elliptical swedge, then soldered. Only problem was the boards were so big the throat of the machine that held the tools for the swaging the terminals wouldn't accommodate the entire board. Incredibly, this held up production for a month while the engineers farted around!

There was a NASA "referee" overseeing us who talked with management of the plant on a daily basis. I went up to him and said "If you let me I can swedge these terminals with a Philips screwdriver and a ball peen hammer and we can get these boards moving!" Like me he was very concerned about the delay.

He looked both ways to make sure no one could hear him, thought about it for a while and told me to go ahead and do it!

I did the work as described, the boards were built and tested, the device built, put in the spacecraft and launched, the EOS orbited the earth for eight years, worked perfectly, and was deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere so no one will ever see the marks from the Philips screwdriver I used!

PS Although it took almost two years for us to build the device, other contractors building THEIR junk for the spacecraft took even longer to do their jobs (probably waiting for engineers to make up their minds!) so nobody noticed how late we were doing our job!

[IllusionX]

Originally Posted by driverofchuckles

Damn right I go by the book!

I use Bosch filters and after finally getting my view to line up with the seal point, found that I had a few more turns to go. No leaks!

I had issues with a bosh filter. Never again.

It started leaking after a couple months. I had not done my 5000 miles yet. And it would leak a little bit. I would tighten it and it stopped for a bit. Then it again 2 weeks later.