Land Pride

[CRF857 600]

Local mower shop hauled this one in.

Owner claimed he just changed the oil, started mowing and it died, wouldn’t turn over.

Shop owner put it on the lift, then exclaimed. OH $&17!!!

picture shows the problem.

[ri702bill 12,866]

Yep, some folks should not play with wrenches.

[ebinmaine 80,412]

Oh boy

[Bill D 3,115]

That'll do it.  Did he even put oil back in it??? I'd expect a bigger mess if he did.  Good parts rig for someone.  

Edited yesterday at 01:57 AM by Bill D

[8ntruck 9,235]

Yup.  I changed the oil on my MF GC1720 today.  Bit of an access wrassle to get something to turn the oil filter.  Got the new filter on and was just about ready to start pouring the new oil I,  when I remembered I had not put the drain plug back in yet.

 

Caught it in time, though.

 

[mrc 1,110]

you can't make stuff like this up!

[Bill D 3,115]

9 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

Yup.  I changed the oil on my MF GC1720 today.  Bit of an access wrassle to get something to turn the oil filter.  Got the new filter on and was just about ready to start pouring the new oil I,  when I remembered I had not put the drain plug back in yet.

 

Caught it in time, though.

 

Could happen to anyone 🙄

[pfrederi 21,083]

1 hour ago, Bill D said:

Could happen to anyone 🙄

 

10 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

Yup.  I changed the oil on my MF GC1720 today.  Bit of an access wrassle to get something to turn the oil filter.  Got the new filter on and was just about ready to start pouring the new oil I,  when I remembered I had not put the drain plug back in yet.

 

Caught it in time, though.

 

  Never ever happened to me...Not! 

[953 nut 68,634]

11 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

Yup.  I changed the oil on my MF GC1720 today.  Bit of an access wrassle to get something to turn the oil filter.  Got the new filter on and was just about ready to start pouring the new oil I,  when I remembered I had not put the drain plug back in yet.

 

Caught it in time, though.

 

Fellow I worked with years ago drained the oil on his Cummings powered Dodge when he got called away to work some overtime. The next morning he dumped three gallons of Mobil One into the engine, about half of it went into the drain pan still in place under the truck, the rest was on the floor.       

[Handy Don 17,348]

Ok, I admit incomplete knowledge, so please school me on why a machine freshly filled with oil and not having its filter iin place didn’t spew oil out the side of the machine. Is the filter only in the pickup side of the oil circulation?

[davem1111 2,319]

  

[Bill D 3,115]

1 hour ago, Handy Don said:

Ok, I admit incomplete knowledge, so please school me on why a machine freshly filled with oil and not having its filter iin place didn’t spew oil out the side of the machine. Is the filter only in the pickup side of the oil circulation?

He changed the oil to a new air based lubricant 

[Handy Don 17,348]

5 minutes ago, Bill D said:

He changed the oil to a new air based lubricant 

So we don’t really know if there was no oil (i.e. none to spew) or that the no-filter had it sucking air instead of oil. 

[ri702bill 12,866]

2 hours ago, Handy Don said:

it sucking air instead of oil. 

Methinks it injested a large chunk of his wallet!! 

[adsm08 5,026]

6 hours ago, Handy Don said:

Is the filter only in the pickup side of the oil circulation?

 

Typically the order of flow through a pressurized oil system is pump, filter, crank bearings, cam bearings, lifters/valve train, and then back to the pan.

 

If the engine was started, with oil in it, it would be EVERYWHERE.

Edited 4 hours ago by adsm08

[Handy Don 17,348]

1 hour ago, adsm08 said:

 

Typically the order of flow through a pressurized oil system is pump, filter, crank bearings, cam bearings, lifters/valve train, and then back to the pan.

 

If the engine was started, with oil in it, it would be EVERYWHERE.

Thanks. This is what I would have guessed.

I’m thinking that the next time I do an oil change I’ll tape the key to a checklist that I can review before trying to start the engine! 

[adsm08 5,026]

6 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

Thanks. This is what I would have guessed.

I’m thinking that the next time I do an oil change I’ll tape the key to a checklist that I can review before trying to start the engine! 

 

Not a bad plan.

 

A few years ago we had an Explorer towed in after a critter got at the main engine harness. In the middle of refilling the magic smoke the customer calls up and asks for us to change the oil. I pulled the filter out (top mounted filter), drain the oil the next time it went up, filled it when it came down, forgot about the filter, and finished the harness about 2 days later.

 

Fired it up, and it ran for about three seconds before it evacuated all six quarts, out the top, all down the engine, and shut off because of the low oil pressure safety.

[Handy Don 17,348]

4 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

Fired it up, and it ran for about three seconds before it evacuated all six quarts,

If you didn’t have a good appreciation of the Explorer’s oil pump before that...

[adsm08 5,026]

11 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

If you didn’t have a good appreciation of the Explorer’s oil pump before that...

 

Appreciation was not what I had for it in he moment.

 

I was already rather annoyed because the rodent damage actually caused an electrical fire, and so in addition to everything else, and that harness not being easy to do, everything, including myself, was covered in flame retardant.

[8ntruck 9,235]

1 hour ago, Handy Don said:

Thanks. This is what I would have guessed.

I’m thinking that the next time I do an oil change I’ll tape the key to a checklist that I can review before trying to start the engine! 

Not a bad idea - especially for those of us who are getting older and wiser.

 

Just tonght, I got the MF GC1720 loaded on the trailer.  I shut off the fuel for transport and noticed that the charge light was on for the emergency trailer brake battery.  Not knowing how much it will take to charge it from the truck battery, I unplugged the trailer from the truck.  Got to remember to plug the trailer in before I leave in the morning.  Should leave a note on the tractor key to turn the fuel back on, too.