The mess...

[Jensen]

So, I'm in my garage, changing the oil on my L300. It's no different than usual, I pulled the plug and watched liter after liter of sludge black diesel goop drain from my pan. My pan's capable of holding 8L of oil, but even still, 6.5L of that roofing tar black death is quite a sight to behold. I felt like I was staring into the La Brea tar pits as I installed my new crush washer and put the plug back into position. I then started to undo the filter, a bit sticky at first, but after a slow turn or two it comes off as well with a gush and a plop of oil drizzling into the already full looking pan. As I slowly move the filter turn after turn backwards off the threaded base a thought occurs to me. "Boy it would suck if I dropped the filter into the full pan of oi!!!!!!" SLPOOOOOSH!!!!

I crawled out from under the van looking like a Valdez sea bird circa March 1989, the floor of my beautiful new(ish) garage... even worse. As bad as the mess was the situation wasn't completely dire, my wife was not at home and would not return for some time. I sprang into action. Being totally unprepared I did not have any floor dry. Nor did I have shop towels, I barely even had paper towels (I'm usually incredibly clean when I work on vehicles, if cat's worked on automobiles their garages would most likely look a lot like mine). I quickly cleaned my self up then raided the house for whatever paper towels I could find. Sadly, there weren't enough. I had to stoop to toilet paper and Kleenex to get the job done (it was a s#itload of oil) but other than a big greasy stain (if you could lift my garage floor up and hold it towards light I think you'd be able to see through it now) the floor is sorta clean-ish. I then re-positioned the cars, my wife will be driving the Deli tomorrow morning so I moved it outside. Then, I parked my car over the bulk of the stain. With any luck, she'll walk right past it, go to work, and I can rush out and get some de-greaser and floor dry and take care of the residual before she's any wiser!

If I fail, I'll get the "look" and I'll no longer be able to feel high and mighty as she's usually the klutzy one.

Pray for me!

[delicat]

hahaha good one!

PICTURES???

[mararmeisto]

hahaha good one!

PICTURES???

To heck with pictures, I wanna watch to footage!

According to the advertisement, CLR can clean up the concrete if you still got a 'spot'.

[konadog]

I hear ya - same thing happened to me a while back - Damn lucky I didn't get it in my eyes. YUUUUCK!

[Jaz]

"Boy it would suck if I dropped the filter into the full pan of oi!!!!!!" SLPOOOOOSH!!!!

Yep, done that before! In the mother in law's garage too!

[Jensen]

*Update*

She noticed...

[after oil]

my shop has a permanent carpet of veggie oil soaked kitty litter and cedar shavings an inch deep

[thedjjack]

Oil stains on the shop floor are where oil stains should be!

This is normal...now breath....everything will be ok.

In hundreds of oil changes 3 worst ones (all in highschool, a long time ago):

1) Draining oil in wind storm outside. Pull plug boiling oil blows in face.

2) Having the filter O-ring stay on and adding a second filter O-ring on top. Starting car and having it pump 5L of new oil out onto driveway!

3) forgetting to put the drain plug back in and having new oil run through motor into oil pan!

[TardisDeli]

OOPS, she noticed .... so now your response is But Honey, I did it all for your benefit, so the van would run nice and smooth and reliably for you to drive in this nasty winter weather ... see that oil just shows how much I care about you ... honey ... hey honey ... could I please sleep in the house tonight it's kinda cold here in the van .... honey ...

Yeah, I'm on Her side of course, Christine. (Oooh Jay, thanks for changing the headlight bulb, you're so wonderful honey ... but why don't I have any side lights now ... oh you FORGOT to reinstall the sidelights before putting the cover on ... and thus I have been driving for 2 days now with NO side lights or front turn signals .... OMG ...).

[Jensen]

the only positive thing about her now knowing is I'm no longer in a rush to hide the evidence by cleaning it up.

[mararmeisto]

Update: try TSP Cleaner.

[DeliTan]

http://www.ehow.com/how_4797582_coca-co ... tains.html

john