[V8] Fwd: Re: Flushing properly

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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Kalbskopf 
> Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:55 pm
> Subject: [V8] Flushing properly
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> 
> snipped stuff .....
> 
>  If you don't see the oil slick, you've missed an important step.
>  You must leave the old rubber sealing gasket ring thingy from 
>  the old 
>  filter in place . . . well not exactly in place. It has to be  flat 
>  enough to make you think the new filter is tightening just 
> hunky  dorily but sort of diagonal so it leaves a huge gap.
>  
> ********
 Don't feel bad, I actually paid to have a monkey lad do this 
 last year. Back in Jan or Feb, I forget which, of last year it 
 was time to do an oil change and it was just to damn cold and I 
 was just to lazy to do it myself, so I dropped it off in the 
 morning at the local garage that specializes in MBs, BMWs, and 
 Audis, and had them change it. Picked it up that night, drove to 
 work next morning and when I was leaving work at the end of the 
 day I noticed a fresh oil stain under the car about the size of 
 a small plate. I said WTF, I'm getting very good at saying that 
 with the V8, and took a look underneath and see that the oil pan 
 is awash with oil. Checked the oil level and it's down about a 2 
 qts. Bought some oil, topped it off and drove back to monkey lad 
 land. They put it up on a lift checked it out, tightened the 
 filter, drove it around and it still leaked. At this point they 
 decide it must be a defective filter, so they pull it off, 
 install another filter, and test drive it. It still leaks. They 
 pull it in again, pull the filter and take a real good look at 
 the filter housing and see that there are not one rubber gasket, 
 but two rubber gaskets jammed in there. In addition there is 
 still a gasket on the filter that they had just tried to 
 install. So it appears that you can get a seal with 2 gaskets if 
 they are seated properly, but with three it won't seal. I must 
 have drove around for about two months with a dual gasket oil 
 filter. At least they didn't charge me for the filter change, 
 and I'm back to changing my own oil.