[DeTomaso] oil leak, any one ever have this happen to them.

[Bill Lewis]

Holy Smokes!  Was this in WWII!!!





> From: JDeRyke at aol.com
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:35:34 -0500
> To: asajay at asajay.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] oil leak, any one ever have this happen to them.
> 
> In a message dated 2/27/10 9:53:57 AM, asajay at asajay.com writes:
> 
> > The only time this happened to me, was when I failed to note the o-ring 
> > from the old filter stuck to the block and not the filter.  When the new 
> > filter went on, it broke loose the old o-ring which pinched it in an odd spot 
> > allowing a leak.... Now every time I do an oil change, I check for the old 
> > o-ring on the filter and manually clean the mating surface on the block to 
> > be sure.
> > 
> I'd forgotten.... An incident like this once allowed me to visit beautiful 
> Johnson Island out in the central Pacific Ocean, when someone left an old 
> gasket on one of our plane's oil filters during a 100-hour check. 2 hours west 
> of Hawaii headed for Guam, we'd pumped 40 gallons of oil overboard when the 
> dashboard went awsh..-red. Johnson Island (a satellite tracking station) 
> isn't much to write home about but we were VERY glad for dry land to fix the 
> plane, compared to the alternative.... J DeRyke
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