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Originally Posted by RacyTracy
I remember being with my dad in the garage while he worked on his Porsche. I don't really remember him letting me do much though....I was mostly watching. Ask your dad if he's old enough to remember when oil came in cans instead of plastic bottles. You had to push a pointy spout into a metal lid on a cardboard can. It was really messy.
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If you think that is old time, I used to pump bulk straight weight oil into 1 qt. glass oil bottles for my grandfather at his Standard Oil service station. The oil came in 50 gallon barrels and you had to attach a hand pump to the top them and then pump each glass bottle and screw on a foot long tapered metal spout top to the bottle when you were done. You would place all these filled bottles into metal baskets (kind of like the ones used for milk bottles) that were labeled with the weight of the oil. When a customer stopped to "fill 'er up" and you cleaned their windshield, checked the fan belt and their oil and water while you pumped their Ethyl gas (self serve gas didn't exist then--when was the last time your car was fully serviced at the pump?), you would offer them a quart of oil from the glass bottles if they were down a quart and they would respond with the oil weight they were using. The long tapered tops were there so you could get to the oil filler on the old tall engines without spilling oil on the engine and to keep you from leaning on their fender while you poured it in. I still remember when those glass bottles were replaced with all metal cans, but my grandfather still kept them out on display filled with the oil. I also remember there were no caps for those metal tops so the longer the bottles sat, the more dust would get into the oil.
Those were different times! O.K., now that I have proven myself to be as old as dirt, we can continue on with this thread!
Great job on that oil change #2! You will make a lot of boys jealous and more than a bit nervous when you get older and show them how to fix their car while they don't have a clue as to what needs to be done!
(BTW, I just adjusted the ignition points on my BMW during its spring tune up............)