Ahh yes. The great American pasttime – changing one’s oil. I feel mighty manly when I do it.
When you’re changing oil on a car that you’ve newly acquired – make sure you have a strap wrench. Using a pipe wrench impresses no one. Those guys at the dealership don’t want anyone taking the old filters off but themselves – the thing was practically welded on.
Success!!
That’s the stuff baby! (That’s A/C condensation – I didn’t spill any oil)
New filter, and easy release valve (for future self-oil changes).
Hell, I might as well do both.
Nothing more American than pulling your two gasoline burning cars out of the garage, unloading a bunch of used petroleum by-product, then reloading them with new petroleum by-product. I’m so proud.
And…
While I was changing/fighting the air filter on the 2004 – I glance over and saw a neighbor girl checking me out. Either she was busting me looking at her, or I was busting her looking at me.
Of course, she might have been looking over because I was grumbling – and the whole neighborhood probably heard it. I should probably check “Missed Connections” on Craigslist tonight….
” I looked over and you were cursing Honda Engineers’ lineage – it was soooo cute. Tell me exactly what you said and we’ll meet up!! XOXOXO”
Who freaking designed the oil dipstick on a 2004 Accord anyway??? They need to be shot! How hard can it be to make a straight dipstick? It’s got so many kinks (whoo-hoo!) that it’s a bitch to get back in. Maybe I just need practice…..
Well. This is certainly going in a direction I didn’t expect.
I think they tried to make the air filter cover as much like a rubik’s cube as possible as to prevent people from changing it themselves. I ran out of oil, so I need to run back over to AutoZone and get some. I think I’ve got another post in me for tonight…… I need more milk too, so I’ll try a little later.
