Prophylactic check on my “DARK” engine oil

Maybe he wears nitrile gloves while doing his oil change, like me. That black oil stains everything!

Just in case anyone wondered how you got the oil from the can into the motor.

(and note that usually those spouts would hang around covered with oil and collect dust)

meerschm said:

(and note that usually those spouts would hang around covered with oil and collect dust)

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You always wrapped them in a rag (old tshirt) that would eventually become saturated with oil and collect dust.

meerschm said:

Just in case anyone wondered how you got the oil from the can into the motor.

(and note that usually those spouts would hang around covered with oil and collect dust)

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Thanks for the PICs

Remember this well

Pop had a Texaco Service Station

IndigoBlueWagon said:

More appropriate use is in medical situations, such as a prophylactic dose of antibiotics.

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I would tend to agree.

2015vwgolfdiesel said:

Pop had a Texaco Service Station

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You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the big red Texaco star.

volmaniac said:

You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the big red Texaco star.

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We must be in the same generation

TV's were round very expensive, and yes, you can trust your car to (my pop)

Of course cars were a lot simpler in those days. Still if you needed say an engine rebuild, tranny/differential rebuild, body work or an alignment you would go somewhere else. Oh, and working at a SS was close to minimum wage.

Remember the air cooled Corvairs? Back in the day I heard of some station jockey thinking the oil fill was for coolant and filled some poor guys air cooled Corvair engine up with water. The oil fill did sorta look like it was for a cooling system.

One time"Mike" didn't get a van on the lift right and it starts to slip off while it's up in the air. He goes running over and is trying to hold the van from falling off the lift while yelling "Let it down !!!" While letting it down, I yelled back at him "get out of there before you get crushed!!!"

No, Mike didn't get killed that day. Fortunately Darwin must have been on break.

Ol'Rattler said:

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Remember the air cooled Corvairs? Back in the day I heard of some station jockey thinking the oil fill was for coolant and filled some poor guys air cooled Corvair engine up with water. The oil fill did sorta look like it was for a cooling system.
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The mechanic at the Texaco station where I took my first car (not a Corvair) for work got a lot of Corvair customers. He told me a secret to keeping them running well: inspecting the air cooling system and keeping it and the fins clean. Apart from lawn mowers, probably the only air cooled engines most mechanics saw besides the Corvair were VWs.

Rico567 said:

Apart from lawn mowers, probably the only air cooled engines most mechanics saw besides the Corvair were VWs.

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I think you're forgetting the air-cooled porsches, all motorcycles, deutz tractors, and a variety of other applications. My uncle worked at a service station in the sixties and personally owned both a corvair and a Porsche 912.

yes that seems legit diesel engines allways turn the oil black after the engine has been started. well unless they are very new, you can get the oil a bit clearer with very frequent oil changing but its nothing to worry about especially if you use good quality lubricant

Oil used to even come in metal cans lads, then the cardboard/paper cans then plastic. Never saw the glass bottles. Diesels will turn oil black like road tar in just starting an engine after an oil change, that's the way they are. And there are folks who have apparently never heard of the metric system either. A lad asked his dad what a liter was so he could put the correct amount in his motorcycle, and dad said "about a gallon". Trying to get a gallon or two of oil into a bike that called for a liter and a half or so didn't work, but made a gawdawful mess.