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Originally Posted by SC-986
The shop that installed the system must have over torqued the drain plug right from the jump.
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This kind of thing happens all the time I fear. The one and only time I had someone else change the oil in my box was when I had it in for something else that I wasn't comfortable/hadn't time to do myself (don't even remember what it was). Figured, what the heck, it's due for an oil change, why not just have them do it since it was gonna be on a lift anyway.
I had the spin-on filter adapter in place at the time. I believe I supplied the filter (a Wix), and maybe the oil (previously purchased intending to do it myself).
Next time I went to do my own oil change the spin-on adapter came off the base on the car, ie came off
with the filter. (In many oil changes, I had never once had that happen...nor have I since). I worked and worked trying to separate the two. Finally gave up and took it to an Auto Zone where I've done a fair amount of business. The guy took me in back and, using their vise and a number of different (sometimes radical
) techniques FINALLY busted the damn thing loose. It was absolutely ridiculous how tight they had cranked it...it was as if they had use a breaker bar or similar to tighten it.
I've liked that shop in the past, but this got me to re-thinking it and maybe finding some other place for jobs I don't want to do myself.