Oil change disaster advice needed

I go by the tire-shop ugga method.

Its two short and one long ugga, but that last ugga stays with a death grip on the trigger until the tool gets hot enough to brand your palm. Then you move one nut to the left and repeat.


...my spark plugs never see it coming.

 

Didn't know that early C2s still had drum brakes. Nice pics! Looks like a cool shop. Thanks for posting.

 

before I believe 1972, Disk brakes were an option.

 

1965 was first year for disc brakes, also last year drum brakes were an option.

 

For the Corvette I'm guessing. All cars from the federal stand point had to have disk on the front at a minimum starting in 1972. I believe Dodge had an extra year for some reason.

 

I prefer 3 ftm-lb of force.

 

Yeah we were talking about Corvettes, but now I see your point.

By the way the drum brakes on the c2 corvette were HUGE. Much larger than say a Tacomas rear drum brakes.

 

Interesting, I did not know that. I had a '71 Mustang with drums on the front, but found out there was a '71.5 that came with disc brakes. Braking in that car was . . . interesting at times.

 

So Rannyhill... How about an update? Have things been resolved? To your satisfaction?

Or did did the dealership and Toyota find a way to put the problem on you?

 

But the dealer is on the record for stating it was a nicked o-ring. No need to prove anything. My point is they say it was a bad component but the solution isn't coming from Toyota. The solution is coming from the "dealer" which suggests they know the excuse won't hold up with the manufacturer but sounds more innocent to the customer.

 

They probably just haven't yet located another truck that had same issue.

 

Funny you say this. Post #653 essentially says the same thing.
I bet we can’t even recreate that problem. I’d even venture a guess saying if the o-ring wasn’t even installed, making it worse than a nick, that the oil wouldn’t drain all-out within the 4 miles or so you indicated you had driven.

 

Only one way to find out I'm not gonna volunteer. I've seen what an oil leak will do at idle oil pressures. Send it 5 miles down the road at who knows how many RPMS, I'll pass on that test. There's a reason people check for leaks immediately after an oil change. You don't wanna find out the hard way 5 miles down the road that you had a little bitty drip.

 

My 74 VW had 4 wheel drums.

 

orings get nicked on install, they don't come that way. Even if they did you would need to prove the installer didn't nick it on install, which unless the install was filmed you couldn't.

 

CCTV. my guess the tech was interrupted just after he hand tightened the cap, maybe by a service writer asking a question about something else he had worked on and when he went back he forgot he did not tighten the cap. wild guess.

 

Auto trivia for the day:
About 1976 was the last year for front drums on the domestics.
Only on the end of model older generation cars:

Chrysler A bodies - Dart, Valiant.
Small AMC cars - Hornet, Gremlin.
Ford - Maverick, Comet
GM went all disk by 1975 I believe, the last being the Nova cars.

 

Yeah, but all this Technian had to do to prevent this entire debacle from happening in the first place was do a quick post job QC check. He would have noticed the leak (pretty sure they admitted to finding a fresh puddle of oil in the bay). Sometimes (actually most times), it's the little things!

 

I don't believe the skid plate has a drain hole. You can't see a filter leak at idle with the skid plate on. Another design flaw if that is correct. I am sure the tech is not going to lower the truck, check for leaks, then lift back up to put skid plate on.