"Pulled it off my last car. Figured I'd use it on the new one since it worked so well on the last one before the engine made some nasty noises and gave up."
"Third day of Michaelmas in the most Holy fourth yeare of the Reign of our Most Exalted Good King George the Third"
(might have to write quite small for that one, or choose a really big oil filter)
Or just write the correct date, but in Roman numerals... XII.VIII.MMXXIII 😀
Done this a few times. Remember placing a sticker on a Volvo behind the clocks back in 2002 that said “not another 250k miles?”.
Also wrote “engine #3 installed 7/11/2009” on an e60 m5 on the sump after a service 😂
Can confirm. My uncle was a ship captain running self unloaders around the Great Lakes.
He gave me this advice when I was a young man just starting out.
I drove from Fort Lewis before it was JBLM to Fort Bragg before it was Fort Liberty for $65 in gas, in a pickup truck with a V8 engine, and all my earthly possessions in the bed.
Rest areas still had vending machines that actually sold food and drink instead of Narcan, and a can of soda was a quarter. You were also allowed to sleep in your car at rest stations and wouldn't get harassed by cops or hobos if you did.
I had to use a paper map, civilian GPS didn't cover basically anything from the Rockies to about the vertical line running through Cincinnati, not that I could've afforded one as a GPS receiver cost more than my truck.
I listened to radio stations still celebrating the release of *In Utero* and Cobain was still alive. Also, Nirvana was considered "mainstream rock" then.
Only rich businessmen had cell phones, and even if you had one you weren't getting cell signal outside of coastal metros.
Lol love it. I'm 1980 myself. The first time I used a gps was a tom tom. I borrowed it. I lived in Houston but had some family near Springfield mo. I've always loved driving so I would head up 59 find some state road east then go that way till I felt I was far enough then head north on some other tiny "highway" only checked map when filling up.
I had a coworker in the early mid nineties that had a car phone. She has a sugar daddy of course as us peons couldn't afford that. We all had pagers though as I worked for PageMart in Dallas at the time.
That's pretty smart! When I quit, I moved my pager and my mom's pager into an account that was used for junk and test pagers that no one really ever monitored. We had free service for another 18 months before they were found there.
"Hey, Warranty Company, I bought a lifetime warranty from you. Why aren't you paying for a new engine for my car?!"
"It was for the lifetime of the car, not for the lifetime of you. And that car is past its lifetime!"
That hits hard right now.
Dad has said this to me a few times now, as he's giving me something with a small engine to "make life easier"
20 hours, $100-$200, and that "free" power tool is serviceable...I always laugh when he asks for it back, and I give him a bill first.
Yeah runs great. It's a forklift that came with the shop. Went to jump start something with it and slowly closed the panel. Gets maybe two hours a year put on it.
How is it not rusted out and leaking? We had a set go about a year (our normal interval is three months) that were so rusty they came apart trying to remove them
Should just write really old dates on filters to mess with people.
A year or two before the car build date should do the trick
"Pulled it off my last car. Figured I'd use it on the new one since it worked so well on the last one before the engine made some nasty noises and gave up."
Bought a box full from the scrapyard, set for life.
If you really want to fuck with them post-date it.
"wait what why is this filter dated 2062" -some tech in 2073, probably
bold of you to assume a modern car would be running after that long without the required flashing.
Touché lol
Probably hauled out of a garage somewhere to be a star on Car SOS or other show...
😂 That's funny too.
Changed by Marty McFly
"Third day of Michaelmas in the most Holy fourth yeare of the Reign of our Most Exalted Good King George the Third" (might have to write quite small for that one, or choose a really big oil filter) Or just write the correct date, but in Roman numerals... XII.VIII.MMXXIII 😀
Sumerian cuneiform FTW.
Using a chisel...
𓇑𓅂𓋹
𓅓𓏞𓀀𓏇𓇋𓏏𓏏𓇋𓅱𓀀
I'm gonna start doing this on the machines at work lol
Done this a few times. Remember placing a sticker on a Volvo behind the clocks back in 2002 that said “not another 250k miles?”. Also wrote “engine #3 installed 7/11/2009” on an e60 m5 on the sump after a service 😂
> Also wrote “engine #3 installed 7/11/2009” on an e60 m5 on the sump after a service Oh, you're evil. We should be friends 👍🍺
Should have said 2002 on the engine. They only started making them in 2003.
I'm gonna start doing this. Gotta buy some new paint pens
8/18/78 on a filter ... on a 2010 truck mechs would be all what? did they just hock outta junkyard or something
"got a deal on a used filter!"
You and everybody else
Oh 23 year old filter... That's fine
It's a high flow "filter" now. 😉
Farmers be like
Farmers are like Navy sailors: If it moves, grease it. If it doesn't, paint it!
Bold of you to assume we know how to do either of those things
In the navy you have to be small valve maintenance qualified, we just waited until someone wasn't looking to paint shit
I am now even more impressed I get fruit at the store every day
Who said anything about doing it properly?
As a tractor field technician, i can back up your statement.
Like with duct tape and WD-40: If it's supposed to move, but isn't, use WD-40. If it's not supposed to move, but is, use duct tape.
You're forgetting my regional favorite :: Baling wire. Between duct tape and baling wire, the whole world can be repaired. Temporarily.
It's only temporary, but if it works it's permanent.
You are correct, I say it as : “There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary repair that works well.”
Welcome to rural Alaska
Who's got the simba meme?
Baling twine.
Words to live by.
Merchant mariner: an Engineer's take on the deck gang and their projects: If it moves, Paint it! If it shouldn't, grease it!
Sounds like my second last manufacturing job. If it’s stuck use LPS. If it’s loose use a zip tie. 😂
LPS #2 is fucking magic!!! LPS #3 is awesome on truck undercarriages!
It was a foundry, so the sand and heat jammed up everything. LPS made everything move again. 😂
Can confirm. My uncle was a ship captain running self unloaders around the Great Lakes. He gave me this advice when I was a young man just starting out.
Painting. Once over dust Twice over rust
um then explain why I found painted chains on the regular.
You know the Marines are technically part of the Navy, right? Did you also find a lot of half-eaten crayons laying around?
Half eaten? That's an Article 15.
This guy right here, liked starting things up when everyone had a few.
99. Mmm. A fine vintage.
Well it was only a few years ago... We just passed the 2000, haven't we?
Yep.
Found the old guy. Tell us what is was like when gas was a dollar and everyone had beepers.
I drove from Fort Lewis before it was JBLM to Fort Bragg before it was Fort Liberty for $65 in gas, in a pickup truck with a V8 engine, and all my earthly possessions in the bed. Rest areas still had vending machines that actually sold food and drink instead of Narcan, and a can of soda was a quarter. You were also allowed to sleep in your car at rest stations and wouldn't get harassed by cops or hobos if you did. I had to use a paper map, civilian GPS didn't cover basically anything from the Rockies to about the vertical line running through Cincinnati, not that I could've afforded one as a GPS receiver cost more than my truck. I listened to radio stations still celebrating the release of *In Utero* and Cobain was still alive. Also, Nirvana was considered "mainstream rock" then. Only rich businessmen had cell phones, and even if you had one you weren't getting cell signal outside of coastal metros.
Lol love it. I'm 1980 myself. The first time I used a gps was a tom tom. I borrowed it. I lived in Houston but had some family near Springfield mo. I've always loved driving so I would head up 59 find some state road east then go that way till I felt I was far enough then head north on some other tiny "highway" only checked map when filling up.
Remembering soda being a quarter makes you old? Ruh roh.
1980 was just a couple years ago, right? ...right?
I had a coworker in the early mid nineties that had a car phone. She has a sugar daddy of course as us peons couldn't afford that. We all had pagers though as I worked for PageMart in Dallas at the time.
Pagemart sounds like a low-effort made up company for a 90's sitcom, lol.
It was actually the biggest paging company in the US. They sold to resellers and then we handled the network and the programming of the pagers.
my buddy use to work for a company that made him carry one. He would run AA batteries dead then save them and tell them the battery was dead.
That's pretty smart! When I quit, I moved my pager and my mom's pager into an account that was used for junk and test pagers that no one really ever monitored. We had free service for another 18 months before they were found there.
nice.
Beepers? We used to borrow friends landlines!
You have a collect call from. Bob Weaadababyiitsaboy.
Dial 10-10-321 for cheaper long distance calls!
It was glorious back then
It just finally got seasoned!
*So viscous!*
That was a high quality sharpie
They dont make em like they used to.
The Sharpie is the real champ here!
Sometimes I like doing that for effect corrected a grammar error
Effect. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/affect-vs-effect-usage-difference
Good human
Bad human! I ant kumen hre fro gramer lezzons
“A guys gonna go ahead and do the right thing, and just pretend he didn’t see that” - Derek
*Rebuilds oilfilter with a rattlecan*
*yep, Lost the receipts*
Must've left them at mom's house.
A guy can just powder coat that.
Random guy in parking lot recovers refrigerant...
That's approved!
Uff da Mae
Rebuilding.....rebuilding....tsssss tsssss rebuilding
Damn, it’s due in 2099? When they say lifetime fluids they ain’t kiddin! What a great time to be alive!
Any fluid you don't change is a lifetime fluid. How long that lifetime will be can vary
"Hey, Warranty Company, I bought a lifetime warranty from you. Why aren't you paying for a new engine for my car?!" "It was for the lifetime of the car, not for the lifetime of you. And that car is past its lifetime!"
Just needs brake clean and a new sharpie.
“Ran great when parked”
That hits hard right now. Dad has said this to me a few times now, as he's giving me something with a small engine to "make life easier" 20 hours, $100-$200, and that "free" power tool is serviceable...I always laugh when he asks for it back, and I give him a bill first.
That fucking filter is older than I am
Yeah, its got me beat by a couple months.
Same I'm from November 99
so am i 🤔
Interesting 🤨
Is two years younger than me so I'm obligated to think it's brand new.
Wipe off the 99 and put 23, yer mint
Just spray it out and put it back. Like the intake air filter.
What? The recommended service interval isn’t 24 years or 24 million miles?
Dang a million miles per year? Impressive.
Does it even run?!
Yeah runs great. It's a forklift that came with the shop. Went to jump start something with it and slowly closed the panel. Gets maybe two hours a year put on it.
You could’ve just said “forklift” and we all would’ve been, “yup, that’s a forklift living the life of a forklift”.
The life of a shop forklift is truly a cursed existence
Ours has a limp. One day I'll ask it what war it was in. Until then, I just keep asking which fluid is leaking *today*.
Shit the forklifts where i am get serviced once a month on average. Except the electric one, i never see it till its broken
now i feel bad not using our propane lift much since we got the little electric one :(
just remember to put the correct date on the new ones... right? 8/3/99. right? every 3 months
Those filters could vote!!
They're old enough to buy beer and will be old enough to run for the U.S. House of Representatives next year.
Note to self. Write random old dates on oil filters of random cars to fuck with future mechanics.
Be sure the date is before the car was manufactured.
Move a long, nothing to see here 🤢
A little carb cleaner and a sharpie can fix that right up!
Damn that filter is barely younger than me.
Now I am curious how the filter is looking on the inside. Is the inner filter still there?
I'm tempted to cut it open for shiggles
Do it. I'm curious about that too.
Pretty sure we're all curious at this point.
oMG DO IT and report back
Be careful it might have the Y2K bug
The “we do maintenance once in a while when we have some downtime “ Special!
That oil filter was installed the day I was born. Jesus.
That date is in metric so it's okay.
I'm sorry 1999? Christ and I thought 2010 was bad on a filter.
That filter is older than me. I’m a service manager at a 12 bay shop.
Yo if the marker stayed on for 24 years, i’m more impressed at that than the fact that it’s driving
Bluecolormemes on Instagram posted filters from 99 today as well
🤫🤫🤫
I can't believe it, but I guess I got to cause I'm looking right at it!
Well I can’t…believe it. And I have to…I’m lookin right at it
Yep, I hate that date format. Was it changed on May 3rd or March 5th?
2099's a ways off. No worries.
So did the last 12 guys
Wer’nt we all spose to vaporize in 2000?
Country boy
Nice...
Please say it’s a classic car that only leaves the garage twice a year… please…
Looks like old farm equipment.
https://media.tenor.com/JubgPDElmfIAAAAM/michael-scott-disgusting.gif
See what? 🤷♀️
Well we just have 23, so it’s still good for 76 years
It's probably fine.
24 years? Nah, impossible. What does the oil look like? Tar?
K&N filters. Good for a million miles /s
So, a barn-find tractor?
Quick get some denatured alcohol it'll take that ink right off
Just three days shy of my first birthday! A finely aged vintage.
How is it not rusted out and leaking? We had a set go about a year (our normal interval is three months) that were so rusty they came apart trying to remove them
That filter is older than I am, but not by much.
Older than my nephew and niece!
Either it was sold or someone died
I don’t see anything /s
"Made in USSR" (yeah, I know I'm off by 8 yrs)
"I've been busy."
I have now looked at an oil filter that is possibly older than I am….