1st oil change and Michael Moore

[danbike]

:banana: How's this for a subject to get everyone's attention.:banana:

Michael Moore did a TV series a number of years ago where he asked the CEO's of a number of firms to do some mundane task. All said NO except for FORD. Their big cheese did change oil on an Explorer on TV. Just wonder how many engineers prepped him. IBM, GE, and many other firms wouldn't even return his calls. I especiallly liked it when IBM refused to format a floppy disk for his camera. Guess many don't know what kind of a task that is.

I just did the first oil change on our new Marauder. After working on a '98 Crown Vic for 6 years, this engine layout is even easier to work on. The filter is much easier to get out of the engine area.

Just one question. The original oil that was in the motor obviously had a dye in it. I wonder if FORD is checking all motors will a dye incase they have a leak? That is the type of tactic I would expect from GM.:D

Seriously, the access for this motor is not bad at all.

[rayjay]

You're lucky, the filter on mine was put on by a 500# Gorilla with a torque wrench. I gave up and had the dealer do it.

[Amsoil_Dealer]

I was wondering what Michael Moore had to do with this.

Don

[rumble]

Michael Moore? If he had his way we'd all be walking.

[Fourth Horseman]

Michael Moore? If he had his way we'd all be walking.

Well, then I'm not voting for Moore in November! :lol:

[RoyLPita]

I remember surfing the tube and watching the part where the head (at the time) of Ford getting down and changing the oil. I thought that was cool.

[chrish]

:banana: How's this for a subject to get everyone's attention.:banana:

Michael Moore did a TV series a number of years ago where he asked the CEO's of a number of firms to do some mundane task. All said NO except for FORD. Their big cheese did change oil on an Explorer on TV. Just wonder how many engineers prepped him. IBM, GE, and many other firms wouldn't even return his calls. I especiallly liked it when IBM refused to format a floppy disk for his camera. Guess many don't know what kind of a task that is.

I just did the first oil change on our new Marauder. After working on a '98 Crown Vic for 6 years, this engine layout is even easier to work on. The filter is much easier to get out of the engine area.

Just one question. The original oil that was in the motor obviously had a dye in it. I wonder if FORD is checking all motors will a dye incase they have a leak? That is the type of tactic I would expect from GM.:D

Seriously, the access for this motor is not bad at all.

don't know much about the show but it sounds like typical degrade & humiliate until something happens..............

lets ask the ceo of koehler to clean a toilet..........better yet let's see a toilet cleaner do the job of a CEO............Dumb & degrading to ALL involved............. :bs:

[David Morton]

I wondered about that dye, too. I dropped my oil only at 2500 miles and remember saying, it's either recycled oil or it has that stupid black light glowing dye stuff. :confused:

Here's the rub on that dye stuff. If you want to find a leak, pull the car onto a rack, add the dye, crank it up and run it up the lift. Then you will be able to see the stuff as it leaks out, revealing the source of the leak. All of this is a time saver (if it's a "fast" leak)because you haven't had to do any cleanup work first. Before, I used to wash the engine compartment down really good, run the car up and make sure everything was good and dry before I would spray the suspected leak area with Dr. Scholls Foot Powder (about 1/3 the price of "tracing powder", same stuff but smells better), then crank it up and watch the leaking area get dark. It even works on slow leaks because wet stuff is wet stuff but the dye could take a long time to work its way through a gasket.

And here's the lunacy of management. They think they're mechanics, but smarter, so they told the service writers to put the dye in and tell the customer with the oil leak to "drive the car for a while and this high tech dye will tell us where it leaks so we can fix it right the first time." Sounds good to the customer, so he does and we, the real mechanics, get to open up the hood and see everything glow! Cool!

And what do we know now? Same thing as before, it has oil all over and it glows all over. :mad:

I went back to using foot powder. :D