My mom drove her 1986 olds cutlass home from the Sears auto center with her oil drain plug still on the workbench.
She drove four miles home. Oil light on, we called Sears. They came out with the oil plug and filled the crank case.
That was at 60,000 miles. We traded it in at 140,000 miles running just fine.
Filling the filter came from the idea that a freshly drained oil load and a refill with an empty oil filter meant that the next start up the engine was oil starved while the filter filled up.
Matters little with modern oils. Synthetics leave an ample coating on all engine parts.
Filter fills in just a second or two.
A little oil wiped on the filters rubber seal before hand tightening it down makes removal easier.
Lady up the street, Tampa Florida drove away from her friends home in Miami Florida with the friend frantically waving at her to stop, she didn’t see her. Turns out her Oldsmobile delta 98 lost the oil sensing unit and her entire oil load dumped in that Miami driveway.
She made it home to Tampa, 270 miles with no oil at all.
When she shut it down in her driveway she smelled something odd.
Her husband came home from work and found a seized engine, most of the wiring, plug wires and such had melted.
It was a dead dog but it made it 270 miles.
They ran roach oil.
Yep she was a blond. We didn’t tease her.
