Exxon Valdez, or Has This Ever Happened To You?

[Jim Jarrett <jarrett@rpa.net>]

Ok, so I thought I'd just do a simple oil change on my '84 Wolfsburg today.

Ha.

I *thought* the oil filter hit snug a little soon, and was right. 
Turned the key over and oil came gushing out all over.  I beat myself 
up pretty bad as I went to get kitty litter to contain this small 
toxic waste spill.

When I rolled the car to a less oily part of the driveway to see wtf, 
I discovered that in loosening up the old oil filter, I had also 
loosened up the pipe running thru the oil cooler. Oil was spewing out 
from there, not from a loose oil filter.


So:  Has anyone else ever done this?  If so, what tricks might you 
have for getting that pipe locked back into place in the filter 
flange?
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