<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr">Great idea for changing oil and filter....</div><br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439991937981_5814"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439991937981_5813"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439991937981_5815"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439991937981_5816"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Asa Jay Laughton via TPR <tpr@teampanteraracing.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> tpr@teampanteraracing.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 19, 2015 6:34 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TPR] New Stuff (Asa's update for 2015 08 18<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439991937981_5812"><br>Nice! I'd have never thought of it. But I need to change oil anyway <br>and waiting another day or two won't put me behind. I'll try to <br>remember that trick if I ever need it though.<br><br>Thanks Kirby,<br>Asa Jay<br><br>Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired<br>& Shelley Marie<br>Spokane, WA<br>******************************<br><a href="http://www.racingagainstautism.com/" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439991937981_5821">http://www.racingagainstautism.com</a><br><a href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com/" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439991937981_5822">http://www.teampanteraracing.com</a><br><a href="http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439991937981_5823">http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism</a><br><br><br>On 8/19/2015 2:23 AM, Kirby Schrader via TPR wrote:<br>>> On Aug 18, 2015, at 23:37, Asa Jay Laughton via TPR<<a ymailto="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com">tpr@teampanteraracing.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Tonight was a fairly easy night. The new engine oil and filter arrived for the Pantera, but the new oil temp gauge doesn't get here until tomorrow night. I don't want to pull the plugs on the oil pan until the gauge is here.<br>> A trivial solution to changing oil pan plug gaskets or adding oil temperature sensors when you have oil in the pan is to put a shop vacuum on the valve cover breather and turn it on.<br>><br>> You can take the drain plug out and do whatever you want. The vacuum pulls air in through the hole you just made.<br>> You won’t spill a drop of oil.<br>><br>> An old trick I have used several time and it works just peachy.<br>><br>> FWIW<br>> Kirby<br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> TPR mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a><br>> <a href="http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com" target="_blank">http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com</a><br>><br>><br>> -----<br>> No virus found in this message.<br>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<br>> Version: 2015.0.6125 / Virus Database: 4392/10465 - Release Date: 08/19/15<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TPR mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a><br><a href="http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com" target="_blank">http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>