Got under the car to make the skid plate only to find a ton of oil all over everything...Now recently my oil return line blew off and caused a mess. I spent a whole day and 6 cans of cleaner cleaning it to new so this was shocking.
I knew the car left a spot of oil here and there but this was really bad. I cleaned everything off using brake cleaner and some rags (don't use Oreilly's brand if you like your paint!! I have never had issues with any other brands but this one ate all my paint off of everything like air craft stripper would
). Once everything was clean, I ran the car to see where the leaks were. Bingo. I found it. I have never had any luck using these dumb ass AN fittings. The fittings going from the block off the Volvo sandwich plate were leaking. The fittings coming off the aftermarket remote filter were leaking as well. They were leaking about 4 drops every 20 seconds or so... Not good.
When I first put the fittings on, I overtightened them and they leaked and were ruined. I went out and bought all new fittings (male and female side Russell fittings), and this time I "snugged them" like they suggest.
Now here we are. Apparently these type of fittings do not like me because it leaked really bad. So, I re-snugged them today a little tighter thinking maybe my fear of over-tightening them caused me to not tighten them enough...Nope, still leaks. Im fed up with these fittings. I am going to go back old school Mercedes style hose clamps. This is some bull ****.
So after all that, I still didn't get around to making my stop sign plate, but I have this friend who is going to get me some road signs he saw around the corner from my place
Then its onto some ghettofab work.
