In article <0oGdnX6GE4hdigzd4p2dnA@comcast.com>, JB <jb@nospammers.net>
wrote:

> Dear John,
>
> FYI, I am a good husband and I certainly don't need that type of advice
> from the likes of you.
>
> John Horner wrote:
>
> > "JB" <jb@nospammers.net> wrote in message
> > news:zPidnarL7PJmkwzdRVn-jw@comcast.com...
> >
> >>I do my own oil changes, but my wife takes her Accord to quick lube
> >>places.
> >
> >
> > Be a good husband and do them for her. Then you will be able to figure out
> > what is going on.
> >
> > John
> >
> >

I'm afraid your original question could have had a number of answers,
not just the one good and true from the one expert who knows all.

If you've ever watched the workers in a specialized shop, one that does
just mufflers or just tires or just oil, you know that they try to work
fast. One is a valuable imployee if one can punch lots of cards. So it's
usually not in the worker's interest to be real careful about where the
oil goes. It's like everything else these days: high efficiency means
the worker is probably doing the work of two guys.

Could be your wife's car was over filled, but I don't know where the
breather fumes go these days. They used to go into the intake manifold
and perhaps they still do except that intake manifolds aren't what they
used to be. Could be they filter it and vent it or condense it and
return it to the crankcase.

And it's very possible that oil is getting on parts of the exhaust
system but that wouldn't hurt anything except the air. Could be that the
oil filter is so close to some exhaust component that it takes special
care to avoid drips, and because of the nature of the job even workers
in different shops make the same small mistake.

So maybe God doesn't subscribe to this group and post definitive
answers, but that's no reason to abandon it. We are but rational.

JS

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