On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:48:16 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-02-01 2:05 PM, Janet B wrote:
>>
>> Today is my birthday.
>>
>> My husband took the truck into the Ford dealer first thing. We'd had
>> the truck in for a repair 10 days ago and the truck was leaking some
>> oil. They'd had to put a oil filter relocation kit in and had
>> simply neglected to put a clamp around the hose. As they lifted it up
>> on the hoist, they punched through the forward gas tank with the lift!
>> So what would have been a few minutes to fix is now looking to be
>> anywhere from a couple days to a week or more.
>>
>> They sent my husband home in a rental car.
>> There is no charge for the car, a new gas tank, and a clamp for the
>> oil hose. No charge for anything and a good thing too.
>>
>> I wish I had been there, I'm just bubbling with stuff to say.
>>
>> So, we are still going out to eat tonight.
>
>
>Happy Birthday. Your truck experience is not quite as bad as that of a
>friend of mine from the dog park. He needed an oil change. His son
>offered to do it, figuring he could save him a few dollars. Given the
>price of oil and filters these days and the dealing with the messy work
>and the oil to dispose of, and the number of quick oil change places
>around, it is pretty cheap to get it done.
>
>It seems his son did something wrong and it didn't take very long for
>the oil to run out and destroy the engine. The took it to a local
>garage where there was a truck the same make, model and year and the
>same engine, but the body was kaput, so they are going to swap out the
>engines. For some reason it it going to take a long time. It seems that
>you have to take your time and to things right.

It could only be either the oil filter or drain plug left loose to
cause that. It's a wonder the engine or oil light didn't come on well
before any serious damage occurred?

>That leaves me wondering
>about the competence of the job. I worked in our equipment section for
>10 years. Changing an engine is less involved job that many others that
>he had to deal with. Disconnect it, unbolt it, take it out... revers
>the above. It may be a few hours work, not days or weeks.

That would depend on the vehicle in question, some engine swaps are
quick and easy... others I wouldn't like to have to do at all (I'm
thinking late model vehicles here). But you mention a donor vehicle
with kaput body, so it does sound like an older model vehicle. Should
be a one day job, even without proper equipment like engine hoists,
etc. It only took three of us about six hours to swap over my Hilux
diesel engine, including beer breaks.