re: When teaching your kids moments go wrong

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Turns out I forgot to make sure/inspect that the OLD O-Ring off the old oil filter came off

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The old double gasket! Learned about that working at a tire shop when I watched the other young guy make that mistake on a brand new 2005 Mustang GT. He cranked it up and oil just blew out everywhere. Luckily it didn’t get down the street.

Not necessarily a teaching moment but still some teenage dumbassery, in my parents’ neighborhood you could get air from one of the cross streets if you were doing about 75+. So we’d haul arse down the main drag in a subdivision to get air and we’d even sometimes do it in the rain. I still shake my head thinking about how dumb that was and how much could have gone wrong.