This is no risk to insulting anyone's intelligence; when I've had my oil
changed at the Oil Changers (environmentally better than doing it in my own
driveway and they let me come down in the pit and point out the twenty-three
grease fittings), two times out of three they have not gotten the ring to
seat the first time.
That is, if they can get the ring out in the first place. (I carry a
dentist's pick and a mirror in my tool kit for just that purpose.
By far the best way to make sure it gets done right (at least on a Healey, is
to take the entire fitting off the side of the engine, then remove the cover
and replace the canister in a tray on your workbench. Then glue on a new
gasket on the engine block and put the whole fitting back on.
I suppose you could get a spin-on, but then I'm a concours nut and therefore
must be purer than Ceasar's wife on these kinds of things.
Gary Anderson
72 MGB Gt, 60 Healey 3000, 56 Healey 100M
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