2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Call HAZMAT!!

[DarrellB]

You guys need help

I've never spilled a drop of oil while changing it in my truck. (well maybe a few drops) I've got one of those big plastic pans from Wally World. I just take the fill cap off the valve cover then loosen the STOCK drain plug a few turns till the oil starts running out pretty good. I wait a while, drink a few beers then come back and completely remove the STOCK plug and let the rest of the oil run out while I remove the filter. I take the filter loose and rap a plastic Wally World bag around it and sit it in the drain pan. Put the new filter on with oil in it and go back under the truck and put the plug in. Add the rest of the oil and your done. No mess, no fancy drain plugs and most of all no oil baths.



If you guys would like sometime I'll give you a lesson. :-laf :-laf :-laf



Now getting the oil in the 5 gallon jugs I store it in is a different question. :{



Darrell

 

[merryman]

re-install plug while draining??

I got married about a year before the end of my Navy hitch; money was really tight so that an oil change was a major outlay.

Before a trip home for Christmas, we got the money ahead to buy oil and a filter. When we got back to the apt, I thought I would drain the oil while it was hot. Slid under the 1952 Pontiac and unscrewed the plug------couldn't believe my eyes---that oil was red!!



Holly cow, I had pulled the transmission plug and there was no way we had the cash to go buy transmission fluid too, so nothing to do but put that plug back in; I got burned but good, but I got it back in with the loss of only a little more than a quart. The oil change had to wait a few days till the right hand recovered a little.

Not a fun "oil change".

Vaughn