No Mess Oil Change

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Joeychgo

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On the road with Scotty Love it Joey, my Ramchargers are a pain and this would make the job cleaner and easier to change there oil.
First time I ever seen this.
 
memike said:
On the road with Scotty Love it Joey, my Ramchargers are a pain and this would make the job cleaner and easier to change there oil.
First time I ever seen this.
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I get a kick out of his facial expressions !
 
Still room for improvement. At least 1 triangle/dustpan/shoehorn shaped piece to slip in closer under oil filters too. Make that piece adjustable in width, length, and angle. With a pocket to capture and drain the filter of course.
Hang various attachments all around the basin like a vacuum cleaner has? I can just imagine a couple of designing women going to Shark Tank with their creation.
 
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I change my oil in the neighbor's driveway... :mad:

That way I don't have to worry about any mess.... :D
 
krazykuda said:
I change my oil in the neighbor's driveway... :mad:

That way I don't have to worry about any mess.... :D
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I just do it on a dirt driveway
No need to capture the old oil iether, just let it seep back into the earth so the Arabs can pump it back out
Kinda like recycling without the hassle

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Many access roads in the oil patches are covered with a simple combination of crude oil and aggregate. Blade operator windrows the aggregate, spreader truck adds the crude, blade mixes it up and spreads it out. Keeps the dust down to some extent, repels water during the rainy season, lasts reasonably well. One of the local areas has a native american name, I forget the word, but it basicly means "black nasty sticky stuff bubbling up out of the ground". The "oil sand" procedure is on the politically incorrect list now so they use another substance to do the same thing and it is probably an oil derivative. Go figger.
 
That never would have worked on my old '77 Ford F250.
Because of the designers wet-dream of a design, the oil drain plug was located right in the center of the crossmember that covered the twin I-beam front axles. Whenever you removed the drain plug to drain the oil, the oil would run in four directions all over the top of the crossmember.
It was always a mess!
 
SuperStock said:
I have to disagree. Ford is one of the best, at least in the pre 1970's. That what I see in their engineering.
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46+ years in the business. When the manufacturers built simple cars, no problems with any of them. My first stupid oil filter was on a 82 GM X body with a 2.5 R engine. Unscrew the filter and it drains right into the engine cradle. Dumb! In the last 28 years, I have been a MAC Tool dealer and get into a hundred automotive shops. Later model Fords are the worst. The Ford dealer techs complain the loudest! It wasn't too long ago the pick ups had 2 drain plugs. Duh! And all the shields and diapers Ford uses nowdays. The only thing that's worse is GM's upside down Ecotech filter a half inch from the exhaust manifold!
 
Ford must have listened to the complaints. On the 2.7L V6 in my '17 Fusion they went to a cartridge filter. It is in top of the engine, and not one drop of oil leaks anywhere if you are careful. You can use any kind of big adjustable wrench on the housing too. Very nice design.
 
toolmanmike said:
46+ years in the business. When the manufacturers built simple cars, no problems with any of them. My first stupid oil filter was on a 82 GM X body with a 2.5 R engine. Unscrew the filter and it drains right into the engine cradle. Dumb! In the last 28 years, I have been a MAC Tool dealer and get into a hundred automotive shops. Later model Fords are the worst. The Ford dealer techs complain the loudest! It wasn't too long ago the pick ups had 2 drain plugs. Duh! And all the shields and diapers Ford uses nowdays. The only thing that's worse is GM's upside down Ecotech filter a half inch from the exhaust manifold!
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Oh I talk about engineer in general, and that is pre 1970's. For all big 3 vehicle post 1970's, that I touch, all junk in my opinion. The technology isn't much different from before, plus cheap parts and poor design. I feel gen X engineers are book's engineers not a hand-on engineers, they will never have ability of baby boomers. Don't like.
 
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Forget to empty that pan. Yup. Been there. Or the oil filter is hot, and full of mexican jumping beans. Good luck. I have a hoist and a proper oil drain. Still easy to make a mess. At least im not the guy that took all the pan bolts out of a ford transmission and immediately turned my back on it. Painted him from shirt collar to his heels. Funniest spill ever. So "spillypants" decided to not clean up until end of the day. Tracked it through the whole shop. Except my bay. I had the water hose. And warned him. The name stuck.
 
That Scotty guy has hundreds of quirky videos out there. I got pissed during my first slant oil change so I bought one of SlantsixDans old *** cartridge filter housings.
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Now the top unscrews and you just fish out the oily cartridge. Drop in a new one and screw the pickle jar top back on. No mess.
 
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