View Poll Results: When I change my oil filter.....
My engine and bildge look like an oil field
10
6.37%
I'm pretty careful but still drip more oil then I'd like
45
28.66%
I put rags around the engine to catch the spill
59
37.58%
I never spill a drop
54
34.39%
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For those that change your own oil
07-06-2004 | 11:47 AM
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Re: For those that change your own oil
Originally Posted by Lmarth
I've had great luck with something a frien picked up at the hospital. They're called Chucks and are for people who are incontinent. My oil filters are horizontal. I slid one of these Chucks under the filter all the way back to the base. These things are "absorpbent and leakproof". Work like a charm!--Lou
07-06-2004 | 12:07 PM
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Re: For those that change your own oil
I changed my oil Friday. I loaned my oil changer to a friend of my dads, and he returned it in a trash bag. I just assumed the trash bag was to keep his car clean. I opened the trash bag and the changer looked like I just pulled it out of a 55 gal drum of used diesel oil 
! If I could have got my hands on that guy... If I were going to borrow something from someone it will be returned cleaner than when I got it.
! If I could have got my hands on that guy... If I were going to borrow something from someone it will be returned cleaner than when I got it.
07-06-2004 | 12:16 PM
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Re: For those that change your own oil
Originally Posted by WARPARTY36
I changed my oil Friday. I loaned my oil changer to a friend of my dads, and he returned it in a trash bag. I just assumed the trash bag was to keep his car clean. I opened the trash bag and the changer looked like I just pulled it out of a 55 gal drum of used diesel oil ! If I could have got my hands on that guy... If I were going to borrow something from someone it will be returned cleaner than when I got it.
! If I could have got my hands on that guy... If I were going to borrow something from someone it will be returned cleaner than when I got it.
07-06-2004 | 02:28 PM
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Re: For those that change your own oil
I just learned how to do an oil change...
It's much easier is you have an oil sucker... for proper disposal and less of a mess.
Too keep it from going all over the place use a "diaper" not the baby kind.
Hmm, now that I think about it that might actually work too. Or you can use the pee pads.
It's much easier is you have an oil sucker... for proper disposal and less of a mess.
Too keep it from going all over the place use a "diaper" not the baby kind.
Hmm, now that I think about it that might actually work too. Or you can use the pee pads.
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07-06-2004 | 02:30 PM
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Re: For those that change your own oil
Originally Posted by joe900sc
Tonto is right...Poke the filter and hit the KE pre-lube switch...Done! 
07-06-2004 | 07:59 PM
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Re: For those that change your own oil
I did the rag thing for awhile, but even if you don't spill anything on the engine or bildge, your left with a bunch of oil soaked rags that make a mess.
07-06-2004 | 09:06 PM
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Re: For those that change your own oil
Not everyone has the luxury of being able to reach them, but I'm still "old school" and believe in pulling the drain plugs out of my pans so I can inspect them for shavings. So oil goes everywhere anyway. But just to minimize the mess around the filter, I do puncture the filter first. Then put a plastic bag over it and take it loose.
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07-06-2004 | 09:53 PM
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Re: For those that change your own oil
Originally Posted by WARPARTY36
I changed my oil Friday. I loaned my oil changer to a friend of my dads, and he returned it in a trash bag. I just assumed the trash bag was to keep his car clean. I opened the trash bag and the changer looked like I just pulled it out of a 55 gal drum of used diesel oil ! If I could have got my hands on that guy... If I were going to borrow something from someone it will be returned cleaner than when I got it.
! If I could have got my hands on that guy... If I were going to borrow something from someone it will be returned cleaner than when I got it.Thats why you don't lend tools to anyone.
07-07-2004 | 10:53 PM
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Re: For those that change your own oil
(If its on my trailer)I have had good luck with taking a long funnel like you use for a trans. cut it down so it fits under the pan but you still have a good angle, and let it stick out the drain hole in the back of the boat. Pull the plug and let it drain that way everything gets out of the pan and just wipe the rest up. But might not work on all boats.
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