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OK, I did my first ever mutlifuel oil change yesterday, and learned a few lessons.
1. Around here Tractor Supply is the cheapest place to buy 5gal of Rotella.
2. TSC sells a really cool 12" metal funnel for catching the used oil.
3. An M35A2 with 11.00s on it is almost too short to put that same 12" funnel and a GI 5gal fuel can under the drain plug, almost.
4. The metal funnel comes with an accessory brass screen that may be deployed in the bottom to catch debris (RESIST THE URGE to deploy said screen)
5. When the oil comes out of a warm motor it comes out at a very high rate!
6. The oil dump is higher than the rate that little screen will flow (especially with the drain plug in the bottom, because it's against the laws of nature to NOT drop the plug into the oil catching device)
7. The best course of action when lying under a Deuce that is dumping hot oil into an overflowing funnel is to RETREAT and hope for the best!
8. A rolling creeper makes for a quick escape from the flaming oil attack.
Although I AM grateful that the screen kept the plug from going into the can of hot oil, and I am grateful that the screen caught the copper flakes that came out of my oil pan (bearing wear), the mess was not worth it! Next year I will have a shorter and wider 6+ gal oil catching device (with no screen) and I will have a wrench that is modified to catch the drain plug so it does not end up in the abyss.
And before I get the "worthless no photo" thing: I am not posting photographic evidence of my "learning", I plead the 5th from here on out!
Sam
1. Around here Tractor Supply is the cheapest place to buy 5gal of Rotella.
2. TSC sells a really cool 12" metal funnel for catching the used oil.
3. An M35A2 with 11.00s on it is almost too short to put that same 12" funnel and a GI 5gal fuel can under the drain plug, almost.
4. The metal funnel comes with an accessory brass screen that may be deployed in the bottom to catch debris (RESIST THE URGE to deploy said screen)
5. When the oil comes out of a warm motor it comes out at a very high rate!
6. The oil dump is higher than the rate that little screen will flow (especially with the drain plug in the bottom, because it's against the laws of nature to NOT drop the plug into the oil catching device)
7. The best course of action when lying under a Deuce that is dumping hot oil into an overflowing funnel is to RETREAT and hope for the best!
8. A rolling creeper makes for a quick escape from the flaming oil attack.
Although I AM grateful that the screen kept the plug from going into the can of hot oil, and I am grateful that the screen caught the copper flakes that came out of my oil pan (bearing wear), the mess was not worth it! Next year I will have a shorter and wider 6+ gal oil catching device (with no screen) and I will have a wrench that is modified to catch the drain plug so it does not end up in the abyss.
And before I get the "worthless no photo" thing: I am not posting photographic evidence of my "learning", I plead the 5th from here on out!
Sam