wrap a plastic bag around your oil filter when you change filters. Oil wil drip in plastic bag and not on your lawn.
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wrap a plastic bag around your oil filter when you change filters. Oil wil drip in plastic bag and not on your lawn.
See uses for kitty litter
http://www.wisebread.com/really-grea...r-kitty-litter
http://artsycatsy.blogspot.com/2008/...ty-litter.html
Cheers wheels next time ay
I have done this countless times over the years..... LOL.
P.S get some of those $60-$70 wheel jacks that will lift your rig 2 feet and drop the oil then.... much bettererer
Oh man you are gonna regret that. I am sure it is not logged into the female memory hard drive that never breaks down and is instantly retrievable during any argument regardless if it is relevant or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by growlers71gq
... :1092: :blowup:
Wait until dark, swap it fer a plug of lawn from next door, lol
Cheers, the ferret.
Well I was saying to Patch over in GB that my epic oil change FAIL wasn't too bad now.....wellllll I just mowed the lawn and you can see through the cover that it's not that good after all! I think I will be taking a plug from somewhere and replacing oooopppppsss
I would have parked HER car over that spot, brushed some oil around the sump and said "look what your car done " then say to her " Its ok hun you run down the pub grab me some beers and ill put a new gasket on it for ya" then wipe oil off with a rag.... win win:smile:
Try some touch up paint from Bunnings.... May I suggest Heritage Green.... The grass won't know the diff after all it's dead anyway.............lol
Mate, ...just go down to your paintshop and get the grass colour-matched...quick spray over....
Hi Guys, I drop mine in my garage with no probs at all. just gotta do it in style. no rush! no problem! and i have a funnel wif a tube on to hang up to drain the filter run off and leave it there for a while while I drink a beer or two!
love all the dodgy ways to conceal the error, specially the one about blaming it on the wife and painting the grass lol
I've f@rkd the lawn again
Aaaand yup burnt my hand with hot oil AGAIN
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Some People just never learn LMAOQuote:
Originally Posted by growler2058
I tried really hard this time BoB, honest. But for the life of me I couldn't work out how to drain the filter oil??Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob
You knob Growler!
I feel for ya Growler.
This would be more or less the same result with me... The GU filter especially is in a karnt of a position always makes a mess.
Cheers mate, someone understands me hahahahahahaha Id be worried if I were you Hodgey
Hmmm, maybe get a plastic drop sheet or let a mechanic do the job properly EVERY 5000 Ks. LMAO. (Not laughing at you injury by the way).
I just put a rag on the diff and slide the oil pan under, and tip the oil out first,
Not a bad oil burn. The one at the beginning was a worse enviro hazardQuote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
Oil pan. Theres a problem solver ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by liftlid
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Originally Posted by growler2058
What are those? lol
Exaccery!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hodge
bwahahahahahahahahaha, now I've gotta go clean coffee off me keyboard ya wankerQuote:
Originally Posted by growler2058
Bingo that's what ido big arse drain pan wipe up with rag then degrease .. happy camper
So this is the reason all those ground water tests in Adel have come back bad ;-) my issue with the TB is I never have enough spare empty containers. I has a V8 that took 5lt perfect!
Just as well I'm down streem .ay I take my oil to the tip free collection and save a couple of containers for later
I did this when at a caravan park. I asked if they had an area where you could do minor car work, and no, they didn't. So I asked if I could do it on-site. They said as long as I didn't make a mess.Quote:
Originally Posted by growler2058
So first I drained the catch can into a chop packet. After dark, because the kids had to be showered etc. The oil missed the chop packet and went behind it, all over the grass.
Then through a comedy of errors the filter spilt a heap. Because I didn't have an oil pan, the funnel didn't work great on the sump drain. So 10pm I'm off to find a car wash to avoid spilt oil from under the car dripping in more spots. 11pm I'm back washing the grass with dishwashing detergent, water, and clean rags. I think it worked - at least they never realised in time to bill it back. Any dead grass would probably be due to a couple of naughty words uttered when I found the drips.
Don't worry...
When I first bought the patrol last year, completely forgot the capacity was larger than what I had been used to...5 litres for the EB XR8 vice 8.3 litres for the patrol...
Dumped the oil and filter the day I bought it and threw the six litre catch can under the car...loosened off the sump plug and let it drain. Wifey was in the office next to the driveway and went spastic and was yelling at me asking what was all the black sh$t running past her window...the three extra litres of waste oil had overflowed and merrily ran down the driveway. To add insult to injury, I only had 5 litres of replacement oil(remember creature of habit!!) AND...
The patrol was parked behind the second car! Had to get on the pushy, swearing and cursing, and ride to supercrap for another 5 litres of oil! Sorted the patrol out, got the hard scrubber and degreaser and proceeded to scrub 20 feet of driveway to remove the oil.
Lesson well learned!
Lol. I've scrubbed my driveway before... Pressure cleaner, chemicals, scrubbing brush... The works. Finally fixed the oil leak that was making the mess.
And found out the hard way that a 3l patrol drains a lot quicker than a 2.8 - the poor oil pan funnel couldn't keep up!
I changed the oil a few years ago in my garage, without spilling a drop... I forgot the drip pan and managed to run it over driving out of the garage, in the process I sprayed the car, the walls, the floor and ceiling in oil... Degreaser and Gernie eventually cleaned it all up, I remember it wasn't fun to clean up...