>change oil >chuck the drain plug in the oil pan

>knowing where it is.

>>17045183
catch pan, retard

nice thread

>begin pouring oil into engine
>spills all over
>cry

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>>17045183
>Oil leaking all around oil pan gasket

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>>17045202
>autism

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>>17045183
>plug

>>17045219
>what is a funnel

>being a poorfag
>not taking it to a shop and supervising closely

>>17046382
>car cuck
so, you like to watch?

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>>17045183
>oil filter slips out of your hand and falls into the pan splashing oil all over you

>changing oil with gloves on
>not fapping with your lubed up hands

>>17045183

>third degree burns from steaming synthetic oil that melts your neoprene gloves to your fingers

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>start pouring oil
>forgot to put filter in

>>17045183
>using an oil pan
>not using a cat litter bucket

>not having the oil as hot as possible to maximize changeover
>not dropping plug into pan as a matter of course, because you don't want skin or gloves exposed to nasty synthetic scrubbing chemicals in the oil and its just the best way

>>17046538
This Nigga knows whats up

Although its totally possible to keep the plug between your thumb and index fingers without making contact with the oil. I might add that using a lift helps a lot

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>>17046515
>not putting some oil on the gasket of the filter (if its like pic related)
>not using a new copper gasket ring for the plug
>Not pulling the plug just before lunch break so the oil has at least 30 minutes to drain

>>17046538
Does everyone here have miniature drain plugs or something? None of the collectors I've seen have holes big enough for the plug... or at the very least they have this small cage that catches it that pulls out

>>17047060
I can't put oil on the gasket. My car oil filter goes into the engine block.

I let it drain over night. At last 8 hours.

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>>17047060
>>17047138
See

>>17045183
>removing oil filter
>slips out of my hands and splashes into the drain pan full of dirty oil
EVERY FUCKING TIME

>>17047138
Even with internal filters, you should still apply oil to the mating surface.

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>try to take off oil drain plug and curse whoever overtightened it before you
>accidentally crank it down way too hard when you're putting it back on

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>Putting old oil into the empty jug
>Funnel shifts
>spill oil on the ground

Does anyone use an oil analysis service?

>>17045183
>>change oil
>>chuck the drain plug in the oil pan

but that's what i do every time because my car needs a new drain plug and copper crush washer every time I change the oil. actually needs two because front and rear sump.

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>change oil
>get oil on you

>>17045183
>change oil
>forget pan
>cbf oil all over the lawn and the tyres
lel

>>17047329
That sounds retarded. Documentation, please.

>>17047299
Only people who online date do that shit.

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>>17045183

>changing oil in driveway
>open drain plug
>slight breeze
>oil sprays everwhere
such is life as an autist

>>17047525
Are you running -50 weight?

>>17047558
you never dumped oil and had wind blow it everywhere? do you live in a vacuum, bubble boy?

>>17047563
No, I drive a miata that requires the front to be lifted to fit my fatfuckmcbabbyhuge drain pan.

I also don't change my oil in the middle of a cyclone.

who /cutfivegallonbucketoilpan/ here?

>>17046326
Don't these tend to fail?

>>17046506
I have a magnetic socket just for oil changes

>>17046326
>Trusting your engine with some shitty valve

>>17047563
I've always used garages, why would you do it out in the elements unless you're poor as fuck

>>17047567
I cut a square out of the side of an old 5 liter oil jug and use that as an oil pan.

>not sucking it out with your mouth
>not smearing oil all over your naked body and fap to smell of your burnt clutch

>>17047585
Why would you do it in garages unless you were poor as fuck? Rich people change their oil in mansions on carpeted floors underneath chandeliers.

>>17047582
This, what's wrong with a fuckin bolt?

Why would I risk the well-being of my engine for the want of a bolt?

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>buy used car just before winter
>think I've found all the rust spots and pay a fair price
>don't know when oil was last changed so get 'er up on ramps and get to it
>discover oil pan is rusting and starting to ooze oil
>all 20 plus oil pan bolts now resemble rusty blobs
>wipe pan with acetone, JB weld the danger zone and pray

It held for a year and then I paid someone to put on a new pan. I hate the rust belt.

>>17047153
>>17047138
Thats why I wrote
>(if its like pic related)

You guys obviously have filter elements which really dont need any oil. I was talking about filter cartridges

Also
>not tightening the filter cartridge with a piece of sand paper because both the filter and your hands will be too slippery to hand-tighten it properly

I want to take a moment to address the ever so polarizing issue of replacing the crush washer. Do you do it?

In the five years that I have been wrenching on my motorcycles and cars, I have never once replaced the crush washer. I've done countless oil changes and never had a single problem.

>>17046443
Don't do that with synthetic!

>oil plug is a shit hex screw design and not a bolt
>it's fucked
>too lazy to like rent a welder and fix it
>end up using an oil pump
>it surprisingly works very well, even though it takes a good 20 minutes of pumping to get the oil out
>much less of a mess afterwards


it's alright, though I can't shake the suspicion I'm leaving a lot of dirty oil behind. I mean the volume of oil coming out is very close to the volume that was poured in the first place, and I add a bit of oil near the end of the pumping to kinda help.

Where to dispose of used oil ?

>Empty oil into large flat pan
>miss judge the amount of oil, there's less than 1/8th of an inch between edge oft he pan and surface of the oil
>have the brilliant idea to empty can into bottles for disposal.
>lift pan
>bends
>charcoal black oil onto new concrete floor
>second time it happens

Dad is right to beat me up

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>>17045183
>changing the oil
>engine snake slips out and bites me before slithering away
>have to go to Autozone and tell them I need a new one...again

>>17047861
But they come for free with oil filters

>>17048364
Try the community recycling centre

>his oil drain plug is on the side of the pan and not the bottom

>>17046304
the oil pan is the oil sump on your car, a drain or catch pan is used to drain fluids

you'd sound like a retard if you referred to it as an "oil pan" around anyone serious about cars

>>17048364
what the fuck is wrong with you?

was it really easier to type that in and solve the captcha and sit there hitting refresh than it was to punch "where to dispose of used oil" into your search engine of choice?

>>17048383
>letting your oil get charcoal black

your dad is right to beat you up

>>17048384
>washing car
>spider comes out and runs away
Already lost 6 this way and I dont know where to get them from so I cant replace them

>>17048364
I leave it in front of autzone and leave

>>17048452
That's all auto zone is good for, really.

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>>17045183

Am I really the only one in this thread that uses an oil drain pan with a *screen* to catch the bolt??

>it's not rocket science, bitches

>>17048452
you're an asshole, at least have the decency to go in and hand it to them

at this point I just walk in, go to the back, and dump it out myself bc the employees all recognize me and I don't mind taking 30 seconds of my life so as not to inconvenience someone for an already free and convenient service

t. cuck

>>17047576

>Don't these tend to fail?

They now sell these with a retaining clip to prevent the valve from opening on it's own.

>>17047567
I can get them free from a local restaurant, so I have one cut and the rest I fill and give to a neighbor for their waste oil furnace

I have yet to find a well engineered drainpan that will hold at least 16 quarts and won't develop pinholes from being dragged on the concrete or leak from the drain cap. My Powerstroke takes 14 quarts + 1 quart archoil for a drain and fill.

>>17048431
At least you didn't lose the exhaust eagle, those are basically unique to every car.

>>17045183
>not forcing your gf's face in the oil pan while you savagely rail her asshole from behind
OP confirmed prude

>not just pumping 90% of the oil out through the drain plug

>not inviting your friends over to hang out and bullshit while you do this

>not checking the underbody for fluid leaks

>not riding around in your friends car while the oil gets pumped out

>>17048384
Kek

More like this pls

>>17048562
What do you mean by pumping it out?

>>17047060

>copper gasket ring

lol you mean crush washer?

>tfw never changed one ever

>>17048431
Most OEMs sell car spiders as a package with another part and won't sell you them separately. If you don't mind Chinese made car spiders you can get them on ebay.

>>17048427
This guy is cool.

>>17046382
If you can't afford to go somewhere where you don't have to supervise the guy you're not actually wealthy enough to call people poorfags, poorfag.

>>17048661
How often do you change your car spiders? 30k miles?

>>1704632
>the fumoto valve master race

Feels pretty good. Don't have to change the gasket anymore which is my favorite part.

>>17048700
They say 25 but I change then when I see they're starting to wear. They typically last for around 40.

>>17046443
>continuously handle carcinogenic auto fluids with no protection

>get cancer

Wooooow

Seriously though gloves are worth it , 5 $ a box for decent onces, don't have black shit under your nails , and protect your skin.

>>17048717
>getting cancer from your hands
What meme is this

>>17046382
>not taking it to a shop and supervising closely

Quicky lube shops won't touch my car (Porsche 928). Evidently, they fucked up a Porsche once and the boss won't let them touch any more.

When they were still doing them, I asked for a lube level check. Guy spends ages under car and finally comes out "I can't find your transmission." I asked him if he checked the diff lube level. "Yeah, that's OK." Well then, we're good to go. It's a transaxle. "Duh, what?"

And then there's the H.S. dropout looking for where to put the new oil. "It's a German car. 'Oil' in German is 'Oel'. See the cap now?"

NeverAgain.jpg

>changing oil
>it's green like gatorade
what did my car mean by this?

>drop drain plug in the old oil bucket
>fish it out with a magnet on a stick
>living life ez mode

>>17048733
>not knowing your hands have pores, are porous and will absorb minute amounts of everything you handle.

This is why, for example, if you put some liquid lsd on your hands you'll trip even if you didn't ingest it orally

>t. Biology class

>>17048768
>minute amounts
LITERALLY nothing. No cancer for me lmao

>>17046506
>neoprene gloves
nitrile gloves around oil and gas

>>17046515
As long as the drain plug is in, you can pour oil in regardless of the filter being on or not.

t. walmart tech. We do oil changes in pairs, upper and lower, and we pour the oil in as soon as the drain plug is in just about every car. Never makes a mess since the oil won't go through the filter without oil pressure.

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>Just finished tightening the crankshaft pulley to 118Nm on the 4A-FE, without any SST

>That little fucker sitting right next to my feet, laughing at me

>>17047525
Better everywhere than on you. That's what happened last time I tried to change my own oil.
This time, I'm putting up boards to block the wind from going under the car.
Can't wait for a flat calm day, those don't exist here.

>>17048700
>How often do you change your car spiders?

> Changing spiders yourself
Just leave the car to sit for a month, and a new spider will appear and move in. It'll fight the old one for supremacy, and the best spider will win.

>>17048335
You also have the sludge or grit that settles at the bottom of the oil pan. It's why draining it from the bottom is better than using a pump at the top.

>>17048755
RIP headgasket

>>17048364
into the local creek

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>>17045475
>huge oil leak at oil pan gasket
>park car and decide to take a look at it on the weekend
>leak mysteriously vanishes
>been 3 weeks and it hasn't leaked a bit since
>terrified its going to start leaking again out of nowhere

>>17048714
>>17048700
>>17048661
>just bought new project car
>jack it up in garage and start wrenching
>find two-three huge fucking black widows and a egg sacs per corner in the arches
>too spooped to keep wrenching on it

>>17048480
Why don't you just not be a faggot and don't drop the sump plug?

>>17049851
All your oil leak out

>>17048638
Not him

But don't you just call them copper washers, because their washers made out of copper?

That's what it says on assortment boxes and invoices

> select street signs
> only has an American flag

>>17045183
>change oil
>chuck the drain plug in the oil pan
Is it possible to get rid of the drain plug and put in a valve? What are the problems of a valve other than trolling Alphonse crawls under your car to let the oil out?

>>17049851
I know this deeply

>>17048335

>Hex screw design and not a bolt

Wow. Did you mean Allen or Hex key?

>>17048431
Don't even get me started on air filter box mice...

>>17051450

Aint nothing compared to rear window wasps.

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>>17045475
>to pass safety local shop told me pan gasket needed changing
>they proceed to fuck it up 3 times
>4 time still leaks but i am through with their bullshit
>go under car for once to check
>it wasn't the oilpan gasket at all
>it was the crank seal

>not having a magnet to retrieve oil plug from oil pan

>>17047082
Most people don't have catch pans designed like that. I have one, but I use a big open mouth design 99% of the time, for the filter I tend to use a big pot and for coolant I tend to use baking pans.

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>>17048755
coolant is mixing with your oil, your headgasket is fucked and your engine too, potentially.

>>17045183
Just learning how to do basic maintenance for my shitbox. First time changing oil with a chiltons for reference. Redline 5w-30 and wix xp filter. Went better than expected. Now waiting for leaks to start everywhere from the detergents in the redline

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>>17047582
>Trusting your engine with some shitty valve

>>17048364
storm water, your neighbor's lawn, school swimming pool, local reservoir.

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>>17048364

>>17046506
>retarded enough to change your own fucking oil while the engine is hot

>>17047364
I used to do this when I still lived with my mom. I'd drain all the oil directly onto the ground, throw a cardboard box on top of it, and continue on my way.

>>17053241
>implying 4 strokes don't have valves

>>17053296
what

>>17047299
Yes, it's amazing
Only need to do it when you first get the car (used) and then maybe every 30k miles? depends on the kind of car

>>17047386
>2017
>Wasting time with old school dating
I'm surprised you're on the internet at all

>>17049851
At least 3 cars I've owned. My Cadillac was that way with oil, my Grand Am was that way with coolant, and one other car I had would leave puddles of either power steering or transmission fluid behind, but levels were always good.

>>17051484
>Thinking rear window wasps compare to dashboard ants

You might as well scrap the car

>>17053330
>>17049851

This is because the leak is somewhere that requires pressure/heat from when the car is running

>>17048364
filter it and put it back in car.

>change oil
>have to use a hammer to open drain plug of gearbox
>only breeze of the day blows all the oil over brake leaver
>open drain plug of engine
>shitty allan key bit keeps falling out into drain pan
>drain oil
>crush washer not on plug
>or on engine
>put hand is hot oil to find it
>try to get drain plug back in
>allan key bit falls 10x back into drain pan
>starts to rain when fill cap is still open

FUCK. THIS. SHIT.

>>17053330
>All GM products
Go figure.

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>>17045183
>Easy job, don't even need to lift the car
>Screw bolts on a pice of plastic on top of the engine
>Socket slips out of hand
>Lands on the undertray panel

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>Take extreme car this time
>put down cardboard over working area
>dont let the wind blow oil on the pavement
>dont drop the plug in to the oil
>dont move the pan before plugging it
>dont move the pan to fast and slop oil over the side
>dont drop the filter in the oil
>dont pass the filter over the driveway and drop oil all over the place
>get dont with out spilling any oil at all
>move the truck back and park it
>return to house and find a big oil spot anyways

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>>17053676
If it doesn't leak, it's out of fluid.

>>17053676
The last one was a Dodge Neon I think, but it might have been my Lumina, so yes, they were all GM products. I flock to that since parts are cheap and the shits are easy to work on.

>>17046337
>wanting your food to taste like oil

>not slightly loosening the drain plug so you can rotate it clockwise with your finger whilst pushing it in till you feel the threads resetting then pulling it off and unleashing the oil into your pan without dropping the drain plug

Shig its almost like its your first time changing it

>>17054343
Mine doesn't do that

>>17048404
Subarjew stealership charges me extra for crush washers

>>17054425
I just buy the crush washer from them and get Wix filters since they now make one with the correct oil bypass valve pressure. The OEMs are rebranded Frams so you know they're shit.

>>17048364
>Where to dispose of used oil ?
Many people dump the bottle into the closest storm sewer opening or down their house drain if the summer time. My neighborhood is lucky to have one of the large sewer lines that each house drain dumps into. Some of the other housing communities have small main sewer lines with turns and twists.

Those small lines are a problem with oil in the winter. Two cities north of me this past winter, various houses kept on dumping their oils down the household drain. The detergents and soaps mixed with the oil and formed a sludge coating the pipe. People who flushed "wet wipes" and other durable material had it coat the pipe making it narrower. Over time, some chemical reaction occurs and it becomes "hard" and basically has to be scraped off. Their sewer pipe got so narrow that the sewer backed up and flooded 3 houses! Inspection showed that people had been flushing their used oil down the drain, but they didn't know which houses. Certainly no one would admit guilt since they would have to pay for all the damaged houses, hotel time, damaged property, and cleanup the city had to do to repair the clogged sewer.

>>17045183
>buy a shitty catch pan
>doesn't drain fast enough
>oil starts overflowing

>>17048620
>What do you mean by pumping it out?
There are different ways of removing oil especially if a flush is being done under pressure. Thus, pumping occurs because gravity doesn't make for a good flush.

Besides flushes, some places attach a hose to the main opening, plug the dipstick hole, and use pressure to force the oil out faster instead of waiting for your oil to drip out from gravity. Time is money since they can service more customers that way.

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>need to tighten bolt
>out of quarters for gas stations tool dispenser

JUST

>>17054848
>gas stations tool dispenser

I fucking wish

>doing first oil change on bike 1 year after i bought it
>last owner did not know what a torque wrench is
>inner thread is fucked
what do br/o/s?

>>17054848
>gas stations tool dispenser
What

>>17053336
Lost my best radiator grasshoppers and now they aren't in season.

>>17045183
>go to change oil
>need to undo 7 (SEVEN FUCKING) bolts for the access panel

>>17054882
>access panel for oil
Tell me what car this is so I can never buy one

>>17054870
cork from a bottle of wine will do. just hammer it in

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>>17054804
Yeah, it's called a fatberg.

>berg

You get one guess to find out who's behind this.

>be me
>be 18yo me
>buy 97 SL1 for $800
>be me with car in Maine
>block cracks but is wetblock
>pisses coolant until heat makes the crack seal
>continueously apply more jb weld every month
>every month the crack grows bigger
>keeps going for another year
>junked it a ~400,000 miles

I loved that car. UOA showed that it kept going for nearly 100k with an impressively bad bearing.

>>17054882
I know dis feel

>have to remove 4 bolts and drop the skid plate to get access to the filter

>>17048801
>walmart
kys

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>>17047659
>not having an oil filter wrench

>>17053295
what a shitty thing to do

>>17054968
Why?

>>17054304
Not earning enough to be able to afford multiple FUNNELS
anon pls

>>17054895
>You get one guess to find out who's behind this.
It's the houses with babies that keep on flushing all their dirty stuff down the toilet. It plugs up sewage pumps on occasion.

I have a magnetic socket just for this. A buddy of mine gave it to me, it comes in pretty handy.

I wonder what happens if a mechanic strips the threads or crossthreads the drain pan. I heard some aluminium pans are pretty easy to rek this way. I mean, surely interns or trainees do this atleast once or so?

>>17046326
Any good brand recommendations? Mine is in a bitching place to reach, need to remove a fucking oil drain engine cover.

>>17054887
Tuscon, and Santa Fe. Veloster, and Genesis have less bolts, and the oil filter isnt covered.

But almost all new cars have covers, some use turn plugs to remove, some use 2 or 4 bolts, and some are fucking retarded and use 8

>>17054887
anything that goes offroad

>>17054870
rethread it a size up

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>>17055030
Okay, seems you need two guesses.

>BERG

>>17055032
You put a helicoil in there and it's as good as new

>>17055226
ah, didn't know that. Thanks anon

>>17048480
I don't get why everyone is so fucking gay that they have a massive issue with fishing it out of the pan. Fuck

>>17048740
Even though your Porsche is worth like $1?

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>>17048431
>>17048384
>changing cabin air filter
>blower mouse jumps out and runs off into the yard
Fuckdammit those things are hard to catch too.

>>17045183
>using a pan

Haha spot the commiefornia fag

>>17055508
Now this is how you bait

>>17054200
>russian plane
>dodge

Wew
E
W

>>17055573
You literally bit the bait you retard

>>17045183
Here is a nifty tool if you have a steel drain plug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRUhlmMU-Gw

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>pumping new oil in the diff
>put pump hoses in wrong way

>>17045183

What are gloves?

>>17046443
>not tasting it to see if it's reusable