Comment on 5-minute oil change place
Montagge@lemmy.zip 4 days agoGet yourself something like this www.oreillyauto.com/detail/c/…/l90693?pos=9
Nitrile gloves are your friend!
Some oil filters you let drain for a little bit before removing. My frontier even has a little drain channel so I can drain it into the drain pan with the filter loose. Then I take it off. There’s a lot less mess than if I just rip it off fast! Not sure it that applies for you or not!
I’m not sure what the rules of your disposal site are, but I use a 3 gallon (I think) waste oil container that I take into O’reilly Auto when it’s full. I just put it on some old cardboard or something during transport to keep it from getting oil on other stuff.
For tools you can clean them with pretty much any degreaser from brake cleaner to dish soap. I don’t recommend the brake clean lol. For the most part I have dedicated oil change tools since all I need is a 14mm and a 15mm wrench to do all 3 of my vehicles.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You make good points. Truthfully, I only got back into doing it myself within the last 2 years. I haven’t done any vehicle more than twice. Somehow I always think I’m too good for the gloves and today will be the day I do it cleanly - only to use the same value in paper towels. Unfortunately, I know at least 3 filters are bottom-mount vertical. They have oil sitting in the galleys above it and spill more as they wobble off. I’ll have to check the drain plug sizes and see. I’m sure there’s repeat sizes, all being metric. I do use brake clean for the final spray since I’m not aware of any other nogrinse degreasers (also haven’t looked)
I do kind of enjoy my 300cc motorcycle. The drain plug is on the kickstand side (good with the lean) and the filter is a cartridge type that lives high on the block and on the not-kickstand side. Basically all the drip is from playing operation with the cartridge on the way out. And it only takes 1.4qt.