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Administrator N4W Card Holder  Ultimate N4Wheeler  |
...brave the heat and drop the rear axle again to flip the shims to rotate my pinion up. I'm getting my jackstands and realize I'm tracking oil across the garage.
I had a large plastic container that I use for used oil that had one oil change worth in it....yeah...the bottom seam on the jug split. What a %##%&ing mess. Lots of cat litter is down now, and all my blocks of wood in the garage are goobered in oil, along with the bottom of my popup bag.   1998 Frontier 4x4, 2002 Xterra 4x4, and Z28 street rocket Pass here and go on. You're on the road to heaven - Kerouac |
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N4W Card Holder NISSAN4WHEELER  |
I feel your pain- the first oil change on my Mitsubishi cab-over diesel, I left the old oil filter o-ring on the engine accidentally (ignorantly) and shot 12 quarts of black swill all over my shop floor, engine, and front of the cargo box when I started it. You would think fresh oil would be clearish, but not diesel apparently. What a friggin' mess.
-Spike 'Tolerance allows the weeds to overwhelm the garden' |
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Wheeler |
That sucks, but if you call a film crew over maybe they could shoot another action scene from the "transporter".
dave 96 4WD reg cab ka24e 3" SL, Calmini Steering soon R180 LSD, H233B Lock-Rite |
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N4W Card Holder NISSAN4WHEELER  |
Scooter says "meh."
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Off-Road Warrior |
I always just use a 6 gallon plastic gas can to keep my used oil in. You can keep several oil changes worth in it then it's easy to take it down to checker/autozone for recycling.
They're a lot more durable than the drain pans. Brent 1972 K5 Blazer  |
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Administrator N4W Card Holder Ultimate N4Wheeler |
It wasn't a drain pan..it was an old kitty litter container that I've been using literally for years.
Finally gave up. 1998 Frontier 4x4, 2002 Xterra 4x4, and Z28 street rocket Pass here and go on. You're on the road to heaven - Kerouac |
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Off-Road Warrior |
I use the jerry cans for a few years until they start getting old. Then conveniently after you dump them you're at a place where you can buy a new one
 Brent 1972 K5 Blazer |
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Overlander |
Ive got a buddy that takes all of my old oil and uses it in his heater in the winter. Its just trying to get the buckets back...
 "Look! It ate a goat!" |
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Administrator N4W Card Holder Arrr.. Me good eye! Ultimate N4Wheeler  |
I keep my used oil in 5 gallon paint buckets.. They hold up realy well and are dirt cheap.
I feel ya though.. oil messes really suck to clean up.  ------------------------------------------------------------  <--Click Me!"As a lion is to a cat, so is a mastiff compared to a dog." "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety." - Benjamin Franklin |
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Overlander |
I take my car in to get the oil changed. They do it faster AND cheaper than I can, and dispose of the mess.
With the truck, I change the oil and toss the used oil in a barrel in my parents' barn that we use to treat fence posts. Shhh... |
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Ultimate N4Wheeler |
 I don't change my oil but once a year - not much to dispose of...................... "Climate change is no longer science. It's politics... Climate change is also about power. Power to control.... It's about who gets to decide: how much energy we will have... where that energy will come from... what it will cost... It's about simulations, scenarios and monsters conjured up by computer models that should never be used to chart government policy -- especially on matters that will profoundly affect our livelihoods, living standards, life spans and dreams of a better future. "So hold onto your wallets, and hope you can hold onto your homes, cars and jobs. You're about to be put on a wild political roller coaster." - Paul Driessen, TownHall.com |
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Administrator N4W Card Holder Ultimate N4Wheeler |
I have 4 registered and driven vehicles. I don't trust those jiffy lube places to do it, and I run synthetic blended oils - you never know what you're getting at those shops. Plus, I like the confidence knowing it was done right and that I got a new filter each time. 1998 Frontier 4x4, 2002 Xterra 4x4, and Z28 street rocket Pass here and go on. You're on the road to heaven - Kerouac |
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Moderator N4W Card Holder Ultimate N4Wheeler |
Andy I feel ya. Remember last year I was working on my Mother in Laws car and same thing.
Except it went all into my huge socket set that was open.   Meh. |
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Off-Road Warrior |
I have 5 registered and driven vehicles, plus I'm tearing into the beast on a regular basis. If I changed all the fluids in the K5 it would more than fill a 6 gallon can (not counting coolant).
8 qts of oil 10 qts of transmission fluid 8-10 qts of gear oil 3 gallons of water/coolant if you're counting Brent 1972 K5 Blazer |
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Ultimate N4Wheeler |
Woord  A roomy of ours went to a quick lube place. Got serviced and prompltly after that the trans died... Another guy I know found out the hard way that his drain plug was missing after an oil change. Cost him an engine. ..................... "Climate change is no longer science. It's politics... Climate change is also about power. Power to control.... It's about who gets to decide: how much energy we will have... where that energy will come from... what it will cost... It's about simulations, scenarios and monsters conjured up by computer models that should never be used to chart government policy -- especially on matters that will profoundly affect our livelihoods, living standards, life spans and dreams of a better future. "So hold onto your wallets, and hope you can hold onto your homes, cars and jobs. You're about to be put on a wild political roller coaster." - Paul Driessen, TownHall.com |
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