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You can use a drip pan (not the one from your wife's stove but one purchased at an auto parts store or WalMart) and solvent-safe containers. I prefer old coffee cans...they have wide mouths to pour into, they are impervious to solvents, are wide based so will not tip easy and have a lid you can attach even with oily hands. Hunt down an oil recycler in your area or check with the local speed shops, some will accept you oil for a fee. In my area, several dealerships have used oil furnaces and will take the oil for free, but that might not apply if you are outside of the rust belt. Keep some shop rags handy, it is a messy job, especially when you drop the drain plug into the drip pan (notice I said "when" and not "if"). HAve fun:)

Sneaks

Run engine until it's warm. (warm oil will drain out more easily).

Get a big empty oil can from somewhere. Square shaped. Cut one big side open. Place under drain hole. Drain oil in there. A one gallon canister will hold all the oil that would come out. Keep the cap on the canister screwed on tight. That will later be the easiest drain hole for the cut canister....

When you are done, put the drain plug back and tighten.

Add fresh oil until your dipstick shows oil level touching the top line. Go gradually, always wiping the stick dry and getting a fresh reading every now and then. When you have th eoil level at the max line.. run the engine again for a brief while. Let it sit 5 minutes. Check oil level again from the dipshit and add oil if necessary.

Jan

Hey! I know he's a newbie but sheeeeeeshhhhhh Jan.....name calling??..........gonna have to moderate Jan's post from now on.....

Sneaks

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"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott" wrote

I use a plastic catch pan. Most auto parts stores carry some type of these. They usually have a pouring spout on one side to make it easier to pour the oil out. If you have enough clearance you may be able to use a funnel and drain directly into a storage container instead.

I save emply plastic jugs (milk, Clorox, orange juice, etc.) to store old oil. Using the above mentioned pan, along with a funnel, I pour the oil into said jugs. Our local dump will take used oil free of charge. I just have to pour it into their big tank. Some garages or auto parts stores may take the oil for you at no charge. Ask around your local area to find out.

I get a big piece of cardboard from an appliance store, like a box that a refrigerator or washer/dryer comes in. It's big enough to slide under to catch drips and still give me room to lay on it instead of the ground. Appliance stores have always given me these when I've asked. To keep your hands clean, you can use latex gloves or mechanics gloves like they sell at Sears.

hth

"Jan Andersson" wrote

Hey, what've I got to do with this?!

;-D

LOL. And the dipshit would be me?

Jeepers -- I knew the guys on this NG could be tough!

no matter how neatly you change your oil, your acvw will still manage to accomplish this. ;)

LOL

I thought some of you would catch that ;)

Jan

Also,remember St.John M based his oil change intervals on personal bias and '60s tech.Oils are so much better now and 3000 miles for a part time driver only uses half as much oil.Steve

Oiled the driveway yet? Try using fresh [or not] cat litter to soak up that oil old oil. Not the fragrant kind. The old clay based kind. [If you can't find the old clay based kind there is some kind of grit someone sells that is like that but sold for oil and fuel spills.] Even grind it in with your foot. Let it sit there for a day or so. Then sweep it up and dispose of it. No more oil slicked driveway.

I use a standard plastic oil pan and carefully pour the old oil into a plastic milk jug for transport to the local FLAPS (which recycles old oil for free).

But I have also seen low-profile plastic catch-buckets that close up and avoid any need to pore from one container to another. Check at the local parts place.

Max

Can I be the dipshit for a while????? Or am I already?

Newbie pointers.

I know someone (of course it wouldn't be me) that messed up the acorn nuts on the bottom of the oil strainer. Don't tighten them... they're about the thickness of a toothpick.

Good question.....

Timmy

I have one of those, I think it was like 3-5 bucks at Autozone, the big opening on the top also has a "screen" built in so you can stick the cover and the screen on there to drain off for awhile. Its pretty nice, you just screw the top back on when your done and off to the auto parts store to drain it in their tank! Mark Detro Englewood, FL

Alright now.................All the guys are shooting good suggestions atcha...............................maybe I can send in my entry and win.

For a "newbie" I suggest that you , if you want to catch the oil and fill other containers with it, use a discarded Antifreeze bottle, or such size, .................It's already flat kinda, and you can just cut the side out of it ( the large rectangular side not the small one) and lay it down under the car, keeping the lid on it for obvious reasons. When you have drained all the oil out of the car, that you intend to drain, You can then use the "pan" you have made to fill the OIL CONTAINERS that you just emptied filling the car to the desired level......................This is way too simple for most of us to think of , but why use a whole seperate version of container, when you have the two empty quart oil containers handy..................of course the oil drainage hole/ assembly should be plugged back up before filling.

I hope my explanation is helpful.

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I recall reading in "Catch-22" of a man in the hospital totally covered with dressings, bandages, and plaster. A bottle was on a stand next to him dripping a liquid into a rubber hose that led into the plaster on his arm. An aluminum tube protruded from his crotch. Attached to it was a rubber hose leading into a bottle on the floor. Every few hours, an orderly would come along and switch the two bottles.

For a brief moment I thought your suggestion was heading in the same direction.

Or just pour in a gallon of fresh oil, then go underneath and open the drain and catch the oil until the empty bottle is full again. :) (I just crack me up.)

...me three. highly recomend these units. Although the lid isn't really really secure it is good enough for keeping splash from transport. The screen catches the drain plug no fus no muss....about the closest to mess free you can get.

..Gareth

My engine holds seven quarts and then some. :( I just drive over a hole in the yard. That's okay, right Greenies? Returning the oil from whence it came.

.......................I think Joseph Heller once said that the guy in the full body cast was symbolic of the literature columnists/critics who he knew were going to trash him and his book with their same old bull$h!+. It was more than a few years before the NY Times discovered that it was a great novel after all.