2.7L 4 Cylinder Oil Filter Removal without Spilling

doesn't the Fumoto valve take along time to drain the oil pan as opposed to using the plug. I have read where the valve trickles out the oil slowly?

 

Not at all.

I have the Fumoto, it's every bit as fast.

 

That's true but I'm thinking a slower drain may take MORE shit out of the engine but I'm probably wrong.

 

maybe, I was going to get one but I want to get it over with quickly don't want to wait until the pan is dry, I can do the plug pretty good but still get some oil on my hands

 

I only difference in the way I look, to the way you look in that photo, is that I never miss getting it in my eyeball sockets too.

 

I have a Fumoto and am doing an oil change in less than 15 minutes start to finish.

It's not slow.

 

Flipping a switch is quick enough for me

 

Cut the bottom off a plastic milk jug and screw the plastic lid on tight.

Get your oil filter tool and loosen the filter just a bit. Enough so you can do it the rest of the way by hand but not enough to let any oil spill out.

Put the milk carton up over the filter. Since you already broke it loose you can put your hand up around the milk carton and spin the filter off with your fingers. Let it and all the oil fall into the milk carton.

Milk carton has a handy handle so now you can carry it off to dispose.

 

Genius!

 

do you jack up the front end? cause if not you must be a contortionist

 

I think it'll work.

 

Nope, I just toss some cardboard under so I can slide easily, grab the bottom of the truck, and pull myself under.

 

No, I just turn the wheel to the left and go in between the frame and upper control arm. I have to use my left hand and have to remove my watch so I can get in there. I will be getting oil down my whole arm.

 

hmmmmm

 

Good info here, but you will also find good info in other threads if you do a search.

My approach: wedge a 6" x 10" piece of cardboard behind the oil filter and loosen the filter enough to trickle oil, letting the cardboard deflect the oil to a drain pan. After a few minutes, remove the filter, keeping the open end up. No messes, no problems... yeah the oil filter is in a stupid place but that's true of many vehicles.

Before I got smart, I hated burning my arm on the hot exhaust more than I hated dribbling dirty oil! Now I wait 15 minutes for the header to cool before sticking my gorilla arms in there.

 

You guys came up with some good ideas. I like the soda bottle and milk jug ideas the best.

 

I just take mine to the dealership and eat as many cookies as I can while they change my oil.

Back a couple years ago when I changed my own oil I would stop by a furniture store and get a mattress box they put out by the dumpster. They are nice to slide up under the truck as another guy mentioned. The nail to punch a hole in the filter works great also. Use to do that myself.

 

Cardboard underneath the truck. Puncture a hole in the filter to drain with a funnel w/ a long flexible tube pointed toward the drain pan.

 

I use old zip lock bags. I can slip it over the filter and turn it with the zip lock bag on. The zip lock part is rigid enough so the bag doesn't wrap itself up on the filter mount. When it looks like the filter is going to drop off I catch it in the bag and zip it up and put it in my haz-mat recycling box - eventually the oil does eat through the bag. Bags and cheap enough that I don't mind throwing them away.