Vehicle Maintenace General

[Hantavirus]

A Fumoto valve should be your first purchase for every new car. Also makes the "warm up your engine before an oil change" trick work since you can open the valve without scalding your hand and/or dousing your ratchet in dirty motor oil.

 

[ObeseScreamingBlackMan]

I'm familiar with the pan drain valves. I've been changing the oil on this POS for more than a decade without one so I think I'll just leave it as is. It's a fairly low-slung pan anyways.

I'm just being a lazy nigger, tbh.

 

[KateHikes14]

Ye its just a fumoto is such an insane QoL improvement that its kinda nuts not to go for one.

 

[ChompChomp]

Just a reminder that no matter how many times you've done something, you're not immune to making mistakes

Good thing you didn't try to dri...oh. Right.



Unrelated: Do you live in the US? If so would you mind sharing which state or region? Asking for a friend.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

A Fumoto valve should be your first purchase for every new car.

Ye its just a fumoto is such an insane QoL improvement that its kinda nuts not to go for one.

Personally, I don't see the point. I'm guaranteed to get oil on my hands when I change the filter, so I've not really solved anything.

 

[CrackPipeCowboy]

Good thing you didn't try to dri...oh. Right.



Unrelated: Do you live in the US? If so would you mind sharing which state or region? Asking for a friend.

I love burgers.

Luckily I didn't drive it far and there was still some fluid left in the transmission.

 

[KateHikes14]

Personally, I don't see the point. I'm guaranteed to get oil on my hands when I change the filter, so I've not really solved anything.

If its a downward facing oil filter, maybe, but you can either use a wrench or a bolt head attached filter. There's also peace of mind that comes from never stripping or cross threading a oil drain bolt.

 

[drammamean]

and I changed the tranny fluid with some of that Lucas transmission lubricant and sealant.

Transmissions are pretty finicky about what you put in them and the only transmission additives I would feel safe using are Lube Guard's products. If you want it to last I would do 5 or 6 drain and fills to get that stuff out of there (or better yet a complete flush and fill). What transmission is in the truck or what's the year/make/model/engine?