Re: Oil change made easy
I still like doing the change from the bottom, it lets me pull and read the magnetic oil plug also. With a dozen vehicles to service it is good to do a look see underneath also now and then.
I have been running A NON CROSSFIRE experiment that might be of interest for at least for the conversational aspects of it. I get a lot of used oil and with fuel prices have been up a dollar a quart I have been testing the idea of using the oil as a fuel.
Used oil causes me to drain it into a transport container, truck it down to the reclaim store, dump it and drive back taking a 1/2 hour of my labor and some additional gas. I decided to try out a thought by burning MY OWN oil as I know where its been and not mixed with paint thinner or brake / transmission fluid. This is going to get some eyebrows going....
I mix the oil 50 - 50% with gas to thin it, add a magnet and let it steep in the sun with a wooly big magnetic to remove the iron particles that got thru the oil filter. When I fill up I add one quart of oil ( 2 Qts ) of mix to the tank. I use my 112,000 mile old dodge work truck as the test vehicle and have 6 months of experience. No issues to date.
The diesel guys have been doing this at a higher mixture for some time with good results. I have tried up to 5% oil mix without any detectable changes and typically use 1.25% oil as my FUEL. For me that is one quart per 20 gallon tank, works out to about 13 gallons per year or up to 52 dollars recovered WITHOUT the added expenses noted above to return the used oil FOR FREAKING FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All cars burn oil, its just a matter of how much. I feel that at my low dosage, there should be no detectable issues. 5% mixures were without any visible side effect(s).
Just my idea, if it goes better or worst Ill let you know. The indicated computer milage has gone up 0.1 - 0.2 mpg which I believe is due to the LOWER traffic density we see these days.
Enjoying, Woody
Last edited by waldig; Aug 20, 2008 at 01:39 PM.