Another Garage tip...
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From: San Pedro CA
Another Garage tip...
I have never seen this discussed around here...
I decided to collect the drips left over inside an oil container after an oil change. I saved the last half dozen or so bottles and started to drain them into a collection bottle via a big funnel.
When done, I had four ounces of good, clean Mobil 1 ready for top off or whatever.
Amazing.
I decided to collect the drips left over inside an oil container after an oil change. I saved the last half dozen or so bottles and started to drain them into a collection bottle via a big funnel.
When done, I had four ounces of good, clean Mobil 1 ready for top off or whatever.
Amazing.
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From: Fuquay Varina North Carolina
Originally Posted by bogus
I have never seen this discussed around here...
I decided to collect the drips left over inside an oil container after an oil change. I saved the last half dozen or so bottles and started to drain them into a collection bottle via a big funnel.
When done, I had four ounces of good, clean Mobil 1 ready for top off or whatever.
Amazing.
I decided to collect the drips left over inside an oil container after an oil change. I saved the last half dozen or so bottles and started to drain them into a collection bottle via a big funnel.
When done, I had four ounces of good, clean Mobil 1 ready for top off or whatever.
Amazing.
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From: Bergen County, NJ
Originally Posted by VinceC4
I do the same thing with my booze bottles..you never know..
That oil thing frustrates me, there is always a few drops left in it, no matter what.
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Originally Posted by VinceC4
I do the same thing with my booze bottles..you never know..
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From: Chico California
Originally Posted by bogus
I have never seen this discussed around here...
I decided to collect the drips left over inside an oil container after an oil change. I saved the last half dozen or so bottles and started to drain them into a collection bottle via a big funnel.
When done, I had four ounces of good, clean Mobil 1 ready for top off or whatever.
Amazing.
I decided to collect the drips left over inside an oil container after an oil change. I saved the last half dozen or so bottles and started to drain them into a collection bottle via a big funnel.
When done, I had four ounces of good, clean Mobil 1 ready for top off or whatever.
Amazing.
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
If the dumbfu*** at Mobil 1 didn't have to be so special with their big freakin caps, it'd fit in the fill hole and you could leave it there to fill without having to dangle it over a funnel.
In fact, I'm going to quit buying it strictly based on the caps.
In fact, I'm going to quit buying it strictly based on the caps.
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From: My redneck of the woods louisiana
Originally Posted by VinceC4
I do the same thing with my booze bottles..you never know..
or wipe up the bar and squeeze the rag into a jar
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From: Professional just means you get paid
Originally Posted by Wayne88
I saw that done with ketchup bottles at a roadside diner. They even had a holder for 4 near empty, upside down bottles pouring into a funnel into another bottle.
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From: Lecanto Florida
Originally Posted by Wayne88
I saw that done with ketchup bottles at a roadside diner. They even had a holder for 4 near empty, upside down bottles pouring into a funnel into another bottle.
http://www.hansenglobalinc.com/oil_saver.html
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From: WI
Originally Posted by CentralCoaster
If the dumbfu*** at Mobil 1 didn't have to be so special with their big freakin caps, it'd fit in the fill hole and you could leave it there to fill without having to dangle it over a funnel.
In fact, I'm going to quit buying it strictly based on the caps.
In fact, I'm going to quit buying it strictly based on the caps.
I agree, what is up with that large cap style?
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From: Bay Area CA
Originally Posted by bogus
I decided to collect the drips left over inside an oil container after an oil change. I saved the last half dozen or so bottles and started to drain them into a collection bottle via a big funnel.
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From: Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die
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Originally Posted by Aardwolf
I agree, what is up with that large cap style?
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Originally Posted by Aardwolf
I agree, what is up with that large cap style?
It fits perfectly into the LTx valve cover.
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From: Kelso WA
We were mountain biking in the boonies one time when my buddy's chain froze up. I noticed there had been some logging going on in the area, so we looked around for an empty oil container. Just enough left in it to lube up his chain and get us on down the road. Thank God for litterbugs...
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Originally Posted by bogus
I have never seen this discussed around here...
I decided to collect the drips left over inside an oil container after an oil change. I saved the last half dozen or so bottles and started to drain them into a collection bottle via a big funnel.
When done, I had four ounces of good, clean Mobil 1 ready for top off or whatever.
Amazing.
I decided to collect the drips left over inside an oil container after an oil change. I saved the last half dozen or so bottles and started to drain them into a collection bottle via a big funnel.
When done, I had four ounces of good, clean Mobil 1 ready for top off or whatever.
Amazing.
That way, when my brother would come by w/ his Saleen, I would not have to crack open another quart just to top off his pig 
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From: San Diego, Ca
At one time JC Whitney, would sell you a complete system (along with the amazing spark plug that fired in oil). It's been a long time since I've looked at one of their catalogs - will have to see if I can't scrounge one up the next time I'm at Borders so I can see what else is new. Now if I could just figure out how to do this with a can of refrigerant . . .