Worst oil change ever

[orezok]

Follow up on my oil dilemma. At the time of the spill I discovered that I didn’t have any oil dry in stock. I was not able to get any until the next day so it had a long time to soak in.

I did have mineral spirits but it did little to remove the stain.

This is what was left after the mineral spirits.

It didn’t help much.

I have used a product from Amazon in the past called Pull it Out and it worked well.

This is what one treatment with the PIO product resolved.

Definitely a great improvement over mineral spirits

I’m going to hit it with another batch of POI and live with the results.

 

[pretendfarmer]

At least you were at home and didn't have to suffer any embarrassment. Long time ago I decided to do an oil change on my 1 ton diesel (12 quarts) behind my buddy's shop, laying on the concrete. His techs were working with the doors open. I was using one of those large 4 gallon drain pans with the small hole in the middle - brand new (worst ******* design ever).

The oil was hot and I pulled the plug. I quickly realized that the speed of the oil coming out of the truck was overwhelming the hole in the drain pan. I watched in horror as it started overflowing. I hurriedly tried to put the oil pan bolt back in and DROPPED IT into the pan. The oil pan bolt blocked the hole completely and by the time I fished it out and got it back into the oil pan, almost all of the 12 quarts was headed down the concrete in a toxic black river.

At least 2 of the techs were watching, and I ran to the first one in a panic and asked where the oil dry was, and he just rolled his eyes at me and ignored me. The 2nd guy told me but by the time I got back to the spill, it had spread some 25 to 30 FEET. I spent HOURS cleaning it up, and there is still a stain to this day, almost 20 years later. Awful experience, and the only time I ever spilled oil.

 

[DieselBound]

Nope, never saw any, and maybe "sludge" is the wrong descriptor to use. I just always assumed that at least some particulates you're draining out with the old oil may have started settling to the bottom of the pan as soon as the motor stopped turning, and that pulling the plug would be a better way to flush them out, than drawing oil out from the top.

Small particles get mixed up in the oil and whisked out when you drain/suck the oil out (remember: you're doing an oil change after the oil has been warmed up). Large ones mean you have big problems: one is either allowing crap into their oil OR the engine is shedding material at an accelerated rate (damage instead of just wear).

"pulling the plug" != "flush" (a "flush" means pressure and the only pressure, if you can call it that, is GRAVITY)