ae86 Tech #86-3: Oil

Oil prices going up and me being the cheap bastard. I need to find ways to extract as much oil from the bottles that I use. Here's a couple of tips that I have picked up.

If it's a hot day, especially if you live in the desert communities. Let the oil bottle sit out for a little while to warm it up. This helps the oil flow out of the bottle faster.



If you're in an area where it'll never get hot, then never mind the first one and do this. Get a bucket full of hot water, but don't fill up to where it submerses the bottle, drop the oil bottle into the bucket. Makes sure the oil bottle in capped, you don't want water seeping into the bottle. Let the bottle sit for a few minutes to warm up. Then pour when ready.

There's also products that empty out residual oil from the oil bottles. Like this piece from Hansen Global Inc.

Rather than getting the little quart bottles of oil, get the larger bottles. One larger bottle is enough for one 4AGE oil change. Once you go through the bottles there's always some residual oil left over. There's more residuals in 4 quart bottles and than in the gallon jug. It's also convenient to put all the old oil in once the bottle is empty.

Please remember to dispose of any used oil at a recycling drop off.

Last Chance

The last weekend to prep before Utah. I took the day off from my second job to take care of the maintenance for all the vehicles. And made some final adjustments on the car before Utah.
Picked up some tires from City Tire if you are in so cal, consider yourself lucky, a shop like this which caters to the drift community. For the larger events, they even bring out a truck and trailer equipped with tires and mounting equipment. If you can't bring enough tires to an event, pre order from them and they'll bring them out to you. Wow, that's service.

Just like an assembly line I did the maintenance on all the vehicles in the fleet. It really doesn't help when it's +90 deg out side and sweating like crazy. I want a bigger garage.

The oil I use for all vehicles. Motorcraft for the Ford, cause it's specifically blended for the Ford. Eventually, like all the other vehcles in the fleet, i'll be transitioning over to Rotella T, to make things less complicated.

Being a blistering hot weekend, just made things really difficult. By the end of the day my eyes felt like crap, I don't know if it was cause the sweat was running into my eyes or cause it was so bright out. But the neighbor had a nice bbq at the end of the day which made things much more nicer with an ice cold beer.