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KillerBee370 · 08-15-2011, 10:51 PM

So I changed my oil today. It's been about 5k miles since the last give or take. Just turned 19k miles and nothing out of the ordinary drive/noise wise.

So I usually drain the oil into the pan and then funnel the used oil back into the empty oil quart containers and box 'em up as it's just easier to take them back to the auto parts store that way as opposed to taking the large container. Well when I was refilling the quart containers with the used oil I filled only 3 of them!! And the kicker is that I flushed a half a quart of fresh oil through so in reality what I had in the engine was only 2.5!!!!

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?

Minimal metal shavings on my magnetic oil drain plug.. nothing out of the normal. I have a magnet on the oil filter so no way of telling how much metal is in there but my guess is nothing out of the ordinary. No leaks in driveway and once I got the skid plate off, everything was dry underneath on the oil pan etc. Oil came out dark but normal for 5k worth of my nutty driving.

I dunno...

Here's the used oil.. the upside down quarts are emptys and the other 3 are full. (I put 5 quarts in the car)

08-15-2011, 10:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
KillerBee370 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: So Cal baby! Age: 51 Posts: 5,964 Drives: with passion Rep Power: 321	KillerBee's been runnin on 2.5.... wtf? So I changed my oil today. It's been about 5k miles since the last give or take. Just turned 19k miles and nothing out of the ordinary drive/noise wise. So I usually drain the oil into the pan and then funnel the used oil back into the empty oil quart containers and box 'em up as it's just easier to take them back to the auto parts store that way as opposed to taking the large container. Well when I was refilling the quart containers with the used oil I filled only 3 of them!! And the kicker is that I flushed a half a quart of fresh oil through so in reality what I had in the engine was only 2.5!!!! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!? Minimal metal shavings on my magnetic oil drain plug.. nothing out of the normal. I have a magnet on the oil filter so no way of telling how much metal is in there but my guess is nothing out of the ordinary. No leaks in driveway and once I got the skid plate off, everything was dry underneath on the oil pan etc. Oil came out dark but normal for 5k worth of my nutty driving. I dunno... Here's the used oil.. the upside down quarts are emptys and the other 3 are full. (I put 5 quarts in the car)