5000K Oil Change while traveling

Yep, I do similar.

Not recommended for a windy day!!!!
Roll of paper towel $2
Painters drop sheet $2
Cheap plastic supermaket bucket 12 - 15 litre (not 9lt) $6 - $8.
Drive over drop sheet
Drain sump into bucket (Troopies high enough) (idealy little or no wind)
Change filter
Refill sump
Decant bucket into empty 5lt oil containers (big funnel)
Dispose of drop sheet in oily bucket.
Clean up funnel etc with paper towel.
Dispose of bucket in general waste, (clean with paper towel if desired)
Dispose of oil at local tip recycling facility.
Regards: Grant

Yeah ....that sounds like the way to go, just pick up a cheap bucket and drop sheet, that can be simply thrown away.

Actually, when I think about it, people are usually pretty helpful when you are travelling. Its a long story, but we suddenly needed a makeshift roof rack in Alice, to carry a spare tyre, someone else had been carrying for us. We went to the local hardware store to buy some plyboard and a set of cheap bar & brackets, and were able to borrow a drill, to put holes in the board. Saved a lot of time & money.

Thanks for the replies, think the oil change issue is the last of worries.

That is funny, but I can see how it would be an easy thing to do. Lucky for him, you had a spare, as its not something we would normally carry in our spares, but I think we'll put it on the list ....just goes to show, you never, never know what you may need.


cheers
Terry & Amanda

Hi Terry and Amanada

v funny story, but not me, but the Gards who pioneered the modern era on the CSR ...

bet Willem carries a spare sump plug or three

Cheers Rocco

""Telling the group to go on he drove off the track, undid the sump plug and drained the old oil. In his struggle to get out from under the vehicle he dropped the sump plug in the sand and was unable to find it."
Proves what disgusting environmental vandals 4WD owners are. What makes it even more disgusting is that you are not disgusted dropping the old oil in the sand. The disgusting antics of 4WD owners needs to be reigned in fast. A super tax on 4WD or something needs to be imposed to stop 4WD environmental vandalism. Every where you go on beaches or in the bush you see first hand 4WD environmental vandalsim.

That's why I carry a spare small blue tarp to lay on while doing the oil change, catches any spills, and anything you may drop, before it gets too dirty. You can pick up the tarps on special for a dollar or two at car part outlets on special.

Is Paul right, he dropped the oil into the sand and didn't collect it in the old container and take it out with him? Thought that used to only happen in the bad old days!

"Proves what disgusting environmental vandals 4WD owners are. What makes it even more disgusting is that you are not disgusted dropping the old oil in the sand. The disgusting antics of 4WD owners needs to be reigned in fast. A super tax on 4WD or something needs to be imposed to stop 4WD environmental vandalism. Every where you go on beaches or in the bush you see first hand 4WD environmental vandalsim."

paulnsw, how do you know he didn't use a container or the like? Did you just assume he dumped the disgusting oil in the sand? Please explain what other disgusting antics us 4wd owners get up to. Sure, there are disgusting idiots out there that do the wrong thing, but to tar all 4wdrivers with the same disgusting brush is not right. How would a disgusting "super tax" work? Your disgusting narrow-minded views are not welcome here. Disgusting.

Cheers,
Dan

Gidday

the quote from the book is the quote from the book. It doesn't say he collected the oil and it doesn't say he didn't. Maybe we shouldn't think badly of everybody and give the driver the benefit of the doubt And it was a long time ago, probably in the 80s. Was that the bad old days? Still see a lot of people trashing the country ... and stand a bus stop and see where all those environmentally cariing bus users drop their butts ...
Cheers

Rocco

paulnsw

I am a 4x4 driver, and I am not a vandal of any sort.

I do my oil changes anywhere that I have to, and then dispode of the oils in the propper manner, so that it has minimal enviroment effect.

Get off this forum !
You must be intelectually constipated.

Bucky

Its a 2003 GU 4.2 ...and yeah we may push it out depending where we are. No point trying to get oil in a town that only has a pub!

We will do the full service before we leave, but figure it will be about due for fresh oil by the time we get to Cairns or atleast before we leave, to head across to Darwin. Our rough estimations tell us we will be in the Kimberleys, at 10K.

Any recommendations ?