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Kayteg1
Oct 20, 2019Explorer II
chiefneon wrote:Kayteg1 wrote:
Get Fumoto valve and you will smile each time you drain the oil.
Howdy!
Those are great if you change your oil yourself. I had one in my truck when we first started fulltiming and had places refuse to do the work with it installed are I’ed go back to using one.
“Happy Trails”
Chiefneon
I never used any chain oil changers, but read enough horror stories to think that Fumoto valve require higher skills to open and that was the reason for refusal ;)
Trucks have huge plugs, but on fellow Mercedes forum, you will read how "Speedylube" strips the threads and lately, they cut hole in belly cover as they could not figure out how to remove 6 holding screws.
Anyway, I made 8,000 miles trip this summer and still have some oil life left (Scangauge has X gauge to monitor that).
But all I need to do oil change are couple of wood planks to drive front wheels on and I fit under RWD truck just fine.
Couple of milk bottles to catch oil from pan and the only problem is bottom-mounted filter who splash some oil, but on the road a big garbage bag should catch the couple of oz.
Finding the place (in the woods?) where nobody would bother you might be the hardest part.
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