oldfella1962
Senior Member
No kidding! I love exercise - to include outdoor work - but I stop and evaluate nearly everything I am about to do and figure out the safest way to do it, and that starts with climbing out of bed in a slow, safe manner.
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Cost of an oil change
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AugustaDawg
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ddgarcia
Mr Non-Libertaw Got To Be Done My Way
Shop around a little and you might save some on this. Personally I have found that my local Wally has by far the cheapest oil but their filters are outrageous. Conversely, my local Advanced Auto has the cheapest filters and not so much on the oil.(Fortunately, they are right across the street from each other and on the way to and from work)
Sometimes Advanced or another store will run those "oil change specials" and I can get the oil with the filter for about the same cost as buying separate from the two different stores.
And for the record, I'm responsible for 5 vehicles with my personal being an '04 F250 which takes 16qts.
Batjack
Cap`n Jack 1313
I've always sneezed like a on coming typhoon and even when younger have slip'd a disc in do'n so.. now a days the whole household comes run'n to see if I can still walk after a good one.
j_seph
Senior Member
Know the feeling
Jester896
Senior Clown
mine does too....I think I am paying $89 at the place I use and bring the K&N filter. 3 gal of Rotella is $20 a gal and so is the filter. Seems worth the $20 for them to dispose of that amount of oil and I don't have to dig it out from under my fingernails.
crackerdave
Senior Member
And use cheap filters that fall apart. From Carquest.
NE GA Pappy
Mr. Pappy
FYI guys... a cheap filter is probably the most costly thing you can put on a vehicle when you do an oil change. Buy a good name brand filter, ( and store brand filters aren't good, for the most part they are just barely better than no filter at all) and make sure it is for your application. Ask commercial trucking companies what filters they use, and try those brands.
The black Wix filters are good, along with Fleet Guard, Baldwin and Donaldson. Most of the others are just barely there or plain junk.
The black Wix filters are good, along with Fleet Guard, Baldwin and Donaldson. Most of the others are just barely there or plain junk.
you will find out one day,getting down and back up is a major issue !
Baroque Brass
Senior Member
Usually when I try to get off the creeper it scoots out from under me. I can get up and down, it just takes a lot more effort than it used to. Last time the Ford place changed the oil they charged me $29 for a drain plug. Seems it’s a special plug, not the threaded ones we‘re used to. It ain’t $29 worth of special and I don’t know why it had to be replaced. Anyway, the oil I got yesterday is for my 93 Silverado, I like changing the oil in it myself.
tr21
Senior Member
they just dont know ! wait until getting off the creeper is only half the battle. then you have to find something to grab on to to pull yourself up. then they'll think back !
turkeykirk
Senior Member
I remember when people used to just drain the oil on the ground.
I remember when people used to just drain the oil on the ground.
It's good to treat the butt of fence posts.
In the clear cuts where the equipment leaks it. The hogs waller in it.I remember when people used to just drain the oil on the ground.
I got a burn barrel I start my fire with a little if it.
Nic I put some on top of fence post to. Should mix sone diesel with some and do my trailer wood.
sinclair1
Senior Member
I already do that? At the end of the oil change and after some groans, I pull myself up.
I am at the no ladder work time right now. I had to go pick up my dad when he was 86, so hopefully I can go
That long.
fflintlock
Useles Billy’s Clubhouse Maintenance man
I ain't gonna lie, I'm lazy. I'll pay someone to do it. I've worked on enough vehicles to last a life time. I'm through with all that now. I only change my mower oil now... 
transfixer
Senior Member
Be very wary of the oil change places, they strip oil pan drain bolt threads out on a regular basis , but I've seen many worse situations, we've had cars towed in because someone drained the transmission fluid thinking it was the oil drain, and then overfilled the engine, I've seen this multiple times, the vehicles will usually move but won't go far, and usually the clutches are burnt in the trans as a result, oil change places have had to pay for many a transmission rebuild over the years, I've seen oil drain plugs not tightened, and they fall out two weeks later,
Keep in mind they employ the just slightly above minimum wage people, usually the ones that can't get a job where they have to use their brain !
Keep in mind they employ the just slightly above minimum wage people, usually the ones that can't get a job where they have to use their brain !
Why u want to talk about Rosco like that.
specialk
Senior Member
I ain't gonna lie, I'm lazy. I'll pay someone to do it. I've worked on enough vehicles to last a life time. I'm through with all that now. I only change my mower oil now...
Son does that...tractor too....cant do as much physical stuff anymore, but my supervisory skills have gotten 100% better!
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