A reason not to pre-fill an oil filter
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The sweater says Gap, not Armani. Wear your stain with pride.
Any filter that goes upside down (openings on bottom, sitting on top of motor) would be on my never prefill before installation list.
Well, you ARE @oilstained 
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My VWs have the cartridge filter on top so I don't need to pre-fill. Sometimes, I wear my Brioni tux when changing oil in them (no, but I could). I do quite a bit of mobile mech. work for friends and neighbors though. I don't usually mind looking like a slob, but mostly wear decent clothes because an after work lunch is generally the repayment for my efforts. So I wear respectable clothes and just use a disposable Tyvek painters overall suit until I'm done. I get them at HD for ~$10. I sometimes take a Sharpie and write "Bibendum" on it as a nametag.
.My VWs have the cartridge filter on top so I don't need to pre-fill. Sometimes, I wear my Brioni tux when changing oil in them (no, but I could). I do quite a bit of mobile mech. work for friends and neighbors though. I don't usually mind looking like a slob, but mostly wear decent clothes because an after work lunch is generally the repayment for my efforts. So I wear respectable clothes and just use a disposable Tyvek painters overall suit until I'm done. I get them at HD for ~$10. I sometimes take a Sharpie and write "Bibendum" on it as a nametag
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I have dedicated oil changing clothes. We were in San Francisco and it was so cold in the summer. Mark Twain was correct. We bought the cheapest hoodies we could find and they were matching dark brown hoodies with a large California flag on the front.
For laundry, I'd use dish detergent like Dawn and spray it down with Simple Green.
I don't prefill because I doubt the benefit and I'm already messy enough changing oil. The stains on my garage floor are evidence of that.
For laundry, I'd use dish detergent like Dawn and spray it down with Simple Green.
I don't prefill because I doubt the benefit and I'm already messy enough changing oil. The stains on my garage floor are evidence of that.
Before environmental restriction there was "safety solvent" and and Freon TF.
I was in a Delco plant back in the early 90's and got a big glob of grease on my jeans. My electrician took me to the tool crib and "bought" me a spray can of safety solvent. Put a rag behind the stain and sprayed it liberally. Solvent evaporated within minutes and the stain was gone.
If dry cleaners still have effective stuff it may work - as long as the dyes are resistant.
I was in a Delco plant back in the early 90's and got a big glob of grease on my jeans. My electrician took me to the tool crib and "bought" me a spray can of safety solvent. Put a rag behind the stain and sprayed it liberally. Solvent evaporated within minutes and the stain was gone.
If dry cleaners still have effective stuff it may work - as long as the dyes are resistant.
Lestoil works pretty good on oil in clothing.
Dunk the shirts in a bucket of clean oil so the staining is consistent.
God, I haven't heard of Lestoil since I was a kid. I remember the television commercials.... "It's so easy when you use Lestoil"!
I didn't even know they still made the stuff.
At my age pretty much everything in my closet is good to go for oil changes. 
You match your name and what the heck with a polo shirt in the first place and a wool sweater?
Good one. Hahahahahahahaha Wow.
Good one. Hahahahahahahaha Wow.
I have never been able to remove oil stains from clothing. Always wear old clothes even when using a MityVac.
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Even when I used a MityVac and now that I use an electric pump I still get oil on me.
These threads are always good "perspective adjusters" to remind me while most members talk a big game and posture (it is the internet after all), only a small percentage (single digits I'm guessing) walk the walk every day.
I'm in the shop everyday and it's always steel (composite, technically) toes, dirty Duluth Trading pants (I don't give Carhartt my money) and a dirty cotton shirt.
This doesn't make me better than anyone else, but it would seem I'm better at dressing for an oil change. WOW
I'm in the shop everyday and it's always steel (composite, technically) toes, dirty Duluth Trading pants (I don't give Carhartt my money) and a dirty cotton shirt.
This doesn't make me better than anyone else, but it would seem I'm better at dressing for an oil change. WOW
I came here to ask if the name was pre-stain or if it was changed post-stain.
One thing I would add with the Kerosene / Powerwash treatment, is after soaking the stain first with Kerosene, blot as much off as you can with a clean absorbent rag. Then repeat several times. Then give it the Powerwash treatment.
Prefilling, for me has been hit and miss as I often remember or forget.
Same goes for oil Bolt gasket. Sometimes I forget to bring a new one under the car and just flip the old one over and reuse it.
just too lazy to crawl out; I have a bag full of them.
Clothes I retire my old t-shirts to the garage cabinet and use them for an OC then I have a good hand rag until I throw it out.
I can do my oil change in less than 30 minutes and loving it!
Same goes for oil Bolt gasket. Sometimes I forget to bring a new one under the car and just flip the old one over and reuse it.
just too lazy to crawl out; I have a bag full of them.
Clothes I retire my old t-shirts to the garage cabinet and use them for an OC then I have a good hand rag until I throw it out.
I can do my oil change in less than 30 minutes and loving it!
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I'd throw the clothes out.
That amount of oil in there will be hard to remove.
At least the washing machine a few times empty to remove any oil residue inside. Pretty sure you don't want any of that on your other clothes.
Oh, and don't dress like Mr. Rogers doing an oil change lol. I try to use clothes that were on their way out so if I get them dirty, they go right in the garbage.
That amount of oil in there will be hard to remove.
At least the washing machine a few times empty to remove any oil residue inside. Pretty sure you don't want any of that on your other clothes.
Oh, and don't dress like Mr. Rogers doing an oil change lol. I try to use clothes that were on their way out so if I get them dirty, they go right in the garbage.
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In his latest video changing oil in his new Tacoma he splashed oil everywhere, from the far tire to the camera
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As a owner of multi a Harley the last 30 years, I doubt I own one Harley Clothing anything that don't have a oil stain on it.
Not a dig to the AMF days or anything as my bikes are solid but when you riding on top of an engine and checking oil to whatever one does during a day of riding, oil stains are just part of the experience.
Its a reason MOST Harley T-Shirts are BLACK!
Not a dig to the AMF days or anything as my bikes are solid but when you riding on top of an engine and checking oil to whatever one does during a day of riding, oil stains are just part of the experience.
Its a reason MOST Harley T-Shirts are BLACK!
