Last week I changed the oil in my expedition. This week while I was changing the battery (because my dumb arse left the headlights on), I noticed my oil cap was missing.
I found it and put it back on, but my question is I've been driving 10+ miles of gravel roads every day for the last week with the oil cap off.
certainly not ideal ...
So my choices are:
1 - do nothing, and change as normal
2 - sample and see what it says
3 - dump it just to be safe.
teeter-tottering between 1 and 2 right now. I'm least excited about #3 because I put in the most expensive oil I've ever used (amsoil XL) and I really don't want to burn the oil or money ...
sampling it would cost me about $7, so I could swallow that.
this may not seem like a big deal, but there are rocks on top of my intake manifold just from driving gravel. that stuff gets kicked up and goes everywhere. So I'm worried that the PCV will have sucked in enough dust to create a problem.
the problem with option #2 is how do I sample it without pulling the drain plug? I'm not sure how I can syphon it through the dipstick hole into a bottle.
What does the group think.
I found it and put it back on, but my question is I've been driving 10+ miles of gravel roads every day for the last week with the oil cap off.
certainly not ideal ...
So my choices are:
1 - do nothing, and change as normal
2 - sample and see what it says
3 - dump it just to be safe.
teeter-tottering between 1 and 2 right now. I'm least excited about #3 because I put in the most expensive oil I've ever used (amsoil XL) and I really don't want to burn the oil or money ...
sampling it would cost me about $7, so I could swallow that.
this may not seem like a big deal, but there are rocks on top of my intake manifold just from driving gravel. that stuff gets kicked up and goes everywhere. So I'm worried that the PCV will have sucked in enough dust to create a problem.
the problem with option #2 is how do I sample it without pulling the drain plug? I'm not sure how I can syphon it through the dipstick hole into a bottle.
What does the group think.
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