I've got a bit of a dilemma right now, and I'm not quite sure how to handle this.
My wife woke me up early this morning telling me the car wouldn't start. I sent her off to work in my car, and fixed hers. I checked the oil in her car as I was finishing up, and noticed it was a little low. We've recently cleaned-up and organized the garage, and now all my one-gallon oil jugs are in milk crates. I am the one who determined what jugs were moved into the crates. I also store my used oil in empty jugs before I take it to a recycling center.
I think you can see where this is heading.
I poured a few ounces of used oil into the engine. I realized immediately what I had done as I saw the oil coming out of the contained was pitch black. Unfortunately some made it into the fill hole. I used a rag and my finger to wipe as much oil as I could from the fill hole and valve cover. This particular cover has a stair step baffle underneath the cap and you cannot see the cam below the fill hole. However where I can reach my finger under the baffles, I am coming up with clean oil.
I am going to change the oil now, but I don't know if I should just drain the oil as it sits or run the engine before draining it. It wasn't enough oil to make it to the pan, so I'm thinking of pouring some oil down the fill hole with the drain plug off to "flush" the used oil out.
Any suggestions? And yes, I already know I am a colossal retard.
My wife woke me up early this morning telling me the car wouldn't start. I sent her off to work in my car, and fixed hers. I checked the oil in her car as I was finishing up, and noticed it was a little low. We've recently cleaned-up and organized the garage, and now all my one-gallon oil jugs are in milk crates. I am the one who determined what jugs were moved into the crates. I also store my used oil in empty jugs before I take it to a recycling center.
I think you can see where this is heading.
I poured a few ounces of used oil into the engine. I realized immediately what I had done as I saw the oil coming out of the contained was pitch black. Unfortunately some made it into the fill hole. I used a rag and my finger to wipe as much oil as I could from the fill hole and valve cover. This particular cover has a stair step baffle underneath the cap and you cannot see the cam below the fill hole. However where I can reach my finger under the baffles, I am coming up with clean oil.
I am going to change the oil now, but I don't know if I should just drain the oil as it sits or run the engine before draining it. It wasn't enough oil to make it to the pan, so I'm thinking of pouring some oil down the fill hole with the drain plug off to "flush" the used oil out.
Any suggestions? And yes, I already know I am a colossal retard.