You've been pouring motor oil wrong all your life.

[Apme123]

I just found out that I've been pouring motor oil the wrong way all my life.

It hit me when I saw this orange juice video.


Live and learn.

 

[yesthatsteve]

I've done it that way for a while. You get a much smoother pour.

 

[Apme123]

Yeah, tend to spill just a bit every time. Next step was to use a much bigger and wider funnel.

 

[Dyusik]

Look at delo bttles. I hold the bottle sideways so that it does not get in the way whenI have no funnel handy. same effect

 

[Wheel]

Why do they put the handle on the 4 and 5 quart jugs on the wrong side for this ?

 

[simple_gifts]

So people spend $35K on a vehicle and don't bother to open the OM; chances are they aren't reading the instructions on a $2.25 bottle of oil either.

 

[volk06]

The side pour is where it's at. A smooth pour and no spilling or burping.

 

[Apme123]

Side pour ehh?? i'll try it next time.

 

[Bud_One]

Originally Posted By: Wheel
Why do they put the handle on the 4 and 5 quart jugs on the wrong side for this ?


+1

 

[Run]

Originally Posted By: Wheel
Why do they put the handle on the 4 and 5 quart jugs on the wrong side for this ?


So you can spill lots and have to buy even more oil.

 

[The motor guy]

Me too. I generally put it in slow enough to allow air to enter as the oil leaves. Otherwise if you do it upside down, you spill about 3oz before you get it at the right angle for it to pour like shown in the video.

 

[HTSS_TR]

I had been doing side pour for almost ever, no funnel was needed and no spill either.

 

[AKhan87]

I have been doing side pour, but this is brilliant.

 

[bbhero]

I just use a large opening funnel to where on Ray Charles could miss it. Makes it easier and actually it fits the opening on my Altima's oil opening really well. This comes in hand especially for the 5 qt containers.

But yeah the side pour does work very well when necessary.

 

[bvance554]

Dang...

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: volk06
The side pour is where it's at. A smooth pour and no spilling or burping.

Side pour was perfect with taxis with SBC engines to do top up without a funnel. However, through most of the Quaker State years, the bottle was much more symmetrical, so for those years, orientation was completely irrelevant.

 

[Silk]

My boss taught me to do this with 4 gallon and 5 gallon drums when I was an apprentice 45 years ago - I try and show the young guys at work how to do it properly, but they just think I'm a silly old fool, and pour out of 20 litre drums going glug, glug, glug.

 

[I_4]

So how did you pour oil in the days when oil came in a can, cardboard at one point, sometimes steel, and the end caps were steel? I know what I did, and that was put a vent hole on the opposite side of the pour point. Simple, no glug. Yet going to the latest style plastic oil containers, it would appear that some forgot or never even realized how to pour without the glug. So what will the next generation of oil container look like? Will the container have the handle on the "right" side for the pour?

 

[Garak]

I still have one of the piercing funnels in my garage somewhere.

I'd still usually pierce the can twice to speed up the flow.

 

[demarpaint]

I've been doing it that way for a long, long time. It spilled over from pouring thinners etc. used in painting. No pun intended.