Oil Change by Color?

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Wed. Oct. 03, 2012 5:50 pm

Smitty should be able to answer this one, but anyone can chime in. If the odometer & hour meter are broken, can you change oil just by looking at the color? I'm thinking I could have waited another season before changing this...whatcha think? <grin>

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mozz · Post by **mozz** » Wed. Oct. 03, 2012 6:58 pm

If you have to drive a 2 ft. screwdriver through the oil filter to remove it, it is somewhat overdue. If the viscosity is about the same as that of black water, it is somewhat overdue. That was a 1976 Chevy Monte Carlo with the 305, bought off my boss for $90, he used it through the winter then sold it to me. I drove it for 3 years then sold it for $300.

I'm On Fire · Post by **I'm On Fire** » Wed. Oct. 03, 2012 6:58 pm

Freddy, it's time.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Wed. Oct. 03, 2012 7:53 pm

Slightly better than the old Blazer engine, but I'd change it anyway ...

And yeah, that's supposed to be a white filter there ....

Post by **Rob R.** » Wed. Oct. 03, 2012 8:47 pm

Freddy wrote:Smitty should be able to answer this one, but anyone can chime in. If the odometer & hour meter are broken, can you change oil just by looking at the color? I'm thinking I could have waited another season before changing this...whatcha think? <grin>

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You can, but the oil may or may not be "spent".

Poconoeagle · Post by **Poconoeagle** » Wed. Oct. 03, 2012 9:27 pm

oh! youse guys...... now if ya both stop playing with those dee's holes and service gazz motors then the color thing can be used as a mane ten ants card....

jpete · Post by **jpete** » Thu. Oct. 04, 2012 12:02 am

I usually wait until it looks like the day it came out of the ground.

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Thu. Oct. 04, 2012 4:44 am

SMITTY wrote:Slightly better than the old Blazer engine...

Ohhh MY! LOL You got me Smitty.... I was kind of joking as my oil came from a diesel. They get black in an hour. The hour meter is busted so I kind of go by how much fuel I put through it. Your black oil is sick man! Arghhhhhh!! Your poor Blazer.... at that point I don't think you should be changing it. You should just keep adding until death do you part.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Thu. Oct. 04, 2012 9:51 am

Yeah, that's one of the reasons that engine has been in the trailer for the past 13 months. That, and it burned a quart of 20w-50 every 50 miles .... in WINTER!

When my wife left for work in the morning, you couldn't see in the neighborhood for a half hour.

Here's what the exhaust did to the snow, just running for 2 minutes:

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Thu. Oct. 04, 2012 11:38 am

Ewwwwwwwwww

Cap · Post by **Cap** » Sun. Oct. 07, 2012 8:00 pm

I use my sense of smell more so than by color.