Oil change by color?

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>

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.

Freddy, it's time.

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

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

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".

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....

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

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.

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:

Ewwwwwwwwww

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