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Yea I read the posts that some of you have put up about the position of the oil drain plug on the newer gas trucks. I loosened the plug and thought go ahead and remove it, how bad could it be.
I always have a tarp down on the cement driveway and was glad I did. It came out like this
Straight at the transmission oil cooler. Shaped like a giant sardine can the powerful stream of oil deflected off the raised lip edge like this.
Is that some sort of engineering joke. Probably looked funny on computer imaging.
I was ready to fix the issue with one of these on the ready.
This was the size for the 2025 6.8 Rodan V8.
The sardine can looks like this.
I might have to fabricate a protective shield for that thing and the lines. Looks vulnerable from road debris.
Overall the oil change was not that bad. Had to trash the tarp, the oil drain container needs a good power wash and only my left arm to the elbow got oiled.
Tested the Valvomax when I used 1 quart of fresh oil to flush the break in oil from the engine. Works good. Had 300 miles on the new engine and the oil filter was not easy to remove.
Lol that was exactly my experience as well. I added a valve the first time too. Do share if you come up with some shielding for those lines and cooler.
Necessity is the mother of invention... I don't need no fancy plug!
Having owned a number of different Ford trucks, I've finally decided no one from Engineering talks to the people at Chassis... Every. Single. Truck. I've had, has had a poorly placed drain plug, and/or oil filter... so the drain on the 445 was no surprise.
And... like you... I'm a little surprised that, for a 4WD truck, there are an awful lot of seemingly fragile (plastic, aluminum) things dangling down from above, underneath.
Quote: dont you hate it when the average truck owner out smarts a over payed educated engineer I'm an educated engineer, but I just wish I was overpaid!
My favorite was the drain plug on our '76 2wd 390, positioned on the side of the pan about 1" above a frame cross member. There was no room for any kind of funneling or routing, the oil would hit and spread on the member making a nice curtain of flowing oil about 12" wide.
I have a little oil changing mat thingy that's rubber with what must be a lead sheet sandwiched inside. It can be bent and formed to suit the need, I hung it on top of the sardine can with a gradual forming into a V at the bottom. Clean change.
I added a magnetic plug, but no other valves or outlets. I like my oil to gush out as fast as possible to hopefully stir up and wash out any junk on the bottom of the pan
Nice flow there bpounds! Yeah, a gush like that to carry junk out. Nice set up there, I read a post in another forum where some guy said he got a $20 oil changing bucket that came with cat litter. I still chuckle about that.
The rest of the story: I drained the pan completely clean and thought I was pretty cool. But then I fumbled the filter, which of course, dropped in my catch pan and splashed everywhere. I am going to pay the ransom and get one of these
Necessity is the mother of invention... I don't need no fancy plug!
Having owned a number of different Ford trucks, I've finally decided no one from Engineering talks to the people at Chassis... Every. Single. Truck. I've had, has had a poorly placed drain plug, and/or oil filter... so the drain on the 445 was no surprise.
And... like you... I'm a little surprised that, for a 4WD truck, there are an awful lot of seemingly fragile (plastic, aluminum) things dangling down from above, underneath.
I was going to say, before I moved to parts I worked the lube rack and I had multiple deflectors made out of washer fluid jugs. You learn real quick which vehicles are going to give you trouble.
Nice flow there bpounds! Yeah, a gush like that to carry junk out. Nice set up there, I read a post in another forum where some guy said he got a $20 oil changing bucket that came with cat litter. I still chuckle about that.
The rest of the story: I drained the pan completely clean and thought I was pretty cool. But then I fumbled the filter, which of course, dropped in my catch pan and splashed everywhere. I am going to pay the ransom and get one of these filter changing funnels.
I did the same thing. Dropped the filter, but missed the pan and left a nice failure mark on the driveway. Planning to punch a hole in the filter and let it drain before changing it next time.
Quote: dont you hate it when the average truck owner out smarts a over payed educated engineer I'm an educated engineer, but I just wish I was overpaid!
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