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Old Mar 6, 2025 | 12:42 PM
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Disaster averted

Things went sideways today while changing my engine oil. I saw something fall into my new Motorcraft oil jug
but wasn't sure what it was. So I proceeded carefully.
Turns out it was a rubber seal from a nozzle. You see I use the nozzle from a discarded def container that I find at the truck stops and attach it to my oil jug to make the process cleaner. Well it popped off somehow into the oil jug. Luckily I saw something fall into the jug.
Needless to say I won't be using those nozzles anymore.
Keep your Head on a swivel. By the way 55,000 trouble free miles so far.






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Old Mar 6, 2025 | 02:04 PM
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that is actually the jug air inlet to let the def flow out of the jug without poking a hole in it.
i have never had one pop out yet, and we have been using the nozzles for a few years now as they fir quart and gallon jugs perfectly.
but you do have to make sure they are fully seated because if just tossed on a shelf they can pop loose.
but when we see they are loose we toss the nozzle, as we use two pallets of DEF a year. that 192 2.5 gallon jugs a year between three dump trucks and two F550's
 
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Old Mar 7, 2025 | 07:18 AM
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I use the same style of funnel you're showing, never added anything onto the jugs the oil is pouring from.

That would of suxed if that breather nipple fell in the engine...good catch.

Most certainly disaster averted.
 
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Old Mar 11, 2025 | 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by scraprat
I use the same style of funnel you're showing, never added anything onto the jugs the oil is pouring from.

That would of suxed if that breather nipple fell in the engine...good catch.

Most certainly disaster averted.
Yes it was... Now go put another 400k miles on the truck
 
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