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Oil change after rebuild?

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Skoti:
Yep,

I normally change the oil and filter after around 200 miles as well as pulling the sump to check the oil pump strainer gauze is spotless.


I'm sort of obsessed with cleanliness in those engines, remnants of crankcase gasket sealer etc floating around can block the camshaft oilway jets and cause disaster.

     

K2-K6:
I use one of these https://creedsdirect.co.uk/p/5ltr-stainless-steel-mixing-bowl/ to drain oil into, has a nice pouring lip, dont you just love a "nice pourer" to empty through a funnel back into the oil container.

Very easy to look through the oil remnants with a torch when the dregs are left in the bottom.  Ordinarily nothing to report  :)

I didn't pay that for it, £1.00 at a car boot sale  ;D also I buy those stainless tray that have separate compartment for nuts and nibbles from the 1970s, very Abigail's party type, home counties paraphernalia  ;D these ideal for stripping carbs etc and keep all the bits in order while job is ongoing.

Did have one of those oil can with drain on top devices, but when usung the oil to start a bonfire had left it propped up in the fire structure, forgot all about it and only remembered when I went to get it for next oil change  :-[

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
We have an Asian shop locally that sells those big SS bowls in amongst the pots & pans section for well under a tenner. I use them mainly as dog water bowls.

Matt_Harrington:
Cut down old oil containers work for me!  ;)

Trigger:
Mine is a old washing up bowl  ;)

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