Renew Oil Filter - tip on keeping it clean?

[Quicker]

Chaps - new owner of a 89 SE and a DIYer. So I've been going through the car - getting familiar wit it and swapping all the fluids to baseline everything back onto the maintenance schedule.

Did an oil change this weekend. Is there some trick to minimize oil spill when renewing the filter?

My Lincoln LS has a horizontally mounted filter - but it's right at the bottom of the engine - you you can just unscrew it and drop it into the oil drain without getting anything else covered.

The wife's Taurus filter it mounter much higher up on the block but vertically mounted - so as long as you are careful you can drop it without a spill.

[martynv]

I'm not sure there's much you can do really its in such a confined space and whats worse is that you can't pull it straight out either cos it gets hooked up on the chargecooler pump on the SE. I think the best that can be done is to stuff plenty of rags underneath before removal and even doing this some of the oil seemed to get away last time I did it, eventualy it ran out of the hole in the undertray halfway down the car .

Martyn

[esprits4de]

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[Jonathan]

Try puncturing the can then rotating it and let the oil drain into a container - I will admit I done this a while back and got oil everywhere !

[Bibs]

Troy recently did this to my car, a few tissues mopped up the leaking oil before it hit the floor, there's not an awful lot to deal with.

[Artie]

let the car cool down for a few minutes after heating the oil up, the oil will drain some into the sump pickup tube. There will always be residual oil but as soon as I unscrew the filter I just tilt it back so I minimize spillage, but I always spill some, which is ok as it fits in with the other leaks on the floor already

Artie

[pauli]

i normally just get an oil rag wedged under the filter, seems to get most of it.