Re: Re: 1955 Traction 11B “Barn Find” Project

[Anonymous]

@tripyrenees wrote:

First oil change done – not so bad.

It was a little black though but no metal fragments that I could see although it floods out pretty fast, faster than my oil catcher could cope with and dumped most of it over the garage floor.

Need a better oil catcher, specially when the car is up in the air.

The oil always looks black when it come out of mine at 1,000 kms, any metal fragments get caught on the magnetic sump plug, which if you don’t have is worth fitting.

I don’t ‘lift’ the car to drain the oil, I simply turn the wheels to left hand lock and from the right can then reach the sump plug to remove. I use a £1.00 Asda plastic bowl to catch the oil and use a funnel to pour it into an old can to take to the recycling tank to empty a mile from home.