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I have just finished pouring an actual concrete floor in my shed (used to be dirt and gravel) and am now faced with having to service the Safari and was hoping someone on hear might have a magic tip on how to remove the oil filters without making a mess on my new floor.
I never used to worry to much with the old floor

Use the neighbours front lawn

One idea is to make a cardboard drip tray, so oil that drains out of filters runs down cardboard and into catch tray. Then when new filters on, remove card and if you're successful theres no oil spilt on engine to drip off
Or do it on the gravel, then degrease it and wash down before taking into shed. I imagine if its wet before draining then oil won't stick as well and so will wash off easier

kbjj wrote:Use the neighbours front lawn

Best not my nearest neighbours are DoC rangers living in the park, they may not see the funny side

slide wrote:One idea is to make a cardboard drip tray, so oil that drains out of filters runs down cardboard and into catch tray. Then when new filters on, remove card and if you're successful theres no oil spilt on engine to drip off

Chees, I will give it a go.

Get a big piece of old carpet or rubber or ply for oil change time. Doesnt matter how hard you try you will always drip some. Use a deflector as others have said also to guide oil down from filters if really keen.

an old piece of carpet underneath soaks oil up a treat and it burns well on the fire aftrewards

patrol forum guy made a drain tray to bolt on under filters then into catch can would like to repost pics but can't photo bucket a bastard

coxsy wrote:patrol forum guy made a drain tray to bolt on under filters then into catch can would like to repost pics but can't photo bucket a bastard

I like this idea I may have to have a look at doing something similar. Woild be great to see it so I may have to do some net searching

1kz's have a factory drain tray and pipe for filters ... maybe a nissan one could be made up?

Best thing to protect your nice new concrete floor is to paint it with some special gloss concrete paint. That way if you do spill anything, the paint stops it soaking into the concrete and its real easy to mop up.

Even just painting the area where the tuck will sit should help keep costs down.

There are drip trays on TM for these, but looks like only for the motor that use 2 of the same filters.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 924780.htm
I use oil spill mats that we have at work, they do a good job.

DaveM wrote:There are drip trays on TM for these, but looks like only for the motor that use 2 of the same filters.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 924780.htm.

Cheers Dave that will save me having to make one hopefully

I faced the same problem in the weekend,,
Managed to get a plastic bag and rag under the filters - un screwed it and dropped it in. Threw a big rag on the floor and one on top of the diff. Made considerably less mess than it otherwise would have,

Cheers Tom.

Yep the placement of the filters is really good from the point of view that you can easily access them but the mess factor is not a small one. Hopefully I will win the drain tray one on TM otherwise I think I will make one

Suza wrote:

coxsy wrote:patrol forum guy made a drain tray to bolt on under filters then into catch can would like to repost pics but can't photo bucket a bastard

I like this idea I may have to have a look at doing something similar. Woild be great to see it so I may have to do some net searching

I make them $30 delivered send me a pm if you want one instead of waiting for the auction to finish

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =563924780

nismo26 wrote:

Suza wrote:

coxsy wrote:patrol forum guy made a drain tray to bolt on under filters then into catch can would like to repost pics but can't photo bucket a bastard

I like this idea I may have to have a look at doing something similar. Woild be great to see it so I may have to do some net searching

I make them $30 delivered

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =563924780

Hope I win your auction then

DaveM wrote:There are drip trays on TM for these, but looks like only for the motor that use 2 of the same filters.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 924780.htm
I use oil spill mats that we have at work, they do a good job.

Yea the one that uses the two different filters is slightly different, I did do one that was fitted to the different filters but it need cutting and grinding to fit.

I only had one little drip last time I did the filters using the tray, saves getting oil over the starter motor and block.

I have a few made up $30 including postage.

I have just finished pouring an actual concrete floor in my shed (used to be dirt and gravel) and am now faced with having to service the Safari and was hoping someone on hear might have a magic tip on how to remove the oil filters without making a mess on my new floor.
I never used to worry to much with the old floor

Never had an issue with this, just a couple of rags on top of the starter motor took care of it.

On a side note, two different filters??? What motors have that because every time I ring up to get some filters I have the same argument that mine are both the same.

curly12 wrote:Never had an issue with this, just a couple of rags on top of the starter motor took care of it.

On a side note, two different filters??? What motors have that because every time I ring up to get some filters I have the same argument that mine are both the same.

shit since when did you ever change a filter or do any maintenence ..... that thing of yours has still got the same cobwebs and shit all through it that it had when I first met you 6 or 7 years ago

some have the same filters some have two different one see patrol forum.com

All of my Safari's have run 2 different filters, one standard, one anti drain.

good going on that , but then only have one

contact nismo on here he made a few for me and others $3o /$40 works a treat cheap as lot less mess

Just done the deal with Nismo cant wait to get it and bolt her on.
Then service time without mess

i just put a tray on the floor with sawdust in it. Then when done go for hoon down gravel road. dust stops oil from dripping off.
Those drip trays sound like a good idea

nismo26 wrote:

DaveM wrote:There are drip trays on TM for these, but looks like only for the motor that use 2 of the same filters.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 924780.htm
I use oil spill mats that we have at work, they do a good job.

Yea the one that uses the two different filters is slightly different, I did do one that was fitted to the different filters but it need cutting and grinding to fit.

I only had one little drip last time I did the filters using the tray, saves getting oil over the starter motor and block.

I have a few made up $30 including postage.

Got another for the different filter setup?

Cheers

Sadam_Husain wrote:shit since when did you ever change a filter or do any maintenence ..... that thing of yours has still got the same cobwebs and shit all through it that it had when I first met you 6 or 7 years ago

Bollocks!!!! This was only 3 years ago......

DaveM wrote:

nismo26 wrote:

DaveM wrote:There are drip trays on TM for these, but looks like only for the motor that use 2 of the same filters.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 924780.htm
I use oil spill mats that we have at work, they do a good job.

Yea the one that uses the two different filters is slightly different, I did do one that was fitted to the different filters but it need cutting and grinding to fit.

I only had one little drip last time I did the filters using the tray, saves getting oil over the starter motor and block.

I have a few made up $30 including postage.

Got another for the different filter setup?

Cheers

Na haven't had a proper look at one to be able to make one.

Just bolted in the drip tray I got from NISMO, It looks the part and went straight on real nice and easy