hello everyone in the the next month my d will be ready for her second oil change since ive got her and on the first oil change i learned that its a very messy process i thought i had all the oil drained into the pan finished filling then went to move it out of driveway. apparently a LOT of oil got trapped on the skid plate? and my D decided hey lets paint the driveway with my dirty oil and a part of the street! not fun.

my question is is there an easier way to not get oil everywhere? do i have to take the skid plate off every oil change? what do you guys do?

 

I have changed my oil a few times in my D now and never had a oil mess....

 

Fold the plastic plate back, otherwise it is a mess.

 

With the 4.7L its can be messy, I would recommend just taking the plastic cover off, or folding it back as indicated above.
Thats because you have a 5.2L and it is not located in the same place. Much easier IMO on the 5.2L and 5.9L!!

 

Change the oil - what ever for...

If your 4.7l is anything like mine there is enough oil leaking from the rear main seal to impress the captain of the exxon valdez...

Just keep putting more in... don't worry about changing it - it will never have time to get dirty...

 

I would get a remote oil filter set up. It is going to drain down the block anyways.

 

Or you could do that

 

if you are referring to the mess from the oil filter, not much you can do except pull the splash panel down, if you are getting a mess from a skid plate under the oil drain plug i would suggest a drain valve with a hose nipple on it and a piece of hose they are not expensive and make oil changes MUCH easier


your the rare case having an oil leak mine doesnt leak at all, i put 6 qts in i get 5.5 out after 5k miles.

 

The OP never stated the year or engine of his truck... just sayin

 

WTF, Plastic skid plate? Or is that one of those 01-03 cost saving things?

On my 5.2 I haven't really had a problem with the oil getting on the skid plate (which is definitely metal on mine), the messy part is the filter.

Like old_school said, it would help to know what engine we're dealing with.