Oil change Tips

[pwrwagonfire]

Im looking for any tips/words of advice that can be offered for changing the oil in a 64 WM300

Have heard a few...but Im going to do it myself for the first time this week (or next) (hopefully!) and would like to hear as much about it as I can


FYI: The filters it takes is not the "bunch of socks in a nylon bag" like my buddys '56, but it is a metal cartridge filter instead

 

[davesgmc]

#1 tip, use a drain pan that has a capacity LARGER than the engines oil capacity! My 5 ton with a 6-71, I had NO idea how much oil it held, that is until the 5 gallon bucket got full and dumped the additional 4 gallons all over the shop floor......they just don't make enough oil dry for something like that, i know!

 

[NDT]

Use your empty oil drain pan up on top of the engine next to the oil filter canister to accept the old filter. Use a old soup can to catch the oil from the filter housing drain plug. Then use lots of paper towels to clean the bottom of the canister, it will be full of sludge.

 

[pwrwagonfire]

Use your empty oil drain pan up on top of the engine next to the oil filter canister to accept the old filter. Use a old soup can to catch the oil from the filter housing drain plug. Then use lots of paper towels to clean the bottom of the canister, it will be full of sludge.

Ive heard to save the old washer from the filter(?) or else it will leak like crazy....

 

[pwrwagonfire]

Is the M37 oil filter a NAPA 1076?

I assumed it was...

 

[NDT]

It is a military junior element, make sure the NAPA number crosses to a Fram C-21.