Dirty gritty drained oil when I did the oil change today

Originally Posted by m4a1mustang Like someone already said, you can drain just enough for a sample and then top off with fresh oil. If you have a siphon pump you

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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

Like someone already said, you can drain just enough for a sample and then top off with fresh oil. If you have a siphon pump you can just siphon some out of the oil pan through the dipstick tube.

Even without a pump, you can get some tubing at Home Depot, insert it down the dipstick hole and just suck some out by mouth. I did this the last oil change when I overfilled a bit.

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