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Mal don't clean the underside before you go to Victor Harbour as the oil will help keep out the water. (lol)
Regards Pepe

Thanks Pepe, but I'm hoping the current weather will clear for our trip over next week.

Sorry to hear of your oil spill the result will be that you will always remember to check the location of drain pan before moving car. Hard lessons do help us when you stop learning you have quit living.
My experience with creepers is I do not use them having had one for many years which I don't use. A large piece of cardboard is easier to slide on and has a small amount of cushion effect and when it gets dirty just put it out with trash. If used when changing oil "SMALL" spills do not get onto concrete floor thus saving clean up time
Hope you have safe and trouble free trip

OH NO!!! Call out the environment people. You know what this means, we will have to tear up your garage floor and dispose of it and probably 6' of dirt under it to a proper waste management site.....LOL

I do remember an old article in either Pop Sci or Mechanix that showed how to dispose of your waste oil by digging a hole in your yard and filling it with sand then you dumped your old oil in that.... Seems like an approved method to me??

John

OZ....just realized I have not keep myself up-to-date on this blog. I had no idea Wade moved and I had no idea you took half you motor apart!

I'm sorry for lagging behind. my last post was 2013...geesh I'm horrible!

I found the work you did to your engine very informative and helped me understand ALOT about the Packard 8.

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Ahh for the good old days. Today in this state that would get you in deep doo doo and all it would take is a "concerned citizen" making a phone call.

The environmental police in the form of any number of bureaucrats who live for making examples of that form of transgression would be swarming the property. Every environmental group wanting to be more visible to call attention to what ever pet project they have would start picketing the place. Lawyers would work overtime building a hanging case and to make it complete, you would get to pay for half the acreage of the property where the quart or two of oil got dumped to be dug up, treated and then for good measure carted off to a hazardous landfill.

Back in the day - working as an young teen in my father's Packard dealership - we would take the crankcase draining accumulated in a 55 gal. drum and spill it on the dirt road leading to the city land fill. The city encouraged this to keep road dust down. This was common practice. Today we would go to jail for doing this, and rightfully so. We did so much unintended damage to the environment in those days.

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When I was doing all the nasty work on the car, especially cleaning up the paint guns, I had a "Dump Bucket". This was a 10 gal plastic bucket (like those orange Home Depot ones) 3/4 filled with sand and gravel. I kept this to the side of the house. Anytime I had any kind of solvent, paint, etc , I would dump it into this bucket. Time and the outside heat would take care of evaporating pretty much everything. If the bucket ever got too manky, I waited for the free household hazardous waste disposal day the city has once every few months and dropped it off. Then started over. I only had to do this twice.

For garage floor oil spills, a quality absorbent kitty litter works wonders. Spread it on thick, let absorb for a few hours, and sweep it up.

when I was younger we dumped all our used aircraft oil into 55 gal drums, then donated it to the local golf course. they would use the oil to treat piles of sand which were used for the sand greens, back before they got all hoity-toity and grew grass ones.

sometimes while golfing I'd find little bits of safety wire and know that our oil had been used for that putting surface, we didn't always remember to strain those out...