UOA Sample Bottle

[racer12306]

There's a first time for everything.

Last week, my first time over filling an engine, while I'm only 39 I've touched more cars than many working in a quick lube (no judgement, I like to think I was one of the good ones, /self-righteousness) for 5+ years. Temporary concentration lapse. The agony of buffoonery.

Fortunately just 1/4ish qt over. Anyways...

Didn't realize it until a couple days later, the result not letting it sit 1/2 hour before checking for accuracy. I have two official oil checking locations, in my dad's garage (I borrow his lift for all my work) or in a very specific spot in the parking lot at work for the most level sites. These are calibrated spots within BITOG tolerances.

Best way I had to remove that oil was with my analysis pump and I sacrificed a prepaid bottle. So now I have a prepaid UOA without a fresh bottle. The oil that was in it was only 100-110 miles old.

Would you just drain it really well, wipe it out, and roll with it for the next time I want to UOA?

or

Would you pitch it and come up with another bottle that ideally would fit in a sample pump?

or

Something else?



Replies dripping in sarcasm expected.

 

[Cherrybomb]

No sarcasm here,your overthinking it.Clean out the bottle really good.The important thing is you got the oil level to the proper level.Continue on,keep that 1/4 quart in case you have to add.

 

[zrxkawboy]

Would you just drain it really well, wipe it out, and roll with it for the next time I want to UOA?

^^^this

 

[racer12306]

No sarcasm here,your overthinking it.Clean out the bottle really good.The important thing is you got the oil level to the proper level.Continue on,keep that 1/4 quart in case you have to add.

Unfortunately, the only container I had to put it in was a water bottle. So, it's trash lol.


$5 of HPL appropriately disposed of in an environmentally conscious way.

 

[Ride_Red]

Pour it out and wipe it out with a paper towel.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

I have had an oil sample on deck to go out then forgot what car it was from, lol.
So I dumped that in the used oil jerry jug, gave it a rinse with some gasoline, dumped that in the used oil jerry jug, then gave it a rinse with fresh motor oil, and that bottle went mouth down over the generator gas tank. I suppose if you don't want to use gasoline that MAF cleaner or similar would do the trick.
Now I ask why dump 1/4 qt oil overfill.? I dump 1/2 qt over but never had issue with 1/4 over - unless its drag nite and I was searching for a 10th.

 

[racer12306]

I have had an oil sample on deck to go out then forgot what car it was from, lol.
So I dumped that in the used oil jerry jug, gave it a rinse with some gasoline, dumped that in the used oil jerry jug, then gave it a rinse with fresh motor oil, and that bottle went mouth down over the generator gas tank. I suppose if you don't want to use gasoline that MAF cleaner or similar would do the trick.
Now I ask why dump 1/4 qt oil overfill.? I dump 1/2 qt over but never had issue with 1/4 over - unless its drag nite and I was searching for a 10th.

Didn't know how sensitive the 5.7 may be, didn't want to chance anything. Didn't take much effort since I used the pump. It would've been a pain to pull the plug for sure.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

The oil level goes down when you run the engine, then its raining oil out the main and rod and cam bearings. That is a deep sump pan in the 5.7 with a full windage tray so not "sensitive".

A gas snowblower is sensitive, your lawn mower is sensitive, many small 4 cyl pass car engine are sensitive.

Image that oil level moving around when you go up or down a steep hill!

03-19 Ram 5.7 Oil pan