Finally bought one of these things and it's a pretty neat gadget. Happy with it. It replaces your oil drain plug with a device that has a check ball in it. The drain plug portion has an attached metal cap that screws on with your fingers. The other half is a metal fitting that screws into the checkball outlet and has a clear tube attached to it. So you screw the metal fitting into the checkball outlet, and the oil drains nice and neat through the tube into your receptacle.
$50 and I would say worth it. Well engineered and well built. Available on Amazon.
I also looked at the Fumoto valve, which is just a drain plug device without the tube/metal fitting.
Only downside to either one I can really think of is if you took it to have the oil changed at a shop, you would have to tell them what's going on or have the valvomax metal fitting thing with you to give them to use. So I do my own.
$50 and I would say worth it. Well engineered and well built. Available on Amazon.
I also looked at the Fumoto valve, which is just a drain plug device without the tube/metal fitting.
Only downside to either one I can really think of is if you took it to have the oil changed at a shop, you would have to tell them what's going on or have the valvomax metal fitting thing with you to give them to use. So I do my own.