there is a easy way to remedy them reusing filters..if your talking big rigs i drive a punch thru the bottom of the filter before i remove so i dont have to try to bring a filter down with about a gallon of oil in it...

And as the old oil goes...get a shovel dig a hole, pour in oil and fill with dirt from said hole...

 

This is my current setup:

http://stuff.is-a-geek.net/PhotoAlbu...cs/Filter4.jpg

Whatever you use, it has to filter very finely to get as much of the soot and any other particulate or insoluble contaminants out of it. The Wix filter mounted there is a 12um filter and the Motorguard (black thing on the side of the tank) supposedly goes to submicronic. It uses a roll of toilet paper as the filter element. I run that for an average of 20 hours or so to clean three gallons of oil.

 

I have also used it for wood treatment. Kerosene used to make a great wood preservative till it got so expensive but I still soak the ground portion of fence posts in oil before i put em in the ground.

 

Hey NadirPoint, where did you buy that motorguard TP filter?

 

Motor Guard M30 Sub-Micronic Coalescing Filter 1/4 NPT

 

high tech!!! I had pictured more of a gravity type contraption with coffee filters or something

 

I think all that "used oil" goes to the same place that all the missing socks go after being in the dryer!!

 

Soon as I find a filter and some form of pump mine's goin back through the truck in the other side of the engine it came from

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can also drip it into a wood stove for added heat

treat wood

start bonfires?

 

Hell do it all. The filtered oil goes into the truck and what it filters out to the rest of it.

 

Hmmm... Up here in Idaho the used ol is collected locally for waste oil heaters like at the local Chevron or at the State shed for heat. But it a good way to dispose of it.