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07-07-06

Fumoto Oil Drain Valve

Changing the oil in your car is a bit of a pain, and usually involves fishing around in an oily mess for the drain plug you dropped. The Fumoto Valve makes the process a lot tidier and easier. It's simply a ball valve with a locking quarter-turn action. You install it in place of your oil drain plug, and after that, draining the oil is a matter of a quarter turn on a lever. The lever locks in place in the closed position, making it difficult for vibration to open it. It does project slightly below where the old drain plug would be, but this is not a problem unless you're rock crawling in the Camry.

-- Michael O'Connor

Fumoto Oil Drain Valve
$23
Available from Fumoto Valve

 


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#1 | Sat, 04-18-09 12:37
Toyota.

I bought F-103 one of them from
www.qwikvalve.com
It was $22.95. five cents cheaper.
Also they ship really fast.

 
#2 | Tue, 09-15-09 07:12
Rich Cook

I bought one of these years ago and love it. One of these days I'll add some surgical tubing to my kit so I don't have to worry at all about oil spills. The only reason I do spill is because my aim is bad. This slows the drain process (drink another beer) but is awesome. I usually change my own oil but one time when I needed it done and took it into a place, the guy was blown away by the ease of using it. Awesome product. Every car should have one!

 
#3 | Fri, 10-02-09 09:00
Andrew

I'm moving to Colorado Springs soon. Should I be worried about this getting knocked off when I pull over some serious snow?

 

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