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NFW...every oil change I've ever done, the hot oil shoots out in a horizontal stream like a bad case of whistle dick. I use a huge drain pan with curved up sides and lots of room for error in predicting initial trajectory of said stream. Sometimes I hold it close to the drain hole at first if the vehicle is far from the ground, like my F-250 with 4 gallons(!) of hot oil inside.

No thanks, amigo.
Same here. Learned that lesson after overflowing a pan with small hole that couldn’t keep up with a 911 draining. Yeah I know, rookie mistake.
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