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Gotta love it. My Windstar and Focus both have the spouting oil drain plug. good thing I have a Looooong pan.

Oddly, the Ford engineers screwed up with the Focus Oil filter location. It is mounted with the opening straight up and there is NOTHING below it to interfere with your access. when you remove the filter, you just spin it off and carefully turn it over into the oil pan with no drips. What were they thinking

Of course the Windstar has it's filter mounted at a 55.6 degree angle and blocked by a crossmember. To increase the level of difficulty, while you can get a strap wrench on the filter (after a few gyrations), you can only turn it 2.04 degrees so it is a b#%^h getting off. Once you remove it, oil gushes out and soaks the crossmember so no matter where you place you pan, you are guaranteed to miss.

Sigh....
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