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Oil Udder XL
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Ddelallata
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I ordered one last night. Looks promising .
bigdodge
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I use it on my crv.
really helps
really helps
That's good to know.. I've spent $100's worth of gadgets to make working on cars easier and some turned out to be total duds.
RockYacht2020
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I was gonna post "this will make a great stocking stuffer for my mechanic" and then decided not to post that fearing the ensuing boos. Good thing I didn't post that. 
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We reviewed this elsewhere on this forum. It didn’t really work well for me on the Ram, as there’s just not enough room to use it. It caught the initial oil drop after breaking the seal, which was nice. Then it dumped oil everywhere when attempting to remove the filter due to having to nearly fold it in half to get the udder out with the filter. Back to plastic bags for me.
Jako
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Thanks SpeedyV.
Bought it, didn't look like it would work so well, held off and you confirmed my suspicions.
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why not attach a hose to the end to drain the oil before completely removing the unit?
I had a hose attached and used it for the initial drain. But you can't fully drain the oil until you've fully removed the filter (some gets trapped above the filter, in addition to that which sits inside), and you've got to practically fold up the oil udder to get enough clearance to do that. There's very little "extra" space for both the body of the oil udder AND the oil filter itself to share. The result is that even with a hose attached, oil spills out of the folds of the oil udder. I found it very cumbersome, and the magnet is worthless when you can't keep the filter and udder aligned. It just adds stiffness that doesn't help in such a small space.
Keep in mind that I have a 4WD truck. Even with my air suspension fully raised and the truck on Rhino ramps (which allows me to sit on the floor between the axle and bumper and reach straight in to access the filter), I had no luck. The oil udder has a clever design that works if you have adequate access to a filter from directly (or close to directly) underneath, and that might be the case for 2WD trucks, but it was a waste of money for me.
The only other possibility would be to get the oil udder in position and then stab a hole in the oil filter before removal. It would be tight to get access to the filter to do that while the oil udder is in place, but (theoretically) doing so would allow the oil both inside the filter and trapped above it to flow down. I just don't see this being any easier than using Ziplock bags, which (while a little messy) fit the tiny space around the filter so much better.
That's exactly how I was viewing this product. It's a little more rigid than the baggie, but the bulk of it seems like it would make things no easier.
Tried again last month…and failed again. The Oil Udder did great at catching the initial oil spillage. But there’s just not enough room to get the filter out without turning it fully sideways, and that’s not possible until the Oil Udder is out of the way. So I’ll go back to the slightly-less-messy two-bag method.
I fully acknowledge that you all may have figured out a trick that I haven’t. Or am I experiencing a worst-case scenario with 4WD, air suspension, and Off-Road Group?
I fully acknowledge that you all may have figured out a trick that I haven’t. Or am I experiencing a worst-case scenario with 4WD, air suspension, and Off-Road Group?
barrak
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Two bags, one bag and a towel, or an adequately absorbent thick towel would do just fine.
Get in the Christmas spirit and gift-wrap your Oil Udder for a poor soul with a 2WD 1500.
Dewey
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Same on my 22. Don’t spill a drop. I’m trying to understand how some can have so many problems with it?
Idahoktm
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Same on my 22. Don’t spill a drop. I’m trying to understand how some can have so many problems with it?
Me too. It worked great on my 21 Laramie 4x4.
I don’t see A/S or ORG on yours or the past two posters’ trucks. I’m curious to look at a suspension diagram to see how much that affects things. On mine, there’s very little clearance to drop the oil filter vertically; it has to be tilted almost horizontally and squeezed past cables and wiring. It’s easier to lay it on its side and bring it out the front, but of course that means you have to try and catch all of the oil in the filter, too.
Idahoktm
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I didn't have air suspension or ORG, so I can't comment on those making the oil change more difficult. Getting the Oil Udder to squeeze past the steering rack with a filter full of oil was tricky, but it works.
Dewey
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I have ORG. Don’t see how A/S would make that much of a difference.
Dewey
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I use a hose on the Udder to drain into my pan and after slightly dropping down a bit I pour the excess oil out of the filter with a slight tip and then remove everything together.
