They say snug because people were stripping out their pans threads as a guess. :-)

No offense taken, have you seen hold old this forum is? It went online in the early 2000's. I am grateful it works at all. (lots of times it goes offline)

Kinda confused on the bookmarking need. The search thread is a sticky on this forum. So Its extremely easy to locate it that way. As that is what I do when looking for something on this forum.

I was just teasing as when someone asking you what it was and you said google it... with the irony of that comment.

Plus I have no idea what having ADHD has to do with anything either. But I do agree it would be great if it was built into the forum. :-)

I look at it as it is what it is. I try not to get too all wound up about things.
Granted, we are all human and make mistakes.. :-)

It means I have a short attention span and forget about things fairly easily because my mind wanders to some completely random useless topic in seconds flat >< I'll try to remember for next time that it's that easy to find though.

And sorry Bad Luck about being so curt with you. I would blame the fact that I had just woken up but I should still be more courteous, mea culpa.

Anyways I did get it on and so far no leaks. I am quite happy with the quality of the machining on this product though. We will see how easy it makes future oil changes which I'm honestly not really sure about after reinstalling the RCI skid. Looks like I will have to reach up through the opening in my LCAs in order to attach the drain piece which could be a little awkward, only time will tell I suppose.

No need to be scared of Fumotos, just sayin.

Yeah to be fair I haven't heard of any disasters with them if you use that retainer clip. That said this design makes more sense IMO for my use case. Instead of trying to slip a hose on reaching around my skid and fiddling with the clip and then the lever, I just slip up there and thread the drain piece on and boom.

I know what it means. It's all good. You find a way to master that in time. Most people minds wander.

They would have been Said I had that as a young kid. When I you kept the caffeine and sugar away from me I was fine.





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All good - whatever works. I see that ValvoMax doesn't make a m10-1.5 valve either. I want to be a maniac and valve my tranny pan so my skids never have to come off (wicked heavy 4XI brand).

Lol I was kind of wondering if they had the size for my manual drain bolt today as I also did a fluid change on my r150f today. The interval is way longer than you guys that do partial drain and fills on the auto trans though so I don't think it makes sense, assuming they have the size needed.

I didn't respond gracefully either. Thank you for saying that.

We all have good days and bad days.

I am curious how these valves hold up long term.

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I just drop the back of my trans skid (Shrockworks) and use a form-a-funnel to direct it to a pan. No need to fully remove it.

A Fumoto valve with a nipple and hose is on my oil pan. The hose stays there full time, hanging 1/2" or so below the skid. At oil change time, I use a pick to flip the valve and it goes right in the pan, no mess. Oil filters use a form-a-funnel again to keep it from dripping down the block onto the skids/diff.

I have used a Fumoto valve on basically all my vehicles, including lowered ones with 4" clearance to the ground - before they came out with the little clip. There's no way that thing is getting flipped accidentally, and a stainless ball in a teflon seat isn't leaking with zero pressure behind it.

-Charlie

How on earth did you use a formafunnel on the 5vz oil filter? I bought one hoping that was going to make things less messy but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how I was supposed to use it in this application....

Run up from the a-arm to the filter. Drain pan sits below the a-arm. Unscrew filter from wheel well and pull it out there as well.

-Charlie

I'm starting to wonder if I made a mistake with buying this thing. Was really looking at it just a second ago and I can't seem to figure out a way to reach around my RCI skid to get the drain attachment on there. I'm blocked by a cross-member in the back, the CVs on each side (also thinking those are going to be harder to change with skids). I might be able to reach in from the side front and under the cross-member that the diff drop is attached to but it's going to be very tight and totally blind lol.

It's a pain reaching in above my Savage skid plates to fit the drain hose on my Fumoto and then flip the lever.

But it's less of a pain than taking the skid off to change the oil every 5K miles.