welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm going to be trying out this product right here I'm gonna
bring you over to the bench to show you what it's all about and I'll be putting this on my 2010
f150 and I've looked at these for the longest time never knew whether I actually needed it or whether
it's a good idea so I'm going to stall this on my truck today and you let me know if you think
it's a good idea too so let's just take a look at this first well this is it right here and you can
see it's got a an o-ring on there and all you do is you screw this into your oil pan and take the
existing oil pan plug out and this has a nice little cap that goes in the end for when you're
draining the oil and of course it's got this little lever here that you just press down swing
over and it drains oil out so you no longer have to take your drain plug in and out all the time
so I think it's a pretty nifty idea and it seems to be very well constructed so let's just take the
cap off here take a look at that and then we'll take a look at the lever action on this and how
it seems to to work well the first thing positive I have to say about this it has a metal cap and
you know I like that better than some kind of a plastic cap but if we look in here yeah you can
see that that that valve is opened and if you take a look at the spring action here as I'll get you
a little closer up here as you can see when you move it over well it's closed now and you cannot
open that if you tried you could see how it's got a positive stop here so you have to actually lift
it up bring it over to open it up and I think that's a great idea because I guess the most
obvious thing would be is you really don't want this to ever kind of open up on its own plus for
backup well they've actually provided you a cap and you know that's a bonus too and if we do take
a look raid inside there I'll open it ups to show you you could see where it's like a hex in there
as well so you really don't have to worry about using this to tighten it on you could actually
use a hex in there to tighten it up as well I guess but I'm gonna mount it on the truck I'm
just doing my old change now letting it drain out and let's put this in and see because the first
thing I thought about is how does it going to be indexed I mean of course it depends on exactly the
application of your particular vehicle but is it going to be in the pan like this like this where's
it going to end up when it's tightened and what I'm going to do is I'm going to tighten it up to
the specifications I always use on my oil drain plug to the same as on this one so let's take
a look and see how this actually is going to be clocked when it is fastened down to the oil pan
okay let's just take a look here just gonna wipe that clean and I'm gonna have to go Plan B because
I could not find a proper size to fit this so I'm just gonna have to just judge it by feel for now
for 17 and 17 foot-pounds and we'll just tighten her up and I can see I can't get on that side
okay I'll have to open the valve I guess to get in there maybe no that's not gonna work
from this side no that's not gonna work to you know this is not as easy as people can
think to attach this because really the attachment point has to actually come in
here to get on there you can't put a socket on so you have to actually go in through here
to tighten it up but I'm saying that could be a challenge for a lot of applications
so I'm going to see if I actually have a shorter wrench I could put on there
well let's just put the cap back on here and
okay well that's it right there and you can see it's not clocked in in a wrong position so you
know I can open it up like this and they will come out the only thing is that they will probably drip
all over here so I mean it's very hard to judge what the 17-foot ponds is but I will definitely
have to get the proper X bit to fit actually fit inside here to do it properly well that's it right
there well I filled it up with oil and it's not leaking at all and this is a type of fitting uh
socket that you need to actually fit in there this is 5/16 and it's just a little bit too big so I
actually had one of these which is 22 mil for my router and it seemed to tighten enough and
I think it's just going to be fine until I get the proper one and then I'll just put my torque wrench
on and just torque it right up but yeah I was kind of worried about where the position how would be
clocked and as you could see where it ended up was in a spot that just maybe well to tell you
the truth it could be dripping on that but they do allow for that because you can just get a hose
with the proper fitting on the outside where the cap is take the cap off put a short little hose
on there and then open up your valve and I may do that but the reason why I got that particular type
of oil train plug that automatically opens and closes when you want and it's spring-loaded so
yeah you have to have quite a bit of tension to lift it up and pull it off to make it actually
open up so I don't think it can open up on its own plus it's got the backup cap right and it's a nice
metal cap so these guys let me know what you think because yeah I really I really don't want to have
to you know take the oil plug in and out all the time I think that is a good idea for the money I
pay like I'm I bought it on sale for under 20 bucks and I think you know what I'll try it on
laughter we will there click let it drain click back and for me I think it's a good idea just guys
leave me a comment below if you had any experience with this product and let me know what your
long-term view is of it because of course I'll be monitoring it and take a look everyone smile
make sure it's not dripping or leaking underneath and I'll let you know in the future if I have any
negative things to say about it so thanks for joining me here today come back again if you
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