Do you use Mounted Dripping Oil Catch Pans?

P.S. said:
What about those of us with OCD? If there's drips of oil on the floor, I can't go to sleep until they're wiped up. Meanwhile, the household CEO is fast asleep.
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OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) has been renamed. It's now CDO. Same symptoms but now the words are in order...
 
A guy once showed a unique drip control system. He had a tuna can mounted with bunjee cords under the flywheel housing. When parked the can was snug upright and catching drips. At speeds over 30 MPH, the windage caused the can to tilt downward, spilling the collected oil on the roadway.
 
P.S. said:
I don't know why it's considered a "disorder" anyway. How can the need to have all your things in their proper place and clean, ready to go, be a disorder?

When finished using a tool, I clean it, inspect it, and put it away. Then, the next time the tool is needed, I instantly know where it is and that it is clean, operational, and ready for use. How is that a "disorder"??

It makes sense to have all your canned goods with their labels facing forward, otherwise, you have to constantly manipulate things in the cabinet to see what they are.

I think everyone without OCD should be labeled as a victim of random clutter disorder.
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I think you have something different than obsessive compulsive disorder. Yours may have been caused by over the top potty training when you were a small child. The slang term is "anal". :D:confused: Just kidding
 
When I first bought my truck, I bought a bale of these: I use them at home in the garage, but I also carry some in the truck so that when I go other places that I really don't want to "mark my spot", I can go away clean as a whistle. I also cut to size and place a couple layers in the "janitor" shown in post # 7 above.
 

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Carl is right on with the janitor and the mats in post 25. Can even cut the mats to suit and place under the steering gear if it leaks or use adhesive back femine products which don't have aggressive adhesive. Haven't found anything other than the proper seals for the front pulley as of yet. Also we use Permatex or other white thread sealer on rear pumpkin bolts, water pump and other bolts that enter the engine chambers.
 
At Cowtown one year a guy had 50 of those tin trays that was used to stack glass oil cans for sale. I bought the all. Sold half and have the rest in a stack in the garage. news paper in them and the are under each car. I hit them once in a while so they are kinda squished now.
 
PepeLoco said:
Ok, I know the saying, that dripping oil is normal. My household CEO just doesn't like the oil spots on the driveway and in the garage.

I heard one of y'all mention that you mount oil catch pans under the car to catch these drips. So I started looking at all the drips and realized I need to fabricate three to five of these. Trying to figure out how to mount them too.

Can y'all post some pics of how and where you mounted these?

How strong is the air flow and did your pans bend when driving?

What did you make the pans out of? Tin? Roof Sheet metal? Wife's pots/Pans?


Thanks,
Pepe
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We have 2 A's in our garage. Also the "boss" said you need to do something about all those drips. So she suggested going to Home Depot and buy a few feet of the rug type stuff about 3 feet wide. Think it is used for putting outside on your walkway in front of your exterior doors. Think they are called "runners".

Anyway, it does work well. It stretches the whole length of the garage under both A's and it picks up up all drips. (unless I don't park in the correct spot)
 
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At a Reno Swapmeet, along about 1968 or so, I saw a nicely restored Model A for sale.
Here is what I saw listed on a FOR SALE sheet listing all of the car's positive attrobutes:

"Rear Engine Oil leak works properly"
 
Sorry, no pictures, but a guy in our club has taken the catch pan to the next level. He rigged a tube from the bottom of it to a hand powered pump that then forces the oil through another tube from the pump outlet back into the crankcase. The hand pump is mounted on the driver's door, so he can perform this recycling maintenance while going down the road.
 
steve s said:
Sorry, no pictures, but a guy in our club has taken the catch pan to the next level. He rigged a tube from the bottom of it to a hand powered pump that then forces the oil through another tube from the pump outlet back into the crankcase. The hand pump is mounted on the driver's door, so he can perform this recycling maintenance while going down the road.
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Inventive but IMO, oil is cheap and i would not want to risk putting contaminated oil (dust and dirt from the road) into my engine for the sake of a few ounces of oil.
 
MURPHY..................you don't have an A?............you are missing out on all the JOY, FRUSTRATION, and CHALLENGES of a lifetime. Get one soon.
 
CarlG said:
Snyders (and others) sell these:

Put an end to those unsightly puddles of oil on the garage floor or the driveway! Slips over the bell housing bolts and one of the flywheel dust cover bolts. Install or remove in seconds, catches all of the oil leaking out of the rear main bearing. Powder coated black. U.S.A.
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How do you drain it?
 
Fred K-OR said:
We have 2 A's in our garage. Also the "boss" said you need to do something about all those drips. So she suggested going to Home Depot and buy a few feet of the rug type stuff about 3 feet wide. Think it is used for putting outside on your walkway in front of your exterior doors. Think they are called "runners".

Anyway, it does work well. It stretches the whole length of the garage under both A's and it picks up up all drips. (unless I don't park in the correct spot)
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This is it! It is rather economical from Office Depot. Can buy it by the foot.
 

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