Fumoto F-101N Engine Oil Drain Valve Review

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(More customer reviews)I remember laying on my back in a frozen driveway in northern Vermont during the winter of 2003. I was under an old Ford F-150 and I was fighting like heck to get a worn, rounded drain plug loose from the pan so I could do a badly needed and much delayed oil change. I'd been out there for an hour. I was losing the battle. I was losing the feeling in my backside.
After busting my knuckles, dropping the plug into the snow, and sending about a pint of old oil down the front of my jacket before I could get the pan in place; I leaned against the truck and thought to myself that there has to be a better way. Suddenly, it hit me. I envisioned a ball valve in place of the drain plug. I imagined a little spring-loaded dial to spin it open and even little front stops and back stops to secure the dial in place.
I jumped up, heedless of my bloody knuckles or of the oil that was now running back along the underside of the sump and dripping just past my oil pan, and ran inside. I grabbed a sheet of paper and sketched out my idea. It was brilliant. It was beautiful. It was simplicity itself. 'How...,' I thought to myself, '...is it possible that no one has ever thought of this before?' I even, briefly, contemplated the money I could make if I patented my insanely brilliant idea.
Fortunately for the rest of the world (but unfortunately for me), Fumoto thought of it first...years ago...and with a better design.
The Fumoto Oil Drain Valve is a brilliant little piece of engineering. A ball valve seated inside a very rugged brass housing. A little petcock on a spring that locks closed and requires two separate manipulations to open the ball valve. It's easy for the human hand to do but virtually impossible to have occur underneath your vehicle. The oil drains in a reliable and predictable path. It doesn't get all over your hand. It doesn't miss the pan. It doesn't drip along the underside. No muss, no fuss.
I think that the biggest concern most new buyers have regarding the Fumoto is a concern that it will open or catch on something when they're driving. All I can say is that in eight years of using these things, it's never happened to me and I've never heard of it happening either...not from friends, co-workers, fellow gear-heads, or the many, many automotive forums I surf. For what it's worth, I put a Fumoto on that 1993 Ford F-150, a 1994 Ford Escort, a 1999 Chevy S-10 Blazer 4x4 (no issues for me with the Fumoto in the mud and muck), a 2006 Chevy Silverado 4x4, and my current project: a 1994 K5 Blazer 4x4 with the 6.5L Turbo Diesel engine.
In eight years of use, I've never seen any of my Fumotos fail, leak, corrode, freeze, or do anything except work correctly. Two thumbs up and a must-have for anybody who changes their own oil.

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