Alternative to the Fumoto oil drain valve...

[Andrew Duane USG]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Todd Young say:
>
> Note on the web site that if you are worried about the valve opening if
> it should be hit by offroading, you can use a hose clamp to hold the
> lever in place.
> The gentleman I ordered mine from stated that they use them on their 4x4
> trucks on the oil pan and transfer case, and have NEVER used the hose
> clamp "safety" and never had one open up.

I've run Fumotos for over a quarter million miles. And I can't
even CONCEIVE of something that could "accidentally" open the valve.
Maybe if you hit something really big, it mught rip the whole thing
out of the oil pan, but that would be bad no matter what was there.

You have to simultaneously move the lever in two different planes,
against a very stiff spring, and around a small lip that clips it
in place. Sometimes I even cursed it for being so hard to open :-)

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