Dropping the oil pan

[hookliftpete]

Signature, I don't have the tooling, but there is a shop close by that might be willing to do it. Putting my hand over the oil fill tube feels like light blowby, ecm shows something around 3300 hours at this point.

No photos of sludge from last change. In fact, someone should nominate me for the 'dumb rookie of the year' award. Was taking a sample of oil for the lab and ended up losing the whole lot of it on the driveway...I had planned to change oil saturday, I've taken samples before from the drain plug without losing the whole pan full, but somehow I slipped with the plug and ran it all out....at least I had the filters and oil on hand. I'm sure there is a better way to pull a sample, not sure what that'd be though.

What bypass system is suggested? I'd be happy to put it on, but not sure what I'd be connecting the bypass filter hoses to.