Oil Change on Adventurer P30 Chevy 454 (Funnel help!)

[oneydee]

Changing the oil on our new (to us) 1994 Adventurer 32RQ with a Chevy 454 engine. The fill tube is back inside the engine bay far enough and there is such a small opening with the hood down that I am having fits pouring oil in w/o getting it all over the front grill and/or other engine parts. I have a pretty good assortment of funnels already including two flexible spout models and a long, clear vinyl model but NONE of them are working too well. Somebody have a link to a long and/or flexible funnel that works for this application?

[Hurricane993]

Can you pull the motor cover off and put the oil in through the valve cover like normal? If not maybe a low out put pump and pump it it. I have to pump the oil out of the dip stick holder on my boat. Good luck

[George Schweikle]

If your '94 GM chassis is like my '99, the metal oil filler neck is connected to a rubber hose that attaches to the valve cover. You can disconnect and move the metal filler forward about 3 inches, still using the original mounting clamp, then buy a longer length of oil resistant hose and re-connect everything. Of course, the angle of the filler neck is the same, but it's much easier to add oil. I also remember seeing, somewhere, plastic extensions that attach to the filler neck and use the original filler cap.

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Originally Posted by oneydee Changing the oil on our new (to us) 1994 Adventurer 32RQ with a Chevy 454 engine. The fill tube is back inside the engine bay far enough and there is such a small opening with the hood down that I am having fits pouring oil in w/o getting it all over the front grill and/or other engine parts. I have a pretty good assortment of funnels already including two flexible spout models and a long, clear vinyl model but NONE of them are working too well. Somebody have a link to a long and/or flexible funnel that works for this application?

[oneydee]

Both good options, fellas. Thanks for the ideas.