Oil in your water is very bad for your engine. Oil in water can also make your car smoke, which may lead to problems with local authorities for emissions violations. Usually, your oil filter will collect any water that may end up in your system, but this water can also escape back into the system. You need to get the water out of the filter for good. It is easy to remove water from an oil filter with a little creative thinking; there are two methods for achieving the desired results.
Instructions
First Method
1. Place a large glob of modeling clay onto the middle of a dinner plate.
2. Press the oil filter right side up into the modeling clay.
3. Place the filter/plate combination in a very sunny spot on your deck or porch on a hot day. Make sure the filter is placed up high where children and animals cannot reach it, as motor oil is poisonous.
4. Leave the filter out for the entire day to allow the water to evaporate. Keep moving it if you have to so that it stays in the hottest spot you can find.
Second Method
5. Place a good amount of kitty litter into the bottom of a plastic disposable food storage container large enough to hold the filter and have plenty of room left over.
6. Place a thin layer of paper towels over the kitty litter.
7. Place the filter inside the container on its side.
8. Using the modeling clay, build a wall around the open end of the filter.
9. Cover the filter with the rice, but be careful to not let the rice get near or into the opening of the filter. This is the reason for the play dough wall--to keep the rice out.
10. Place the lid tightly onto the container.
11. Heat up the outside of the container using a hair dryer, being careful not to let the heat get high enough on any spot to melt the plastic. Keep heating the container for about a half an hour.
12. Set the whole thing into a sunny sport on your deck or porch for a couple of hours in the middle of the day. You want the hottest sun you can get onto this container. Keep the lid closed at all times.
13. Remove the filter from the container while the container is still hot.
14. Place the lid back on the container and tape it closed with duct tape. Dispose of the whole thing in your trash.
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