OK, I drained the sump on my new-to-me TR8 and found it was a nasty mixture
of old oil, sludge, and really old fuel. Add to that a little solvent I
used to clean the pan and you've got a mixture only a chemist could love.
The guy at the parts store said he can't take it if it's got anything other
than "motor oil" in it. (I tried the old gasoline-came-from-oil routine, to
no avail.) So, what methods can you recommend for disposing of this
ecological nightmare? Simple and cheap are prefered, as long as it doesn't
incure any jail time. Enquiring minds want to know....
Here's two methods:
1. My local landfill has a periodic "hazardous waste disposal day" when you can bring
them anything for disposal. They sort it out and dispose of it appropriately. I usually have
old cans of paint, a few jugs of fluid as you describe above, and other nasty things.
2. Here's a less ideal method but one I used when I lived in a very rural area with no
landfill - in fact, it's a method both my dad and granddad used on the farm to dispose
of awful stuff. Fill a metal 5-gallon bucket with sand. Pour the nasty stuff into the sand.
Light it up with a match. If the nasty stuff is not flammable, add some kerosene to help
it along. The sand acts as a wick, burning slowly without a flash or explosion. Yes, this
is not a great thing ecologically - you are essentially trading air pollution for ground water
pollution since it usually gives off a cloud of black smoke. In my case it was the lesser
of two evils. YMMV and all that.
Ken Strayhorn '72 MKIV Hillsborough NC
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