Blitz Oil Drain Catch Pan Cap Breakage

[chevy.stroker]

Have you over tightened the cap on your Biltz 15 quart oil drain and had it crack?

http://www.blitzusa.com/products/oil/Oil Drains and Pans/podp15od.htm

At less than 8 dollars a pan at Walmart, and with Blitz filing chapter 11 and being picked up by F3 brands trying to purchase a new cap that will likely have the same issue seemed like to much work. However, with me being a tightwad disposing of a perfectly good tool over a split cap did not sit well.

My solution was to utilize a cap from a Walmart gallon Super Tech ATF container. I won't say it is perfect since if you over fill it then it will drip, but it is better than a cracked cap.

Anyone else found substitute caps?

 

[onemore]

I have another company's oil drain pain from 1991? The cap stripped right after I got it, I used a cap form a jug of anti-freeze and a little teflon tape and 20 plus years later still works, but annoys me still the same.

 

[ImportTuner]

I have that same Blitz oil drain catch pan. If you contact Blitz, they will send you a replacement for free. I got a replacement but am currently using a One-A-Day vitamin cap.

 

[Squankum]

Similar issue years ago on what I think is a Blitz oil pan. Screw cap lid from Pepsi bottle of some kind (2.0 liter? 1 liter? glass bottle?) did the trick.

 

[Zrexxer]

Sheesh, I thought it was just mine. Been using that drippy cracked cap 10 years. Oh and the drain plug in the center cracked almost immediately too, but it's not as much of a bother.

 

[thesilverone]

I e-mailed Blitz and 2 weeks later received 2 new caps for free

 

[Greatbear]

I used a cap from a container of windshield washer solvent on mine.

 

[N-10Z]

Plastic cap from glass jug handled "Jack Daniels" bottle. Cut a piece of leather to fit inside cap for a gasket. Just don't let the oil change guy handle the cap again!

 

[Super Sport]

Never cracked mine, but it always seems to leak. This is the second container I'm on and they both have been this way.

 

[LostHSV]

I've had mine a few years and almost immediately had to replace the cap. I used a coolant bottle cap with no problem. As many have noted on other threads, the center plug is worthless, I tossed mine after the first usage.

 

[MAD]

I have a different model drain pan also made by Blitz. The guy at the parts store gave it to me because the caps were missing on all of the ones they had left. Mine has a cap from a jug of coolant on it now, but I had a Tropicana OJ cap on it for 7-8 years before that.

 

[CJKaz]

Same pan, the small vent cap's retaining strap broke. Was afraid that I'd lose it so I didn't flip it open. Found out the hard way that it's as important to vent while filling up as when dumping the pan. Drained my Audi (nine qts, large drain plug) turned away for a moment & it quickly overflowed at least a gallon of oil. Reached around the stream draining from the engine & flipped off the vent cap. Pan took the remainder, but the cleanup took much longer than the oil change. Lesson learned.

 

[cderalow]

heh.

and here i was thinking I was abusing mine. I have the same 15qt and a smaller 5qt one, both have had the caps break. I however found that the top off a 1qt oil container fits pretty well.

 

[SpiderGearsMan]

upgrade to perkins or graymills