Floor drain filter for oil

[42qn30]

I have a very oily engine to clean. It requires that a jack up the car to do so. I would like to do it in the garage.

Is there some kind of filter i can use to trap the oil/grease and prevent most of it from going into the French drain?

 

[woodscaper]

On a smaller scale I had a 20 hp Kohler that blew a crank seal behind the flywheel, made a bit of a mess. I put a big tray under the engine and ran a hose from that into my parts cleaner and extended the hose from the pump on the cleaner to the brush on the end of the hose. Worked great, maybe you could do something like that with a kids pool and a pump to get the drainage back into the cleaner?

 

[mike1956]

Look up Pig Mats. They work well.

 

[wssix99]

I would definitely do a job like this in my neighbor's yard when they aren't home.

 

[Jmonnty]

Oil only mats
These will absorb oil off the water

 

[Firebrick43]

I second the Oil only mats. Sometimes when hydraulics dumped oil into the water based coolant, and the oil skimmer couldn't keep up we would put a FNG with a mop handle and oil only diapers to skim the top of the coolant tanks.

 

[Jeepster04]

I'll second, or third, whatever, the oil absorbent mats.

Funny story on those things. Many years ago, some company screwed up putting a new roof on the place I worked. It rained, water everywhere, some dudes brought a tub of those oil absorbent mats in and threw them everywhere.... They soaked up zero water, obviously, so I grabbed them all and took them home. I used them for years.

 

[42qn30]

Thanks for the suggestions. Looks like pig mats will be my filters.

 

[kbeefy]

They also make tubes of the absorbant to use like booms and surround the drain. Pig mats would probably be cheaper though.

Or... and I just thought of this... fill some ***** hose with floor dry and use them to block/filter the runoff.

 

[kbeefy]

Oh, floor dry would absorb the water also. That won't work.

 

[42qn30]

I found an oil only pig mat knock off that will be arriving tomorrow from Grainger. It claims to be hydrophobic. I'll give them a try and post the results.

 

[42qn30]

I found an oil only pig mat knock off that will be arriving tomorrow from Grainger. It claims to be hydrophobic. I'll give them a try and post the results.

Seemed to work well. Water beaded off when there was nothing on them. They still got saturated with water after the oil/water mix landed on them. I didnt see any oily residue on the concrete.

Thanks again for the oil-only mats suggestion!