Awkward Generator Oil Pan Drain

it's funny anyway yeah i kind of wish it had a separate tank for that but in a way it's kind of nice because you have one giant one i don't know i just wish there was two but that's just me so number six on the i hate this thing list um not i hate this thing but number six on the list of things i hate on here has to do with the generator oil pan drain location and that's why we had to fire this thing up to get some air pressure so i could get the tanks filled up to operate the air actuated slide out for the generator which is something else we'll talk about later but we just kind of pull this thing here okay so when you got to change the oil on this thing you come under here and the drain plug is right there you see the potential issue i'm talking about when you drain the oil it runs right under this rod and blows everywhere it just makes a mess kind of like for no reason i feel like i don't like it it's just now i know newell obviously didn't design the generator or put the drain plug there but having that rod right under the drain is just annoying one it makes it harder to get the plug on and off and two when the oil comes out it hits the rod and then naturally kind of like flows this way and flows that way and drips in other places and you end up with oil all over this here and you gotta wipe all this off and when you're traveling a lot you change your generator oil pretty frequently because you know if you're off the grid the four or five hundred hours of runtime can accumulate pretty fast so when you're changing oil you know in a parking lot somewhere you're trying to try not to make a mess it's a little bit of an issue if you're