Our Tacomas have a filter that sticks straight up, but there's a "skirt"
around the base with a hole that feeds a tube that comes out down by the
oil pan. When you unscrew the filter (which is a piece of cake because
it's right there front and center), you just loosen it enough for all
the oil to drain down the tube (which you've placed an oil pan under).
When it's done, remove the rest of the way, wipe, lube, screw on the new
one.
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bp
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On 11/29/2014 4:52 PM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote:
So on the Subaru engine the oil filter sticks straight up. Does that
make it incredibly easy to change or incredibly messy?
*From:* Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, November 29, 2014 5:48 PM
*To:* af <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT I must be bored today
About the only place I'll have change the oil anymore is when I take
the car in for the major service interval at the dealer. They carry
the oil I use and I figure a genuine Subaru oil filter isn't any worse
than the M1-108's I use normally.
Other than that, it gets changed at home anymore. I've discovered that
throwing a pan under the car and pulling the oil/plug filter takes so
little time that it's actually faster for me to do it. I generally
will do it before a trip out of town and will pull the oil filter/plug
and then clean/vaccum the car out while the oil is draining. Once
I'm done vaccumming, I put everything back together and refill the car
with an appropriate amount of oil. Takes me less time than waiting at
an instant lube place, and then I know what oil/filter is actually
in/on the engine.
Sadly, I haven't found anything fun drawn on my car's oil filter when
it comes from the dealer.
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Rory Conaway via Af <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We bring Mobil 1 oil filters in when we have the local oil change
place change the oil. Last oil change, neither my car or the work
van had them on their when I looked about 3000 miles after the
change. After some heated discussions concerning the theft of my
oil filters and shenanigans that might require a review of whether
they are really using Mobil1 1 oil, they changed both vehicles
while I watched them open new bottles of oil in front of me.
Fortunately this was the first time I used them, and the last time.
Rory
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown via Af
*Sent:* Saturday, November 29, 2014 12:27 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT I must be bored today
A local guy went out to change his oil today. Found a penis drawn
on his oil filter. That filter had been installed by Jiffy Lube.
Same company that billed us for an oil change a few years ago
(fleet account) for a car that my business partner’s step daughter
crashed and totaled a year before.
