My Porsche has the filter sticking straight up, but there's check valve in the filter, so most of the oil stays in it when you take it off... which is still slightly messy, but not bad.
________________________________ From: Af [[email protected]] on behalf of Bill Prince via Af [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 7:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT I must be bored today 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. -- bp <part {dash} 15 {at} SkylineBroadbandService {dot} com> 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.
