I don't know why all car makers can't design their engines to have the oil filter bottom mounted. #1. Bottom mounted oil filters are not as messy doing oil changes. #2. With a bottom mounted oil filter, there's no lag time for oil pressure to build up on a cold start while the filter is filling up.
I don't know why all car makers can't design their engines to have the oil filter bottom mounted. #1
Because they don't want their vehicles to be user serviceable. They want to force the owner to take the car to an authorised dealer for the most basic service. I'm looking at you, European car industry.
Seriously, to change the oil filter on a Peugeot 301 requires a power drill, two spotters, seven screwdrivers, three meters of copper wiring, two jugglers and a trained puppeteer. You have to remove 5 components just to reach the oil filter.
It's Japanese or nothing for me. And Japanese up to 2008. After that year, they started to go downhill too.
Okay....rant over.
Because they don't want their vehicles to be user serviceable. They want to force the owner to take
A mess here... Rain thunderstorms, lost a well pump to lightning.. Had to put my new truck in the shop only to have the transmission go out while driving it to be repaired.. had to have it towed.. Thank god it was covered under warranty. My riding mower blew out a deck belt.. Still awaiting for the part to fix it.. meanwhile grass is so tall I can walk naked in it and you never see me from the street.
Had to change oil in my second truck, only to discover AFTER I dropped the oil that I had the wrong filter... so I had to get my dad to ride my oil covered butt to the store to exchange it.. It took 5 hours to do a 30 minute otherwise oil change.. So yeah its been a real "fun" summer.
A mess here... Rain thunderstorms, lost a well pump to lightning.. Had to put my new truck in the
It's getting time to change the oil in my Nissan Sentra. However...I have the valve body off of the transmission right now. Reverse had gone out, and being there were no signs of burnt fluid, that leaves the likely culprit being a control solenoid. The valve body has to be dropped from the transmission to get the old solenoids off. I thought ahead and made an 8 x 10 photo of the bottom of the valve body to use as a pattern. Then on the photo, I punched 1/4 inch holes where each bolt is shown. As I unbolted the valve body, I inserted the bolts through the photo to corrospond where they actually go in the valve body. That way, the bolts don't get mixed up. There are 32 bolts of different lengths under the valve body. I'm just thankful it's not like the cars of 50 and 60 years ago, where a crap load of tiny springs and check balls went flying all over the place when you removed the valve body. I guess the solenoids do the same job those tiny springs and balls did years ago.
All five solenoids come hard wired together as a set. I got the new solenoids at NAPA, and I got them assembled onto the valve body earlier this afternoon. I also replaced the filter screen. The screen wasn't all that bad, but as long as I have the valve body out, I figured might as well have a clean filter screen. And to replace the filter screen later, the valve body would have to come out again, because one of the filter screen bolts has a nut above the valve body. All I have to do now is reinstall the valve body to the transmission, reinstall the pan, and fill new fluid in. I didn't do that today because a thunderstorm was on the way, and I don't want to have the pan off with dust and rain blowing around near an open transmission.
By the way, I can relate to the vixen doing the oil change.
It's getting time to change the oil in my Nissan Sentra. However...I have the valve body off of the
She's really cute. I was wondering what she needed pliers and a screwdriver for doing an oil change. I can see the wrench. That's needed to remove and reinstall the drain plug.
The oil filter must be a Fram... presuming from the orange colour. Moyo Mongoose always uses K&N brand oil filter.
She's really cute. I was wondering what she needed pliers and a screwdriver for doing an oil chang