Oil changes

[745 turbogreasel]

isnt 5 quarts enough?
my buddies neon SRT4 only holds 4 quarts with a full filter.. and its a 2.4L turbo engine..
our diesels hold almost 6 quarts..

My D24 holds 7.5 if I don't use the big filter. 3.1 Qt/L
MBZ is pretty close to that as well.
7.3 Powerstroke has 14qts, or 1.9Qt/L

[ORCoaster]

didnt care how much oil it burned, it made it from the california border, to the washington border

Now I know why hwy 101 doesn't need all that much paving between Brookings and North Bend.  All them dripping oil pans coming up from the border.  Once they make it to NB they are out of oil.  I sure hope you rebuilt that leaking bucket of bolts.

Perhaps you did this trip before the price of petrol jumped to 4 bucks a gallon along the coast.  Be nice if the price would come down for the holiday.  Could use with some tourists in town.

later

[R.O.R-2.0]

didnt care how much oil it burned, it made it from the california border, to the washington border

Now I know why hwy 101 doesn't need all that much paving between Brookings and North Bend.  All them dripping oil pans coming up from the border.  Once they make it to NB they are out of oil.  I sure hope you rebuilt that leaking bucket of bolts.

Perhaps you did this trip before the price of petrol jumped to 4 bucks a gallon along the coast.  Be nice if the price would come down for the holiday.  Could use with some tourists in town.

later

i NEVER drive 101 for longer than like 40 miles at a time.. im talking I-5.. 70 mph, and long LONG hills.. in an audi 5k TD with exhaust leaks so bad the wastegate didnt work the whole trip home.. it would make like 6-7 psi @ wot.. some of those hills, i was going like 50 at the top.. from a run of 80 mph at the bottom. one of the battery wires shorted out, burned the terminal right off the wire. stranded 100 miles from nowhere, thank god i had vice grips, i stuck the end of the wire on the battery post, and vice gripped it on there. then not even 50 miles down the road, the rear driver tire EXPLODES. like a good enough explosion i thought the engine fell out of the car or something, oil light and coolant lights were going off, along with their respective alarms.. from a damn tire.. that car fought me the whole way home. hell, it fought me till i actually did some work to it..

no, i never re-built that engine, its still sitting in the car right now. if i ever come across the funds to rebuild it, im going to put the 5 cylinder in my 88 Toyota 4runner..

damn, its amazing the purposes of vice grips! i drive my black rabbit around for thousands of miles with vice grips clamped on the stub left that used to be the shifter.. never even locked that car, just took the keys, and the vice grips.. lol. you would have to be DAMN DETERMINED to steal a car with no shifter..

[blackbird82]

my trick I learned from dumpin oil on Semi's was to get a screwdriver you never use, and sharpen it into a punch,
and then on the downward edge pop the filter, let it drain same as the block (same time)

i do that on my MK3 1.9 TD

haven't made a mess yet, hell after 10 years if I get oil on my hands its a piss off.

Pete
John Deere

[8v-of-fury]

That is GENIUS.

I will use it next time I change my oil! When I get back to Ontario from Nova Scotia!

[R.O.R-2.0]

my trick I learned from dumpin oil on Semi's was to get a screwdriver you never use, and sharpen it into a punch,
and then on the downward edge pop the filter, let it drain same as the block (same time)

i do that on my MK3 1.9 TD

haven't made a mess yet, hell after 10 years if I get oil on my hands its a piss off.

Pete
John Deere

on ALL my cars, if you drain the oil, then when the oil is drained, the filter has drained enough that you can take it off without making a mess. you have to spin it off quick tho, to keep oil from running down the side of the filter..

never had to punch a filter, and never made a mess. only mess comes from the oil cooler, and thats only if i didnt let the filter sit long enough and drain back into the engine.

punching a hole in the filter isnt a bad idea, ive just never found it necessary.

im with pete, i hate getting oil on my hands. a coulpe drips from taking the drain plug out is one thing, but it pisses me off when it runs up to my elbows..

[maxfax]

Let it run out on the floor and roll in it..  Then you won;t care much about oily fingers.. 

[blackbird82]

ROR, if a filter lets it drain back that means its a bad filter!
An oil filter like these should hold oil above it in the lines, with its drain back valve
I get 3 times as much as the filter will hold when I pop mine.
And thats after the engines drained
And I only use John Deere filters, there are very good and I get them for one dollar at work
Beat That.
Oh if you have access to a John Deere dealer.
the part number is TY9425E

[R.O.R-2.0]

let me re-word that..

the flange has drained enough that there wont be oil flowing down the side of the filter as soon as you break the seal..

the oil heater and oil filter flange DO drain back into the engine.. thats what i was talking about. when i take the oil filter off, its still full, right up to the anti-drain back valve.. just the oil heater and filter flange have less oil in them to run down the back of the filter, and front of the block..

does that make more sense?

[blackbird82]

Hmm, then somethins gotta be different, if I let my car sit for 25 min after pullin plug, even then unscrewin my filter gets me a flow of oil down the sides and I crack it loose.

Oh and I do recommend the JD filter. Excellent quality, we were cuttin them open and others at school.
Steel caged!

[R.O.R-2.0]

Hmm, then somethins gotta be different, if I let my car sit for 25 min after pullin plug, even then unscrewin my filter gets me a flow of oil down the sides and I crack it loose.

Oh and I do recommend the JD filter. Excellent quality, we were cuttin them open and others at school.
Steel caged!

thats gonna be one upgrade i will probably never run.. i can get napa gold filters (WIX) for about $5/ea, and thats good enough for me. guarantee theres no way the JD filter would be even close to that cheap..

[blackbird82]

yeah, to the public they are pricey.

I work for John Deere,

so I get them for 1 dollar

5 dollar filter? you gettin hosed man! 
haha

hey I am gonna post a pic of the ultimate turbo! for 4 cylinders!

Can you say water cooled VGT actuator!!

coming soon

hint! (its green)

[R.O.R-2.0]

yeah, to the public they are pricey.

I work for John Deere,

so I get them for 1 dollar

5 dollar filter? you gettin hosed man! 
haha

hey I am gonna post a pic of the ultimate turbo! for 4 cylinders!

Can you say water cooled VGT actuator!!

coming soon

hint! (its green)

dude, $5 is the cheapest i can get a filter here.. if i go to the parts store close to my house, its $13.. for an 1191 WIX..

[blackbird82]

Thats cool man. I know for a while I was able to get bulk from Oil Mart for my buddies 89 F-450 at 3 dollars a filter. those were WIX as well.

Oil Mart is a sweet lube store and they are building a big one on the road to the city from my town.

Score!

[DieselBalz]

I was so impressed with their Diesel Purge I splurged on the oil and went with some of this

http://www.liqui-moly.de/liquimoly/produktdb.nsf/id/en_1360.html?Opendocument&land=DE&voilalang=e&voiladb=web.nsf

I had bought a 3 pack of Mann filters when I first got the car so I put a fresh one of those in. 5000 miles on Rotella. No issues. I only have a couple hundred miles on it but Ill see if there is a difference in fuel economy.

Oh wait, I also just put on some fresh 185/70's and got a much needed alignment, so that test is null. 

Rides so much nicer! Has me totally rethinking lowering it! Lower RPM's, and they really soak up the bumps.