Thread: My 1st oil & filters change

2.5hrs ... with a LOT of dicking around trying to remove the blasted spin on oil filter ... crush marks show it was tightened with an oil filter wrench (by a Gorilla at Trivetts according to the windscreen sticker) ... getting the new one on was pretty simple, but tightened by hand only.

How do you guys get the oil filter off ?? My wrench wouldn't fit squarley around the filter due to some bolts/nuts between the filter and block. (is there a special/smaller/thinner strapped wrench to make this a bit easier ??) Fitting it askew kind of gave a partial grip, and I was able to turn it maybe 1-2mm each movement ... then spend 5min's trying to get it to grip again ... grrrr ... I could just get my arm & hand squeezed in next to the exh' manifold and get a grip on the filter either around the filter, or under, but there was not a hope of gripping it tight enough, or having room to twist my arm to turn it ... was too bloody tight anyway !! RAVE says take of the engine acoustic cover (why ?? did that, didn't help. Couldn't take the turbo heatshield off as I don't own an 8mm socket to get to the rear bolt inside the sheild ... that all seemed like a waste of time).

Once I did get it unscrewed, I managed to lower and remove the filter upwards without loosing ANY oil !! Hows that! No plastic bag. I did the filter last, after dropping the oil, then changing the cent' filter ... and when I removed the spin-on filter it was 5/6th full ... so nothing to spill .... ??

Changed my oil to the Penrite SIN Diesel 5w-40 ... ordered a 20L of HPR Diesel5 and they got the SIN stuff in by mistake ... hmmm .... $166 for 12L, so it wasn't that much more expensive than the HPR and I guess it's worth the extra (cold starts / short runs) ... certainly made a differnce to the noise the engine makes ... has smoothed it out enourmously ... but the oil I dropped was probably a bit old & tired I suspect (Mobil 1)

Air filters a doddle, and so is the fuel filter ... my D2a doesn't have the water drain alarm conected, and the new fuel filter came with a white plastic drain plug ... I put the genuine drain back on, and the new white drain into the toolkit in the back door (just incase!). Cycled the ign' on 30sec's / off 5 secs for 5x times, and it started right up no hassles ... I'm enjoying this already !

Then we went to Barrington Tops to play in the snow. What fun !

So there you have it ... ATF fluid this weekend

Kev..

Originally Posted by gazk

I understand your frustration with the oil filter. Strap type devices don't work very well if at all, I got an offset "multi-grip" type wrench (marked as "super works"-black with red handles) from Supercheap and it works without the need to remove the engine cover or turbo shield. (see attached photo)

Gary

Dunno how you're trying to use a strap type tool mate - but some of us do it all the time without any problem. Takes me a matter of seconds to loosen the filter on mine to the point where I can then remove by hand.