This is the easiest car to change the oil!
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This is the easiest car to change the oil!
The 79 SA is so easy I don't even need to go under the car. My wrench reaches the oil pan bolt from the passenger side with ease! Wish my FC and FD were that easy!
Not sure if this is worth a thread, but I just really have learned to like this Gen of 7, and here is yet another nice little thing about. The exhaust note and just the feel of the car are great too.
Not sure if this is worth a thread, but I just really have learned to like this Gen of 7, and here is yet another nice little thing about. The exhaust note and just the feel of the car are great too.
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That's something I noticed after I installed my header. I had never thought of it before then, so I guess I could have done it with the reactor still in place.
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The biggest issue I have when oil change time rolls around, is finding a drain pan that will *actually* go under my car. It's that low.....
That, and the mess it makes when I take the filter off.......
The drain plug is far easier to get to with a header, though.
That, and the mess it makes when I take the filter off.......
The drain plug is far easier to get to with a header, though.
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if you don't want a mess pulling the filter, take a punch & poke a hole in the top of it, or take the fill cap off while the oil is draining. this allows it to vent, letting the oil in the filter run back into the motor, and out the drain plug. then just put some paper towels around, to catch maybe a few drips, rather than the entire contents that were in the filter.
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Even easier
Take it one step farther - skip the wrench by installing a brass oil drain valve. Easily opened by reaching down through the engine bay.
http://www.blackdragonauto.com/icatalog/rx/0054.asp
http://www.blackdragonauto.com/icatalog/rx/0054.asp
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Yeah oil changes on our cars are so easy, I did one without a flashlight on the street at midnight once.
I picked up a nice low oil pan from my local Canadian Tire, I just
- slide the pan underneath
- remove the oil cap
- remove the drain plug
- drain the oil
- wrap two shop towels around the filter and slowly remove
- lube up the new filter's seal with a bit of oil
- install the new filter
- put the drain plug back in
- fill with oil
- put the oil cap back on
- remove the pan
- pour old oil back into the container
and boom, I'm done. No need to lift the car or get any special tools. Just 4.5L of oil, a filter, a ratchet with a 19mm socket, and a pan. It's also nice to have a magnetic pickup for those rare times you drop the plug.
It actually amazes me that of all the write-ups we have here, this is the only place I've found that has a "how to change your oil" write-up. We take it for granted that everyone knows how, lol.
Jon
I picked up a nice low oil pan from my local Canadian Tire, I just
- slide the pan underneath
- remove the oil cap
- remove the drain plug
- drain the oil
- wrap two shop towels around the filter and slowly remove
- lube up the new filter's seal with a bit of oil
- install the new filter
- put the drain plug back in
- fill with oil
- put the oil cap back on
- remove the pan
- pour old oil back into the container
and boom, I'm done. No need to lift the car or get any special tools. Just 4.5L of oil, a filter, a ratchet with a 19mm socket, and a pan. It's also nice to have a magnetic pickup for those rare times you drop the plug.
It actually amazes me that of all the write-ups we have here, this is the only place I've found that has a "how to change your oil" write-up. We take it for granted that everyone knows how, lol.
Jon
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Someone mentioned the spark plugs... the local Mazda dealership tried to charge me 2hrs labour for a compression test...
First they told me it was because they had to hook the machine to my car's computer. It's an FB, it doesn't have one.
Then they told me it's because they had to put the car on a hoist to do it. Nope, spark plugs are reachable without a hoist
THEN they told me "well it's got the same block as the rx8, so it's going to take the same amount of time!" - wrong again, I've got a carb'd 12a, not a FI 13b Renesis.
All of this, and in the time we were arguing the test could have been done already.
Jon
First they told me it was because they had to hook the machine to my car's computer. It's an FB, it doesn't have one.
Then they told me it's because they had to put the car on a hoist to do it. Nope, spark plugs are reachable without a hoist
THEN they told me "well it's got the same block as the rx8, so it's going to take the same amount of time!" - wrong again, I've got a carb'd 12a, not a FI 13b Renesis.
All of this, and in the time we were arguing the test could have been done already.
Jon
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