Soravia

Because it involves jacking the car up like two times. There's no jacking needed to change oil nor to tilt the car.

swoope

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maybe you should read the thread to see what it does... and figure out how to do it without jacking the car..

beers

Soravia

I already changed oil on my car w/o using any jacks. There's a whole lot of cleareance, unless you have 14" wheels with low profile tires on it.
Even my 240SX with 1.5" lowering can have oil change w/o a jack.

All you need is a low profile 6 quart oil drain pan from Advance Discount Auto.

swoope

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you miss the whole point of the tread.. o well..

beers

Soravia

the whole point of thread is to completely drain the dirty oil before putting in new oil.

So all you have to do is park the car with the front driver side wheel on top of a 2" thick wooden plank.
Push the low profile drain pan under the drain plug. The little bugger is only about 4 inches tall.


Tug the plug with wrench and some strength, leverage or a rubber mullet.
Take out the drain plug and the washer, let it drain for 15 mins.
Replace the oil filter with cloth towel around it to catch dirty oil.
Put the drain plug and washer back in.
Fill up 5 quarts.
Add in another quart after driving a bit.

swoope

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yea,

i have one of those, not as clean. if you do it the way of the post it will also get most of the oil out of both oil coolers...

i have to add a bit over 6qts when i am done.. you just miss the point.

beers

MPG > HP

Don't know if this is "unnecessary" or not, but does anyone know if/how you can get a dealer (or pay anyone) to do this sort of "angle jacking" when you take your car in for an oil change?

TurboEight

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I ;m sure a indie mech. can help you do something like that for like 5-10 extra.

rled

I sure can't do it that way. You must have long arms and be of small stature. Just Kidding, .... I can't get my drain pan under the car.. Cheers

Cody Red

at least it'll be useful to newer people? hah.

i've never seen this thread, so now i'm gonna try this! woo!

swoope

iTrader: (5)

here is the deal..

the thread is what it is... if you do it this way you get a fair amount of extra oil out of the coolers..

ask a dealer to do it, i would not... they will be confused..

really it is easy to do..

the one person missed the point of the post..

btw, cody.. i had another shitty weekend in corpus..

beers

kersh4w

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nice thread. didnt know about this before, but now that its posted seems like common sense.

also, concerning doing it without jacking up the car. technically its not jacking the car up, you can drive up those 8-12" ramp things. i think i've seen a few in my basement at one point or another. right right?

:D

of course, i'd think that jacking it up, and then putting a jack stand underneath the car is safer.

Brettus

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hey cool - never knew that .....

puch96

Great procedure!! I finally got around to do this and I got out 5 and a little bit out..!! The only thing I think that I forgot the washer as I found it laying on the floor when I took the 2nd car out of the garage!
The thing is that I did two oil changes back to back and I am not certain which car it came from....
Oh well, I drove around and checked for leaks just to make sure. Next oil change I'll check for the washer, and if it's not there I"ll just add it... not big deal...

Mazurfer

Just keep an eye on both cars, you will probably develop a leak sooner or later.

chris__n

great writeup, thanks

olddragger

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na it wont leak--i havent used one in years.
OD

shaunv74

Just used the technique. I only had to put 4.5 quarts back so not as much as I'd hoped. It must be that Swoope's lying and not that I could have done anything wrong.