Oil change made easy
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Oil change made easy
I did the oill changes in my SRT's yesterday and enjoyed doing them both. I bought a 6 1/4 gallon General Hydraulics oil extractor and hooked it up to my compressor. After warming the engine for about 7 minutes I inserted the suction tube down the dipstick tube and opened the valve. It took about 5 minutes to suck out all the oil. Popped in the new Mann filter (from German Filters, 4 pack for $58) and O-rings, added the 8 1/2 quarts of Mobil 1 and done in 20 mins each. I wish the filer was on the top of all my vehicles! What a piece of cake this makes it.
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Re: Oil change made easy
Thats a pretty cool gadget. I just bought my XF a couple weeks ago and I bought the stuff to do an oil change today. I bought a Fran oil filter? Is that OK. The guy told me Fran makes most of the OEM filters for the car companies and he said Fran makes as good of a filter as there is so I bought it for $11.00 but I didn't put it in yet. Please let me know if is ok to use a Fran Filter please thanks. You seem to know a lot about oil changes. Thanks again
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Re: Oil change made easy
Originally Posted by TruRaja
so how much is the extractor?
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Re: Oil change made easy
Originally Posted by Firstpoet
Since the extractor has a samller capacity resorvoir than how much oil is in the car, what did you do 3/4's of the way through? Thinking of doing this but am not real 'mechanical' - thanks -
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Re: Oil change made easy
This is the topsiderhttp://www.northerntool.com/webapp/w..._390306_390306 and here's a cheaper copy of one probably the samething though.http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=45403
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I couldnt find the topsider when I was looking and I also liked the idea of the 6 1/4 gallon tank. I can use it for two oil changes or for emptying out my lath gear box also. The lath is a real pain to do by hand. This should work great on the 7.3L diesel too. Another 8 qts to suck up.
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is there somewhere you can bring the old oil to dispose of it properly? i never do my own oil changes but after bringing in my crossfire for its first oil change and being charged 120$ for it i think ill start doing it myself! especially if its only 20 mins as opposed to over 2 hours at the dealership..