You're My Boy, Blue

[ScottyB]

changed the oil, mostly just due to not knowing what's in there now and wanting to be able to beat on it with confidence.

looking at the procedure....i have to take a wheel off? splashguard off? the filter is where?


this is, hands down, the worst oil filter location i've ever seen. coming from a subaru, which is probably the easiest car on the planet to change the oil on (you can literally do it one-handed) this was a crappy surprise. thank goodness the oil change intervals on this things are like 10k miles. i don't want to do this more than once a year.

so i get it in the air and take all the crap off, and because the filter mount is directly over the axle boot i got a Form-A-Funnel to send the filter oil drippings out over the control arm. the funnel worked awesome. that was the only awesome part.


red circle is the filter mount. unscrewing the filter off isn't so bad once you contort your arm up and over the steering rack, but snaking it out of the opening over the driveshaft was a trick, it barely fits. i had pre-filled a new filter beforehand to go on, and guess what? yeah, dumped it all out, over everything, trying to get it in the opening and resorting to turning it sideways. this covered the sides in oil. so now i can't tighten the filter on because my gloves are slipping all over the filter :lol: AAUUGH


whatever, its on there now, next time i do this i'll be good and beered up beforehand so i can laugh at myself instead of cursing