ahh, ok, i thought that he thought that i thought that the vibration would mess up the mounts.


but yeah, dont make any more of a mess than the car is designed to take.

just stick a coule of rags under there, or just do it slowly so it comes down in a trickle instead of an explosion of oil, lol.

 

Somebody find the link to Danno's plastic bag trick. It works pretty well as long as you get the bag position correctly.

 

https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...threadid=53635

 

I tried punching a big hole in the top with a screwdriver once. No big mess through that hole for me, but didn't help one bit once the filter was pulled. Now I use a bag and also stuff paper towels down where it usually leaks. And I bought an OEM-brand filter wrench that fit's the Mahle's for like $6 at AutoZone.

 

lol. ditto on the oil holding the car together.

on the old motor..if i sprayed all the oil off the engine with a pressure washer the car woul dleak oil furiously. but after a couple weeks it would stop. the nasty engine actually sealed all th eleaks. LOL

 

of course the easy way to fill the filter and make sure it's full is to just put oil on the seal of the filter, punch a 1" hole in the bottom of the oil filter (now facing up) and fill it through there. a simple strip of duct tape will take care of the little hole!

If you can't duck it....

 

I just stuff paper towels around the oil filter and block then turn it a few turns to release the vacuum. Give it a couple of minutes then remove it. It bleeds a little but nothing worth writing home about

 

I just changed the oil in my dad's work truck yesterday ('88 chevy cheyenne, 350ci). Let me tell you how easy it was changing that truck's oil.

First off, no jack necessary. Just get on the ground and slide under. There is enough room to easily get both your hands on the oil filter, which is oriented straight down. Choose your weapon: I don't have a filter wrench, so when my gorilla-arms didn't work, I reached for my channel-lockers. I held it so that I gripped the end of the filter down it's z-axis, and crushed two grooves into it, and thus got a nice grip to spin it. I got 1 whole drop of oil on the ground before I could get the new filter on. I think I may have gotten one of my gloves dirty, and I think some rust rubbed onto my sleeves.

 

step 4 should be a smiley face.

 

Oh, and there is virtually no grease or grit anywhere except around the leaky tranny. Just enough rust to make a 914 jealous.

 

Try this method - it worked for The Hulk!

https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...threadid=53635

 

Punching a hole doesn't work Maybe I didn't go deep enough <insert sexual inadequacy innuendo here> but I definitely broke through the metal.

The Hulk method worked great, thanks for the mention! I hadn't seen that before. Though, to minimize the oil in the bag <another sexual innuendo here>, I may use a combo of testarossa's suggestion of releasing the vacuum and letting most of the oil drain back while holding the bag to catch any spills.

Found this thread whilst searching for oil pressure threads... might have a sender going bad or grounds that need cleaning - flickering red lights on oil pressure gauge and the "!" light, while the needle reads good pressure. OTOH, my dash clock light which has never worked suddenly lit up today...

 

Hi,
I am just about to change my oil filter,
does anyone know if a mahle OC75 has the check valve?
as i dont know if this is a 944 or 928 filter

 

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evidently it works?

 

The 928 filter works on the 944 but it doesn't have the check valve. The Mahle 944 filter is OC 142. There is one easy way to tell the difference: the 944 filter is 5" long and the 928 filter is much longer (like 7-8"). And it doesn't spill as much fluid! Sexual inuendos? Where?