If the shroud hasn't come off your truck yet, Ed, it will soon. The
Adam Blaster lost his out at Jon's when we hit the trail. As Kyle says,
it's just held on with a few plastic "poppers" and once you get it
caught on something off-road, it'll just pull right off. Unless you do
it yourself first in the garage.
Kyle Kozubal wrote:
>
> > Question, has anyone changed their own oil on a 4.7 Dak??? Well, I
> > just did and I will NEVER do it again!! I mis-calculated with my drain
> > pan and as soon as I took the plug out, hot oil shot past my pan, down
> > my arm, then onto my garage floor. Not cool!!
> > Second, who's friggin' idea was it to put the filter where it is and
> > have that dang little trap door thing to get to it which in reality just
> > holds the oil up there that the filter drips out when you take it
> > off!!!! Next time, I'm goin' back to my lube place!! Oh, it took all 6
> > quarts of my 10-30 Mobil 1 also and right on the money on the dipstick.
>
> Ed,
> My girlfriend has a 4.7L 4WD Durango, and I change the oil in it, as well as
> do all the routine maintenance on it. The best way I found to drop the oil
> filter was to remove the entire 'trap door' shroud. I think it is just held
> in place by like 6 or so pop-in style 'screws'. This way, the job is clean
> and faster. Still nothing like the easy 3.9L oil changes on my 93 4WD Dak.
> It is a very stupid place I think to put the oil filter.
> Kyle
> 93 Dakota 4x4 V6
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