Re: '98 oil change ???'s

From: Tony Mastres (mastres@id.ucsb.edu)
Date: Wed May 13 1998 - 18:34:52 EDT


>OK, I'm getting ready to do my first oil change and I've got a couple of
>easy ones for you guys. Keep in mind, I haven't crawled under there to
>scope things out too much (I'm really lazy :-)) so these may be dumb to
>someone who has.
>
>1. What is the easiest way to get at the filter? It looks like the upper
>control arm is in the way from the bottom, but I really don't want to have
>to pop the wheel well liner out, so...what's the easy way?
>
>2. What size is the oil drain plug? It'd be nice to only take what I need
>with me.

 You diddn't mention if you've got a 4x or not. On my 97 4x4 you just go in
from the passenger side whell well and its sitting right there. From that
standpoint its very convenient however because its almost totally inverted
it retains a lot of oil and I've never been able to do a change without
dumping oil all over the place.

Tony J. Mastres
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