Engine Oil Accessibility
Contrary to my expectations, loosening the filter was a royal PITA. There's too little room between the radiator fan cover and the filter to work. Ideally, I would have used a 3/8" drive articulated extension no longer than an inch inserted to the filter tool and the wrench, but lacking that I ended up using a long breaker bar to loosen it from above.
The so called "oil filter cover" below the filter is not tilted enough to prevent the oil from running over the bottom and get to the starter. At the end I cleaned the oily mess spraying brake cleaner.
Can anyone give some tip to make my life easier the next oil change?
Last edited by R01k; 11-28-2014 at 06:55 PM.
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage ES 1.2 automatic: 37.6 mpg (US) ... 16.0 km/L ... 6.3 L/100 km ... 45.2 mpg (Imp)