Hairy Eater
Banned
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2005
- Messages
- 643
- Reaction score
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- Age
- 46
- Location
- Queensland
- Members Ride
- 2000 VX Executive V6
did the first engine iol change in the VX since buying it today .... went to Autobarn, bought a filter and Shell Helex Ultra oil .... got the sump bung undone okay ( it wasnt very tight ) ... couldnt find my filter wrench but after a bit of grunting I got it undone by hand ... put the bung in again, then on with the new filter .... now got my favourite funnel ( this has to be the first car that I've ownwed that has a decent hole in the tappet cover for adding oil ).... put in just over half of the 5 liter bottle ... let it settle for a few minutes then checked the dip-stick... it was about halfway .... now my STUPID memory tells me that V6 Commie takes 5 liters with filter so I put in the whole 5 liters .... hmmmm dip-stick now about 1 inch over full .... I look up my handbook... wrong WRONG wrong .... book says "about 4.8 liters with filter " ... geeezzzz ... so I gets this bright idea that I'll drain out some oil by using 1\4 inch plastic tube that I have got ... not good, tube only goes down the dip-stick pipe about 6 inches then stops ... AHAA ... I got some 1\8 inch tube and it goes all the way in ... now I try to syphon some oil back into the oil bottle... well after about 3 or 4 hours, drop by drop I finally syphon out enough oil to drop the level back to the full mark ....