Oil Filter: Service and Repair

OIL FILTER REPLACEMENT

Warning
- Continuous exposure with USED engine oil has caused skin cancer in laboratory mice. Protect your skin by washing with soap and water immediately after this work.
- Hot engines and engine oil can cause severe burns. Turn off the engine and wait until it and the engine oil have cooled.

Caution
- To avoid damage to the oil filter, use only specified oil filter.





1. Remove the under cover.
2. Loosen the oil filter drain plug. (Do not remove.)
3. Loosen the filter cover for 1 turn using a commercially available, cap-type oil filter wrench (diameter- 74 mm (2.9 inches)).
4. Remove the oil filter drain plug, and drain the engine oil.

Note
- Oil could be easily drained when the air is in the filter.

5. Loosen the oil filter cover for another 1 turn.





6. Remove the oil filter cover and the oil filter.
7. Use a clean rag to wipe off the mounting surface on the oil filter adapter and the oil filter cover.
8. Apply clean oil to a new O-ring of a new oil filter.
9. Apply clean oil to a new oil filter drain plug.
10. Install the oil filter, oil filter drain plug, and oil filter cover.
11. Tighten the oil filter cover and the oil filter drain plug.
Tightening torque
Oil filter cover: 30 - 35 Nm (3.1 - 3.5 kgf-cm, 22.2 - 25.8 ft. lbs.)
Oil filter drain plug: 9 - 10 Nm (91.8 - 101.9 kgf-cm, 79.6 - 88.4 inch lbs.)
12. Remove dipstick and verify that the oil level is between the MIN and MAX marks on the dipstick.
- If the oil is below the MIN mark, add oil.
13. Start the engine and inspect for oil leakage.
- If the oil leaks, specify the faulty part and repair or replace it.
14. Inspect the oil level.
- If necessary, add oil.
15. Install the under cover.