Oil Filter: Service and Repair

OIL FILTER REPLACEMENT [L3]

WARNING:
- Hot engine and engine oil can cause severe burns. Turn off the engine and wait until it and the engine oil have cooled.
- A vehicle that is lifted but not securely supported on safety stands is dangerous. It can slip or fall, causing death or serious injury. Never work around or under a lifted vehicle if it is not securely supported on safety stands.
- Continuous exposure to USED engine oil has caused skin cancer in laboratory mice. Protect your skin by washing with soap and water immediately after working with engine oil.

CAUTION:
- In case you spill engine oil on the exhaust system, wipe it off completely. If you fail to wipe the spilled engine oil, it will produce fumes because of the heat.
- 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, cup-type oil filter wrench (74 mm {2.9 in} diameter, 14 sided).

4. Remove the oil filter drain plug, and drain the engine oil.
NOTE:
1 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 the oil filter cover.

9. Apply clean oil to a new O-ring of the 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-m, 22.2-25.8 ft-lbf}
- Oil filter drain plug: 9-11 Nm {91.8-112.2 kgf-cm, 79.6-97.2 in-lbf}

12. Start the engine and confirm that there is no oil leakage.

- If there is oil leakage, repair or replace the applicable part.

13. Inspect the oil level. Testing and Inspection

14. Install the under cover.