Hello all,
I just noticed on my Sport Premium there is a suspicious hole on the inner bottom side of the life gate...almost as if a rubber drain plug should be. See attached photo. It's in the very center just above a large plug. I'm wondering why it isn't plugged & what stops bugs/insects &...
I think 10k oil changes can be legitimate but ONLY with the best of the best oils AND when the vehicle is being operated ONLY under ideal or “normal” driving conditions (which a vast majority of vehicles don't operate within). Would I personally try it? A resounding hell no.
Thanks for enlightening me. So contrary to what has been said about not using oil filter wrenches to torque down oil filters it seems that the manufacturer of Toyota oil filters (Denso) instructs the use of the "SST" to install the oil filter without a torque spec & no more than 3/4 of a turn...
You may be right. Making gasket contact then snugging it up 3/4 of a turn is likely very sufficient & without the need for a measured torque spec.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to engineer the oil filter itself or the stem that it screws onto with a physical stopping point of some sort to let the...
This is a good point made. I've seen it in the instructions for most (but not all) oil filter wrenches to only use them for removing oil filters.
But what about the “end cap” style wrenches that sit on the end of the oil filter can without much play in it?
Couldn't that style be used to torque...
I'm pretty anal retentive about doing things exactly as specified unless something significant causes me to stray from following specifications & established instructions. I still need to contact a service advisor about the oil filter torque spec but I have to assume that a torque spec is there...
How do you know that everything about that engine, the supporting components & the software programming is EXACTLY the same from country to country. The same parts numbers are not enough proof that it's the same exact engine & such.
Hello all,
I know this is going to probably lead to many people saying that torquing an oil filter to spec is unnecessary but indulge me please.
I've recently seen it stated from an unofficial source that the torque spec for the oil filter is 16 FTLB & the drian plug bolt is 30 FTLB. I've...
Just because you haven't seen it does not
Just because you've not ever seen an engine fail because of thicker oil doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. Just sayin'.
If you did ever see it how many engines would you have to see fail with thicker oil for you to believe that the cause is that...
💯 Questioning things is good to do but making “emotional” statements based on anecdotal evidence at best is spreading false information & is the birth of conspiracy theories. I think that people have to eventually accept that automotive engineering, machining & technology evolves & advances...