wheres the oil change thread ?

[warden]

anyone know how to do a oilchange?

[My68Spit]

It's pretty simple once you get under the car.
If you have ramps that won't scrape the ground effects on the car use them...other wise you are gonna have to jack up both sides of the car and use jack stands (thats what i do).
Once you are under the car, there are about five or so snaps and two screws that hold the plastic cowling on the bottom of the car. (if you are under the car, it's the cowling panel on the right).
Simply take that plastic piece off and the oil pan is right there. Just unscrew the little plug with a wrench, drian the old oil (make sure the oil cap in the engine bay is off), then once the oil has stopped dripping out plug it back up.
If you want to change the oil filter too (which i also do every time i change the oil), you can see the oil filter right there. Just unscrew it, wipe all the oil off of your arm, and put a new one back on (but don't forget to put some oil on the rubber gasket on the new oil filter before puting it on).

Hope that helps.

[My68Spit]

Forgot to mention the last step of acctually puting more oil back in the engine...very important step. :-)

Then let the car run for a little while once you lower it back down.

[IrCGTS]

any pictures?

[I3itchBoyz]

Here is a pic of what you will see when you remove that cover underneath the car.

http://members.cox.net/russellweb/bottomcelica.jpg

[KSilver2000]

What does the little drain plug that My68Spit is talking about in that picture and where is it located in that picture? By the way, do you replace the filter after all the oil is gone?
I was going to start using synthetic oil and someone told me to do an engine oil flush. He told me in order to do this all you have to do is buy the oil flush solution and a extra filter, and just drain the conventional oil out and pour in the flush solution with the new filter on and idle the car for about 20 min. Then you put in the new synthetic oil. Does this sound right? Thanks.

[I3itchBoyz]

The drain plug is not shown in the picture but its basically a bolt that you unscrew. I believe its a 14mm bronze bolt and its like the only one under there on a big black oil pan. Yes once you drain all the oil then you put that bolt back in and then you can replace the filter (you might need a special tool to get off the stock filter, I know I did) When you replace the filter be careful cause oil will shoot out even after you have drained the oil.

[1Highlander]

Originally posted by KSilver2000
What does the little drain plug that My68Spit is talking about in that picture and where is it located in that picture? By the way, do you replace the filter after all the oil is gone?
I was going to start using synthetic oil and someone told me to do an engine oil flush. He told me in order to do this all you have to do is buy the oil flush solution and a extra filter, and just drain the conventional oil out and pour in the flush solution with the new filter on and idle the car for about 20 min. Then you put in the new synthetic oil. Does this sound right? Thanks.

Yes, you can do an engine flush to get the dino deposits out of the engine and prepare the car for synthetic oil..

here's a link to learn about Amsoil's version of it...
engine flush (http://www.amsoil.com/products/aef.html)