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You can buy Walmart's High-Performance 5-30 synthetic oil in 5-quart plastic bottle for about $13.00 or about $2.75 per quart,likely as good as or actually produced and bottled by Mobile as I dont know of any Walmart's offshore drilling rigs ... haha.
It's better to use Toyota's 2-stage oil filters, usually on sale for about $5 at the dealer.
For bros who dont have the hydraulic jack, nail together 3 of the 2x4 beams in staggered positions, to make a ramp for the front tires to grab and climb up, raising the front of the car about 6 inches for access. Add car jacks or 2 large stacks of hard wood under the front chassis hard points to make sure it wont collapse, and you are fairly safe to go under the car. Dont let anyone touch or go in or out of the car while you are under it!
The plastic baffles under the engine are a pain to remove and replace, but they are needed to keep airflow smooth under the car to reduce drags and improve handling stability at high speed. If you dont care, you can keep the middle baffle off for ease of access to the oil pan.
With a large funnel and duck tape, you should be able to drain oil, xmission and coolant fluids with limited opening of the plastic baffles, so you dont have to spend too much time under the car putting them back.
It's safer to take your supplies and spare fasteners to a shop with lifts and just pay them for their time, watching them reinstalling all the baffles back properly. Unless securely fastened, the bottom bafles may get knocked down by the force of wind at high speed and damaged.
Good luck, guys and girls....
It's better to use Toyota's 2-stage oil filters, usually on sale for about $5 at the dealer.
For bros who dont have the hydraulic jack, nail together 3 of the 2x4 beams in staggered positions, to make a ramp for the front tires to grab and climb up, raising the front of the car about 6 inches for access. Add car jacks or 2 large stacks of hard wood under the front chassis hard points to make sure it wont collapse, and you are fairly safe to go under the car. Dont let anyone touch or go in or out of the car while you are under it!
The plastic baffles under the engine are a pain to remove and replace, but they are needed to keep airflow smooth under the car to reduce drags and improve handling stability at high speed. If you dont care, you can keep the middle baffle off for ease of access to the oil pan.
With a large funnel and duck tape, you should be able to drain oil, xmission and coolant fluids with limited opening of the plastic baffles, so you dont have to spend too much time under the car putting them back.
It's safer to take your supplies and spare fasteners to a shop with lifts and just pay them for their time, watching them reinstalling all the baffles back properly. Unless securely fastened, the bottom bafles may get knocked down by the force of wind at high speed and damaged.
Good luck, guys and girls....