Oil Filter: Service and Repair

OIL FILTER REPLACEMENT [L3, AJ]

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.

L3

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, cup-type oil filter wrench (diameter - 74 mm (2.9 in), 14 sided).
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 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 applicable part.
13. Inspect the oil level. (See ENGINE OIL LEVEL INSPECTION [L3, AJ].) Testing and Inspection
14. Install the under cover.

AJ
1. Remove the under cover.





2. Remove the oil filter from above using a filter wrench.
3. Use a clean rag to wipe off the mounting surface.
4. Apply clean engine oil to the O-ring of new oil filter.
5. Install the oil filter until the O-ring contacts the sealing surface.
6. Tighten the filter 3/4 turns by hand.

Caution:
^ In case you spill engine oil on the exhaust system or the engine, wipe it off completely. If you fall to wipe the spilled engine oil, it will produce fumes because of the heat.

7. Start the engine and confirm that there is no oil leakage.
^ If there is oil leakage, repair or replace applicable part.
8. Inspect the oil level. (See ENGINE OIL LEVEL INSPECTION [L3, AJ].) Testing and Inspection
9. Install the under cover.