TexasRebel
Gearshifter
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Until March, I'd always been a pickup guy...
Oil changes in those are easy... crawl under, position drain pan, drain oil, reposition drain pan, drain filter, have a beer, remove filter, and replace everything (except the beer) in the reverse order.
That's great when there is a clear shot from the oil filter body to the floor. When the seal opens, oil drains out to the nadir of the filter before falling into the pan (1977 C10, 2002 Silverado, 2008 F250). The one exception being a 1999 L4 S10 which had a horizontally mounted oil filter. This vehicle had a clever plastic gutter which emptied the filter near enough to the drain plug that the pan did not have to be repositioned to drain both the sump and the filter.
--Enter 2016 Mustang GT.--
After buying ramps because I'm much thicker in the Z-axis while lying down than the vehicle clearance allows... I eventually locate the filter. behind a cross-member and hidden behind a rubber flap. There is no clear shot from the filter to the floor... so oil will get onto something I can't reach to clean. There is an outside chance it will all just run down the rubber flap into the pan, but that doesn't seem likely.
How do you deal with the filter draining?
Oil changes in those are easy... crawl under, position drain pan, drain oil, reposition drain pan, drain filter, have a beer, remove filter, and replace everything (except the beer) in the reverse order.
That's great when there is a clear shot from the oil filter body to the floor. When the seal opens, oil drains out to the nadir of the filter before falling into the pan (1977 C10, 2002 Silverado, 2008 F250). The one exception being a 1999 L4 S10 which had a horizontally mounted oil filter. This vehicle had a clever plastic gutter which emptied the filter near enough to the drain plug that the pan did not have to be repositioned to drain both the sump and the filter.
--Enter 2016 Mustang GT.--
After buying ramps because I'm much thicker in the Z-axis while lying down than the vehicle clearance allows... I eventually locate the filter. behind a cross-member and hidden behind a rubber flap. There is no clear shot from the filter to the floor... so oil will get onto something I can't reach to clean. There is an outside chance it will all just run down the rubber flap into the pan, but that doesn't seem likely.
How do you deal with the filter draining?
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