A couple of oil change tips people hardly ever address.

Our Aviator has a formed metal bracket below the filter. It funnels the dripping oil and keeps everything from getting drilled in. A quick wipe of it and you don’t have to worry about missed oil dripping all over the floor of the garage or driveway. Every car should have this!

Now that I've installed my BMR K member it looks like oil dripping from the filter will hardly even touch this K vs. the stock K.

Beercules said:

My k member moved things out from under the filter.

However, maybe use the poke-a-hole method with a nail tied to a string leading to the oil pan so the oil has something to cling to as it drips down? Like a rain chain.

Otherwise the plastic bag is a great idea. I'd use it with a rubber band on a cold engine. Open things up and watch tv for half hour or so while it drains. Won't get everything anyway and won't need to wait for heads to drain if it hasn't been run.

What do you guys think about running sea foam or BG 44K before an oil change to get carbon out of the cylinder?

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I’m not a fan of SeaFoam for this motor. I used it on DI Mini Coopers before, but out of necessity.

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Just a warning about the drill a hole in the filter method....loosen the filter first to make sure it will come off without any issues.

I use the foil method.

Always look at the filter you REMOVED to make sure the gasket came off. That way you don't have to worry about one on the motor.

Fill the empty filter with oil. That becomes the oil to lube the gasket on the new filter.

Tom

smashedheadcat said:

Do you lube the o-ring on the new filter with fresh oil prior to installation? I’ve been changing my oil for 20 years and have never had the o-ring stick to the engine during removal.

Anyway, nifty tip!

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I've seen it happen twice.

I’ve never filled the new filter with oil before.

Lube ring, yes, but don’t prefill.

As long as I’m filling with the specified amount, what’s the benefit?

72MachOne99GT said:

I’ve never filled the new filter with oil before.

Lube ring, yes, but don’t prefill.

As long as I’m filling with the specified amount, what’s the benefit?

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Keeps (or limits how long) the motor is run till the filter fills up sending oil to everything that is supposed to have it ---EX rods, crank, cam

Vertically and diagonally (SBF engines) mounted oil filters (with the gasket up) should be filled with oil before install, helps the engine built oil pressure almost immediately. The only time filling a filter will be difficult to do is if the filter mounted horizontally to the engine.

Z06, Shelby and GF's Mazda gets filter prefilled with oil before install, my DD Suzuki SX4 doesn't (filter mounts horizontally) so what I do here is make sure the oil in the containers is kinda warm........(summer time no issue since my oil is stored in the garage and flows good from the bottle, winter time I'll bring the required amount into the house to get it to room temp before adding to the car when doing a change).

smashedheadcat said:

Do you lube the o-ring on the new filter with fresh oil prior to installation? I’ve been changing my oil for 20 years and have never had the o-ring stick to the engine during removal.

Anyway, nifty tip!

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I just changed the oil in my car and the O-ring stuck to the block, I was using a NAPA Wix filter and it looks like it wasn't glued to the filter.
O-ring was lubed and filter was prefilled with oil before installation.
Just goes to show you, it pays to be observant.

The o ring on most filters usually just sit in the groove on the base of the filter. I've never heard of them being glued to the filter.

New u can actually remove the o ring and place it back in the groove.

Now that I mentioned this another thing to check before lubing the o ring and installing the new prefilled filter is to check the o ring and make sure it is sitting properly in the groove of the filter.

Tony

I’m new to this whole forum thing so I’m gonna start here. I have a 13 gt500 without track pack. I have an oil leak coming up above my oil filter area. Was just a minor few drips but now it’s leaking worse. Any ideas?

There are a few possibilities. Oil may be coming from the oil pressure sending unit which is just above the filter which is probably the most likely, or it could be coming out of the oil cooler. It's a coolant based cooler that has o-rings between the cooler and the adapter for both oil and coolant. Also there are o-rings between the adapter and the engine block for the inlet and outlet for the engine just behind the area near the top bolts on the alternator. That's not to say if might not be a valve cover. The track pack also has an external oil cooler that comes off of the oil cooler adapter, but I'm not familiar with the line routing for it. That could be another possibility.

raustin0017 said:

Good tip.
My tip of the day: I always fill up the new oil filter before it is installed and take a couple of drops of oil and lube the gasket before I hand tighten.

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This has been the same for like over 50yrs

Jerv said:

I’m new to this whole forum thing so I’m gonna start here. I have a 13 gt500 without track pack. I have an oil leak coming up above my oil filter area. Was just a minor few drips but now it’s leaking worse. Any ideas?

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Our cars have an oil cooler 'log' that attaches to the block and contains the oil sending unit, filter, and oil cooler brick that is then connected to the cooling system.
Is the car new to you?
Do you do your own oil changes?
I'd probably take the filter off to inspect everything.
My stock motor had a very small leak on the driver side
Front cover where a sensor was.
New engine should have same cover, but no leaks.
Good luck
-J

biminiLX said:

Our cars have an oil cooler 'log' that attaches to the block and contains the oil sending unit, filter, and oil cooler brick that is then connected to the cooling system.

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So when you change your filter, all of the oil in filter, oil lines to and from the block and the oil cooler need to fill up with oil before you have oil pressure. It's a good idea to fill the filter with oil, but it's also not a bad idea to put your accelerator to the floor and give it a good long crank. The engine will not start as there are safeguards built into the system, but your engine spinning a few hundred rpm without oil is better than 1,000 rpm or more at fast idle without oil pressure.