Now thats convenient

 

Which engine is that?

Gadget

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That looks like the new 4.0 litre V6.

 

Well I'll be danged! Someone finally realized people don't like oil dripping all over when taking the oil filter off and struggling to actually get at it in the first place!

Alan

 

LOL, no kidding.........

I think this is going to get pretty usual in these new designed engines for the next coming years.

I know the new 6.0L POWER STROKE DIESEL (FORD) did the same exact thing by putting the oil filter on top, as seen here.

 

Well, don't hold your breath on that filter thing until you see how it works. That thing is upside down and when you unscrew it all that oil in the filter is going to want to go somewhere. That little lip on the mount is cute. I wonder what it is for?? It just does not look like it is going to hold all the oil that is going to dump out of the filter.

I have seen a very simular lip on the Pontiac GP 3.1. The lip is to short to do what it was intended to do and guides all the spilled oil right into a part of the sub frame you can not wipe out and it will drip out of it for days. Most just take that lip off to stop that designed in problem.

Lets hope I am wrong. Maybe it has a drain tube connected to it that guides the spilled oil down the engine and dumps out near the pan drain so it all goes into the collection pan.

Gadget

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Gadget...

But the filter is upsidedown, so if you drained the fluid, wouldnt it be mostly out of the filter, and what's left could easily be handled by the cute lip...


I still want to relocate mine, but hear so many horror stories.. and was told to just leave it alone...


BTW.. ROB!!! =) or anyone who had one, can someone show me a pic of the magic wrench i need to buy for the filter removal... i heard it clenches the filter and may even bend it but it easily removes it... I just use one of those rubber strap wrenches.. that seems to loosen it enough to unscrew it with my hands...

whats this magic tool look like so I can go buy one..

 

But doesn't it have an anti-drainback or something? I'm not quite sure how those work but I would think the filter would have to be unscrewed a little to break the oring seal to allow the oil to drain from it. I am probably talking out of my though.

 

You could always pop a hole in it with your bottle opener since you will most likely have one on you anyway...

 

Hel-l of an idear there Chief, hel-l of an idear!

 

Yeah, I heard from someone a while back that if you pop a hole in the filter, the rest of the oil will seep back instead of remaining in the filter.

It would be a pain w/ the 3rd gen V6's, but easy with this V6. Try it, 4th gens!

Bob

 

There is a nipple on the bottom of the lip so you can connect a hose to it and drain the oil that comes out of the filter.

 

Nice Avatar Bob! Self Portait? Looks like you are tokin' up on a socket and extension, that's an interesting pipe.

 

I can't wait for my wife to take it to the stealer for her first oil change. I wonder if the Stealership tech chumps will actually use a little hose to drain it. that may be a little too much trouble for them, that's one less thing to take up time and roll another vehicle into and through their bay to work toward that volume bonus.

 

Looks like Bob's patent-pending 50HP type R diff. breather
I'm still saving up for mine

 

Keisur,

Self-portrait? Maybe in my next life. But if i were reincarnated, I would hope that I'd be reborn as Snoop Dogg so I can make up words like "fo' shizzle" and laugh at rich, suburban white kids say all the stupid things I make up. (the "girls gone wild" appearances are a motivating factor too).

Its a photo I found on Yahoo's most popular photo page. Its been up there for awhile. The guy in the pic is from england and he was attending a cannibis festival. You can imagine what was in his admiring hand.

The Type R rear diff breather (selling like ice cream in the dead of summer at a fat lady's outdoor convention) was just too perfect not to be photochopped in his hands.

Bob

 

You are pretty much correct. The anti-drainback valve is depressed by the threaded shaft that comes out of the engine in the oil filter location. Therefore, upon removal of this oil filter, oil will come spilling out into the "cute" tray.

Now you could always avoid the anti-drainback valve altogether by getting a cheap Fram filter ...no thanks though, I will stay with OEM filters myself.

 

 

Oh, haha. I didn't look close enough. didn't realize that was a Type-R breather in his meat hooks. I guess he figures he'll get a more complete "burn" of the cannibis with the Type-R, I wonder if he's got a high flow exhaust connected to his rear end?