oil-change-oholics

[Larry C Leung]

Filters should be changed every change. Reasons:

If your on the lift, why not?

There is approximately 0.5 - 0.7 liters of contaminated oil (out of about
4.5) still inside the filter, thus circulating acified oil through the
sump immediately, rather than after many start/stop cycles. Why allow
this oil to circulate? It's not a question of particulates, its mor a
chemistry issue.

LL - NY

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 01:26:33 -0400 Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>
writes:
>At 11:08 PM -0700 10/26/01, Dave Priebe wrote:
>
>>One thing that he did mention right off the bat, was that I had done 
>a good
>>job changing my oil so frequently. Apparently it is quite easy to 
>tell when
>>rebuilding turbos who changes their oil every 3000 miles and who 
>doesn't.
>
>Oil changes every 3,000 miles with a good synthetic is a little bit 
>excessive, considering the factory manual says 7500 miles between oil 
>
>changes(and this was with dino oil.)  5000 miles per change would be 
>-more- than safe.  Filters are supposed to be changed every other oil 
>
>change.
>
>There are plenty of other fluids that don't get changed nearly 
>enough.  When was the last time you changed your hydraulic fluid? 
>Brake fluid, inc the clutch circuit?  Coolant?
>
>The Bently's schedule mentions a few things I never really 
>remember...for example, checking pressure on the spare, levels in the 
>
>battery, etc...but it doesn't mention hydraulic fluid(I think.)
>
>I always wonder if half the reason there are so many hydraulic system 
>
>failures is because nobody changes the fluid in the system often 
>enough; it's expensive stuff, but OTOH, racks in particular are much, 
>
>much, much more expensive after you get through with labor charges...
>
>   A partial change is very easy...pump the pedal until it goes 
>hard(this empties the bomb of fluid, but don't do it if the reservoir 
>
>is at the max line, or you'll overflow it), pull the front hose off 
>to drain the reservoir, clean out the container/screen, fill it back 
>up.  Partial changes this way aren't the best way, but they're easy, 
>and changing some is better than none...
>
>B
>
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