[V8] Flushing properly

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There is a followup to this procedure (besides several beers) ;)
 
About 36 hours after this procedure, your starter will fail, which will require removing the re-installed oil filter which will now be hopelessly locked into place by some unseen force - preventing spillage, but requiring an extension to remove, and enough torque to make that nice inexpensive Mahle filter will be garbage.
 
Been there, screamed bloody murder about that!
 
John
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: gbmarc at cox.net
To: v8 at audifans.com
Sent: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 9:50 PM
Subject: [V8] Flushing properly


Some of you may not be aware of the proper way to flush the V8 engine  
when changing your oil, so I'll just lay out the steps here:
First, go down to your local Price Club and make sure you get the  
best possible price on  6 or 7 quarts of Mobil-1   10-30.
(You can use 5-40 if you like but 10-30 worked fine for me)
Park the car in the garage, but don't jack it up fully. All you need  
is enough space to shove the drain pan underneath.
Drain the oil.
For the best flush, you need to remove the filter.
Remove the filter. Install the new one. Do this mainly by feel.
Tighten up the drain plug and refill with your expensive quarts of  
synthetic Mobil-1 flushing fluid.
Drive out of the garage and reverse back into your driveway parking  
space.
At this point you will hear a funny engine noise, so switch off quickly.
Tracking out of the garage and down the driveway will be a huge Mobil  
1 oil slick. It needs about 7 quarts to do this properly, (but I  
repeat myself)
If you don't see the oil slick, you've missed an important step.
You must leave the old rubber sealing gasket ring thingy from the old  
filter in place . . . well not exactly in place. It has to be flat  
enough to make you think the new filter is tightening just hunky  
dorily but sort of diagonal so it leaves a huge gap.

OK, well that about completes the procedure. Just finish up by  
removing and refitting the filter properly and stamping in rage on  
the old rubber ring thingy. (If your kids come up the driveway at  
this point with a Kwik Lube $10 oil change coupon, ask them, if  
they're so knowledgeable about car maintenance, how come they're  
wandering around with oil all over their sneakers?) Then head back to  
Price Club to pick up some more oil.
Oh,  one last precaution:  although opinions differ here, most  
experts don't  recommend using the Audi at this point. It's properly  
best to use the neighbors Honda (if they have the filter on properly,  
that is).

Mark. K.


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