[V8] Flushing properly

[d saad]

It seems pretty obvious you have broken commandment #4 -
"Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbors BMW"
and the Audi gods are
punishing you.
You must open your wallet toward Inglostadt to
repent.
It wouldn't hurt to give your V8 a nice hand wax too...


Dave

> 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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