Re: Shade tree mechanics

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Teresa A McMillan say:

> Okay, so I changed the earl & earl filter on my '88 80Q this weekend - 
> FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!  (And I've actually gotta confess that I did it 
> myself because I was too embarrassed to have anyone else see what my oil 
> looks like.)   So, since I discovered it requires taking off an 
> entire body panel and finding the little rubber hex nuts way the hell 
> up in the wheel wells, does that qualify me as an Official Shade Tree 
> Mechanic?
> 
> The second question is:  am I being stupid?  Do you usually let someone 
> else do it for you?  The screws were all stripped, so it seemed whoever 
> has done it before has not been very patient about getting the panel off...

I have both a 90Q20V, and a 100Q. The 100Q takes <5 minutes to change
oil: climb underneath with pan, flip valve open, pop filter off, open
new oil, screw in new filter, seal, fill, test.

The 90Q I won't even touch any more. It took 10 minutes to figure
out how to get the panel off, an hour to figure out how to get it
back on (drive to mechanic to do it), and there is no room to swing
a wrench down there to get the drain plug out. *!@&^(*!@&^#(*!@^&!(@*&^#

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