Oh my goodness........
Seems like such a simple thing... Oil is dirty. Take out old oil. Remove filter. Install new filter. Pour in new oil.
Yeah.....
Not really....
Step 1 (removing oil).
This step was super simple with my handy dandy oil extractor. Pump up this clever device seven or eight billion times and voila, I've got all of the oil out of the car and am ready to move on to Step 2.
Step 2 (remove filter).
Who's brilliant idea was it to put the friggin filter behind the tire. Could it really be in a less convenient place? Okay, well it is what it is, so I go get the floor jack and was pleased as punch that it fit under the car. It was especially handy to have the arrow showing me where to put the jack! Thanks Acura! I'm still bitter about the filter placement though. Anyway, cars up in the air, so I grab my spiffy new oil filter wrench and wiggle under the car and slip the the wrench over the filter and voila... Who knew that oil filter wrenchs come in different sizes?! I'll bet you figured out that I have the wrong size. Mine's too big. No biggy I think to myself, my beautiful pregnant wife is inside watching tv and will be going to bed anytime, so I have all night to get this thing right. I go and get the old filter wrench which has never worked very well for me, but it's all I had, so I give that a go. This again requires my wiggling back out from under the car to go get the other wrench. Anyway, back under the car I go with the old wrench. I contort my arms and wrists in the most unnatural of positions in order to get the wrench on the filter and try to take it off. Uh oh... It won't budge. Keep trying I think to myself. I'm strong, I can do it. 20 minutes of groaning, banging my knuckles on the beauty of the NSX suspension and, well, nada... Darn thing won't budge. Now what? I consider asking my wife for her help. Maybe she can get the filter off. Not sure whether she can get her belly under the car, but she's pretty strong too, so it was worth thinking about. Well, since she was tired, I figured I'd let her alone. Okay, back to the filter... I'm not done? How can I not be done? If I'd gone to Jiffy Lube, I'd be done. Darn, I hate being cheap. Okay, the filter... How do I get it off? Perhaps I can drill a hole in it and pry it off with a screwdriver. I have always heard of that approach and this seemed like my only option. Out comes my new drill. Well, it's not that easy to drill at at this angle. 10 minutes later, I've scuffed up the filter pretty good, but I don't think I've gotten anywhere with drilling a hole into the filter. Alright, what if I drill more toward the bottom of the filter? Well, that seems to work pretty well and before I could say "Exxon Valdez," I had my very own oil slick in my garage! Oh S$#11#@$#!#@$. If my wife see's this, she's going to take away my tools for a long time! Little tiny filter holds a heckuva a lot of oil. Well, I've got my hole in the filter, so in goes the screwdriver. Hmm... I'm pulling pretty hard, but oddly, the filter isn't moving. No wait, it is starting too... Uh, no... that's the screwdriver bending... Man.... this sucks. Okay, larger screwdriver... Hey, it's working, the filter moved. I'll spare you the next 20 minutes devoted to moving the filter 1/4 inch at a time. Anyway, I finally get the filter off. Yeah!
Step 3 (install filter). At this point, Sue and Penny (my doggy) come out to visit.... Please don't see the oil slick, please don't see the oil slick, please don't sick the oil slick... Ok, they went back inside, so back underneath the car I go with my oil filter filled with oil. ahhhh.... the filter doesn't fit! Darn Advance Auto Parts... They told me that this particular K&N filter is the right one. I saw the computer screen and it showed the item number I picked up. Well, I guess that's that. Off to Acura in the AM to get the right filter and I'll finish up tomorrow night.
Hopefully the next time I go to take the oil filter off it will come a bit easier...
I really liked that K&N filter because it has a 1 inch bolt like thing on the top to help you spin it off. Anyway have the right part number for a K&N oil filter?
Have a good night NSX'ers.
Seems like such a simple thing... Oil is dirty. Take out old oil. Remove filter. Install new filter. Pour in new oil.
Yeah.....
Not really....
Step 1 (removing oil).
This step was super simple with my handy dandy oil extractor. Pump up this clever device seven or eight billion times and voila, I've got all of the oil out of the car and am ready to move on to Step 2.
Step 2 (remove filter).
Who's brilliant idea was it to put the friggin filter behind the tire. Could it really be in a less convenient place? Okay, well it is what it is, so I go get the floor jack and was pleased as punch that it fit under the car. It was especially handy to have the arrow showing me where to put the jack! Thanks Acura! I'm still bitter about the filter placement though. Anyway, cars up in the air, so I grab my spiffy new oil filter wrench and wiggle under the car and slip the the wrench over the filter and voila... Who knew that oil filter wrenchs come in different sizes?! I'll bet you figured out that I have the wrong size. Mine's too big. No biggy I think to myself, my beautiful pregnant wife is inside watching tv and will be going to bed anytime, so I have all night to get this thing right. I go and get the old filter wrench which has never worked very well for me, but it's all I had, so I give that a go. This again requires my wiggling back out from under the car to go get the other wrench. Anyway, back under the car I go with the old wrench. I contort my arms and wrists in the most unnatural of positions in order to get the wrench on the filter and try to take it off. Uh oh... It won't budge. Keep trying I think to myself. I'm strong, I can do it. 20 minutes of groaning, banging my knuckles on the beauty of the NSX suspension and, well, nada... Darn thing won't budge. Now what? I consider asking my wife for her help. Maybe she can get the filter off. Not sure whether she can get her belly under the car, but she's pretty strong too, so it was worth thinking about. Well, since she was tired, I figured I'd let her alone. Okay, back to the filter... I'm not done? How can I not be done? If I'd gone to Jiffy Lube, I'd be done. Darn, I hate being cheap. Okay, the filter... How do I get it off? Perhaps I can drill a hole in it and pry it off with a screwdriver. I have always heard of that approach and this seemed like my only option. Out comes my new drill. Well, it's not that easy to drill at at this angle. 10 minutes later, I've scuffed up the filter pretty good, but I don't think I've gotten anywhere with drilling a hole into the filter. Alright, what if I drill more toward the bottom of the filter? Well, that seems to work pretty well and before I could say "Exxon Valdez," I had my very own oil slick in my garage! Oh S$#11#@$#!#@$. If my wife see's this, she's going to take away my tools for a long time! Little tiny filter holds a heckuva a lot of oil. Well, I've got my hole in the filter, so in goes the screwdriver. Hmm... I'm pulling pretty hard, but oddly, the filter isn't moving. No wait, it is starting too... Uh, no... that's the screwdriver bending... Man.... this sucks. Okay, larger screwdriver... Hey, it's working, the filter moved. I'll spare you the next 20 minutes devoted to moving the filter 1/4 inch at a time. Anyway, I finally get the filter off. Yeah!
Step 3 (install filter). At this point, Sue and Penny (my doggy) come out to visit.... Please don't see the oil slick, please don't see the oil slick, please don't sick the oil slick... Ok, they went back inside, so back underneath the car I go with my oil filter filled with oil. ahhhh.... the filter doesn't fit! Darn Advance Auto Parts... They told me that this particular K&N filter is the right one. I saw the computer screen and it showed the item number I picked up. Well, I guess that's that. Off to Acura in the AM to get the right filter and I'll finish up tomorrow night.
Hopefully the next time I go to take the oil filter off it will come a bit easier...
I really liked that K&N filter because it has a 1 inch bolt like thing on the top to help you spin it off. Anyway have the right part number for a K&N oil filter?
Have a good night NSX'ers.