Engine Oil Filter Removal & Installation: Installation
- 1. Engine Oil Filter - Install
1. Install the oil filter by hand
2. After the rubber seal seats, tighten the oil filter clockwise with the oil filter wrench.
Tighten: 3/4 Turn Clockwise Tightening Torque: 12 N.m (1.2 kgf.m, 9 lbf.ft) 3. If four numbers or marks (1 to 4 or Δ to ΔΔΔΔ) are printed around the outside of the filter, use the following procedure to tighten the filter. - Spin the filter on until its seal lightly seats against the oil pan, and note which number or mark is at the bottom.
- Tighten the filter by turning it clockwise three numbers or marks from the one you noted. For example, if mark Δ is at the bottom when the seal is lightly seated, tighten the filter until the mark ΔΔΔΔ comes around to the bottom.
Number or Mark when rubber seal is seated 1 or Δ 2 or ΔΔ 3 or ΔΔΔ 4 or ΔΔΔΔ Number or Mark after tightening 4 or ΔΔΔΔ 1 or Δ 2 or ΔΔ 3 or ΔΔΔ - 2. Engine Oil Filter After Install - Check
1. After installation, fill the engine with engine oil to the specified level , run the engine for more than 3 minutes, then check for oil leakage.
- 3. Maintenance Minder - Reset (With Maintenance Minder System)
1. If the Maintenance Minder required to replace the oil filter, reset the Maintenance Minder with the gauge (see "Resetting the Maintenance Minder").
