dibbons
Well-Known Member
Not easy any longer on the newest vehicles.
Not easy any longer on the newest vehicles.
My '04 LeSabre is the same way....so was my Chrysler Concorde with the 2.7I was surprised when I looked under the wife's Buick Envision with the turbocharged 4 . The oil filter and drain plug are right out in the open.
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My tenant recently bought a used Toyota pickup from a Toyota dealer.
I told him he could use my shop lift to service it but he told me he bought the 3 year oil change/tire rotation package for $1200.00 so he was good to go.
10K? Wow... I've done 25K using Amsoil 30 years ago but that came with a new filter change every 5K.I bought a new Toyota truck this year, tell you neighbor the oil change is every 10,000 miles, so he probably bought three oil changes.
10K? Wow... I've done 25K using Amsoil 30 years ago but that came with a new filter change every 5K.
I did 50K oil changes on my CAT diesels but with a new filter every 10K.
I bought oil and a filter this week for my Buick daily driver... approaching 3,000 miles and it's time. Since I have too much crap in my shop I can't use my lift so I get all this stuff done before the cold weather sets in.
My Cadillac mechanic friend did the same thing for Caddy heater cores. Somehow he found a way to cut a hole in the firewall and R&R the heater core, then pop rivet a stainless panel over the hole, made it look factory. I believe we did a Cleveland head gasket without taking the intake off, just unbolted it from the one side and popped the head off. It was a dry intake so there was no coolant spilling, what did we know back then? It had a bathtub intake gasket that stayed in place. It wasnt the gasket we changed, it was the whole cracked head after he put water in it after it lost it all and overheated. We may have even reused the head gasket...yeah. High school $3.35/hr job budget!Someone got the idea to use a 4" holesaw to bore thru the right fenderwell to access the hard to reach bolt. Took the repair time down to one hour saving the customer $500.00....
Reminded me of my Chevy dealer days seeing the HD techs replacing a head gasket on a SBC without removing the intake manifold. Eye-opening!