Nice job, Kim! :hello1: With your clear photo instructions, I may start changing the oil myself instead of paying $50 to my local dealer!
It's a lot easier than I thought it would be. 8)
It's a lot easier than I thought it would be. 8)
$50 dollars!!!!! You lucky. I would have to dealer do it for that price!!! My dealer wants around $200. - $250!!!! Way to much to me!! I paid roughly $20. for the oil and filter. I have to change the final drive oil tonight. So all in all I'm going to say it takes roughly 30 to 45 minutes to do everything needed for the 600 mile service! Specially if you know what your doing!! To me a service tech. should be able to do the whole job in roughly 20 to 30 min.Blexcroid said:Nice job, Kim! :hello1: With your clear photo instructions, I may start changing the oil myself instead of paying $50 to my local dealer!
It's a lot easier than I thought it would be. 8)
According to the service manual it's to make sure the oil is flowing properly!!! I just do it because the manual say's to!!!!!pamb said:great pictures. I intend to do my second oil change myself. Bought all the supplies. Your pictures make it even easier. I would just like to know purpose of loosening bolt by spark plug. thanks, Pam
That's exactly why I do my services myself!!! My dealer wanted around $250. to do the 600 mile service. Which is basically an oil change and final drive change. I only pay about 50 or so dollars to have my car serviced!!!!spirilis said:$110 wtf good god... this procedure really doesn't sound any harder than doing an oil change on a car, how can they justify that??
Kim, I can't find any mention of this bolt near the spark plug in my owners's manual. My manual is part number 5RU-28199-70.myhrdly said:According to the service manual it's to make sure the oil is flowing properly!!! I just do it because the manual say's to!!!!!pamb said:great pictures. I intend to do my second oil change myself. Bought all the supplies. Your pictures make it even easier. I would just like to know purpose of loosening bolt by spark plug. thanks, Pam![]()
I was about to buy a funnel w/ long shaft when I realized how bendable the funnel itself is...For the tranny refill...I just collapsed the funnel and "stuffed" it in between the wheel and rear shock...then rotated the wheel toward the tranny hole and wholla! the funnel shaft just kinda went IN to the tranny refill hole. After I was done filling with .26 qts of Yamalube 10w30 I just reversed the wheel and wholla! the funnel shaft came out!Cruzn said:A funnel with a long shaft makes getting the oils into the fill holes a whole lot easier than a straw or using multiple sized funnels going into each other ( please don't ask how I know this ). Also, I had to use a flashlight to make sure the small o-ring was in it's place for the oil filter.