Hey guys, I changed my oil Friday @ 2531 miles. I will be sending in the sample to Blackstone labs for analysis. I will post the results on this thread.
Couple things I noticed and this has been touched on other threads already:
- adding 2x6's to get onto normal rhino ramps is a must.
- The crush ring is painted on. I ended up putting the plug into a vice and simply running a razor blade around the ring and it popped right off.
- The oil plug was on pretty tight. I used a 14 mm socket with a 3 inch ext. and I was able to break it loose. I tightened back the plug close to how the old one was.
- I let the oil drain for around 45 mins. I used Subaru fully synthetic 0w-20 and Subaru AA130 filter. I recommend letting the oil drain for as long as you can.
- I hand tightened the oil filter as much as I could and barely snugged it up with a filter strap wrench - this seems to work well.
- I put back in 5.625 quarts of oil and it is a touch under the full marker. I rather have it a touch under than over.
- When checking the oil level on this engine I found it being dead cold after a couple hours yields the best results.