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Originally Posted by tbrocato
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.
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Nice. I wouldn't suggest using the Subaru Synthetic oil though. We've seen horrible UOAs on them as well as consumption on WRXs. More than 1 of our clients was using Motul, and wasn't consuming any oil between 3500 mile oil changes. Switched to Subaru Synthetic and started using 1Q/1k miles. Switched back to Motul on his next change and went back to no consumption. Additionally we've had one owner get an amazing reply from blackstone using the OEM filter coupled with Motul, where they said after 3500 miles the oil is almost as good as new!
Let us know if we can help hook you up with Motul or Amsoil fluids, we have been using both in both our track and street subies for 10 years and really love em.
-Mike Paisan
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