Oil filter Location (3sge), I must be blind or something! Options

[MercuryFree]

Ok so I'm wishing to change my oil and filter but can't seem to locate the oil filter...am I blind? Where is it located on a RHD 3S-GE?

Thanks!

[parriehunter]

Haha.

Yea its under one of the bottom covers by the drain plug under the car.
You have to take it off to get to the filter. Its a b****h I know.as you are lying under the car i believe its on the left.

[Rusty]

Ok so I'm wishing to change my oil and filter but can't seem to locate the oil filter...am I blind?

dont worry it took me a while to find mine I was looking at the back next to the firewall.
from your alternator, down (as parriehunter said)
why does ours have to be so hard to find and change?

[parriehunter]

why does ours have to be so hard to find and change?

x2.

Yea it took me a while aswell.

[MercuryFree]

Cheers Guys

[parriehunter]

Sweet so you found it?

[delusionz]

I've never seen mine either, I only remember on the old 3S-FE I had it was sticking out like a sore thumb (orange fram tends to do that) next to the exhaust headers on the left.

[MercuryFree]

Ok so on a related note (this forum is such a pain to search on , how much oil should I be using? Don't want to have too much or too little heh

Such a n00b.

[Rusty]

the forum isn't really focused on 3S-GE

um im taking a guess around 4L? use your dip stick and your old oil as a rough guide. also what oil are you using?
tell me aswell how much oil, because I'm going to do mine sortly

[MercuryFree]

Shall be using Mobil 1 10W-30, cos that's what Toyota use/recommend for zee 3sge and although it's pricy, don't really want to change the type of oil after 212k's!

Aha! Haines says that it's 3.9L for the 2nd gen 3sge, so I assume third gen won't be much different.

This post has been edited by MercuryFree: Nov 23, 2008 - 12:40 AM

[Cuts_the_Pilot]

yeah about 4 litres.

where us cool gen3 and above have the filter is sooo much better then next to the manifolds.
what a prick of a spot, cant get good leverage on it if some stooge did it up to tight, cant do it if the engine is hot (should be at least warm when u do oil changes)

the only downside of ours is you get a little bit of oil on your hands, and you need to get on the ground, but you need to for undoing the drain plug anyway. But if you man up its not an issue

[Rusty]

yeah but at least (if your hard enough to get oil on your hands) you wont get any oil dripping on the undertray. oil and dirty looks good at the bottom of your engine bay

wheres the drain plug aswell, if trying to find the filter is this hard what about the drain plug?

what oil filter are you using?

[parriehunter]

wheres the drain plug aswell, if trying to find the filter is this hard what about the drain plug?

what oil filter are you using?

Its real near the filter, if you can fin one you will find the other.

I use castrol magnetic.

[Rusty]

Its real near the filter, if you can fin one you will find the other.

figured

got my trd filter arriving shortly, and after finding the filter should be an easy job

just a quick jack of the car remove the undertry and bingo

[MercuryFree]

Operation learn how to be a real man is a go! (lol)


(The two oil filters is cos we're doing my mate's Curren at the same time)

[Rusty]

Operation learn how to be a real man is a go! (lol)

lol
sweet, I would have thought a trd one would be finding its way under there?

[MercuryFree]

Operation learn how to be a real man is a go! (lol)

lol
sweet, I would have thought a trd one would be finding its way under there?

It would have if I had planned more and found out details, but meh. I've somewhat resigned myself to not spending any more 'upgrade' money on this car due to it being front wheel drive...looking at getting an Evo 5 tbh. Will still use the Celica as my daily driver of course