I am sooo pissed at Subaru right now!!!
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It serves no real purpose, so just take it off.
Trust me, if you hit something hard enough to where you want to protect your oil pan, that plastic thing will do NOTHING to save your oil pan. Even 1/4" thick aluminum skid plates do very little!
I just changed my oil for the first time on Tuesday, and the filter was on super tight from the factory. I can't believe how small these filters are in comparison to the civic I used to have. Anyway, I ended up putting a bunch of rubber bands so my filter wrench had something to hold on to.
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Just take the stupid thing off.. Takes like 2 mins. It's like 6 tabs and two screws, very easy to get to as well.
It serves no real purpose, so just take it off.
Trust me, if you hit something hard enough to where you want to protect your oil pan, that plastic thing will do NOTHING to save your oil pan. Even 1/4" thick aluminum skid plates do very little!
It serves no real purpose, so just take it off.
Trust me, if you hit something hard enough to where you want to protect your oil pan, that plastic thing will do NOTHING to save your oil pan. Even 1/4" thick aluminum skid plates do very little!
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my 4 runner has the filter on the top of the block, it's a piece of cake to get on and off... it's even got a built-in funnel in case you accidently spill any. 5k oil changes are pretty sweet too.
my tundra on the other hand has the filter on the bottom, but with those tires and suspension jacks are not needed
my tundra on the other hand has the filter on the bottom, but with those tires and suspension jacks are not needed
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does your friend realize 16 year olds work at jiffylube? and if they arent 16 years old, then they dropped out of highschool at 16
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Just take the stupid thing off.. Takes like 2 mins. It's like 6 tabs and two screws, very easy to get to as well.
It serves no real purpose, so just take it off.
Trust me, if you hit something hard enough to where you want to protect your oil pan, that plastic thing will do NOTHING to save your oil pan. Even 1/4" thick aluminum skid plates do very little!
It serves no real purpose, so just take it off.
Trust me, if you hit something hard enough to where you want to protect your oil pan, that plastic thing will do NOTHING to save your oil pan. Even 1/4" thick aluminum skid plates do very little!
Nah...too thick. It'll allow the frame to bend instead of absorbing the hit.
That's why Paul Eklund sells the 3/16ths aluminum skid plate. I have it installed on both wagons, and YES, they do absorb the impacts...they do their job extremely well.
^one of the smoother parts of the fire road we were on.
^another washboard road with rocks sticking up in the middle.
^It's a really "Primitive" road.
^Rally-x. Not much chance of hitting a rock, but definitely firms up the steering and ties the front end together nicely.
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First of all I did read this whole thread,
Maybe it's my reading comprehension skills or possibly because it's early in the morning but is the car in this thread with the oil change problem due to ELH's a 2007? I was under the impression that only the new body style 08's had the Equal length headers. I know a budy of mine with an 07 WRX that has Unequal length headers. When 07 was mentioned was this just refering to the production date of the car?
Maybe it's my reading comprehension skills or possibly because it's early in the morning but is the car in this thread with the oil change problem due to ELH's a 2007? I was under the impression that only the new body style 08's had the Equal length headers. I know a budy of mine with an 07 WRX that has Unequal length headers. When 07 was mentioned was this just refering to the production date of the car?
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First of all I did read this whole thread,
Maybe it's my reading comprehension skills or possibly because it's early in the morning but is the car in this thread with the oil change problem due to ELH's a 2007? I was under the impression that only the new body style 08's had the Equal length headers. I know a budy of mine with an 07 WRX that has Unequal length headers. When 07 was mentioned was this just refering to the production date of the car?
Maybe it's my reading comprehension skills or possibly because it's early in the morning but is the car in this thread with the oil change problem due to ELH's a 2007? I was under the impression that only the new body style 08's had the Equal length headers. I know a budy of mine with an 07 WRX that has Unequal length headers. When 07 was mentioned was this just refering to the production date of the car?
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you know what i did with my 04 wrx when the shop tighten it to much? i did everything brucelee tried nothing worked so i just used a screw driver and stabed it and eventually i had enought grip with all the riped part and used a towel wraped around it and twist it off hahaha
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