Type 4 Oil Change with Pics.

[Oldman]

Courtesy felixqld66 :

Oil change type 4 motor

Pictures help me a lot, so I thought I would throw this up in case it helps anyone else.

To do the job I got together the following tools – it was of course a journey of discovery. 

• 20 mm socket – for the oil drain plug
• 13mm socket – for the filter screen cover
• A socket bar for the above
• An oil filter wrench from Supercheap
• Rachet to suit the oil wrench
• An engineers scribe – cause I know engineers are smart and do important stuff to cars
• A tension wrench for tightening everything back up
• Oil drain pan
• A toothbrush – a guy doesn’t want to be accused of having breath
  bad enough to sink a prawn trawler !, apart from that it is very handy for cleaning the filterscreen. 



I have also purchased a filter, gasket and compression washer from a vw supplier



Then with all the stuff I parked the kombi on the hottest concrete slab I could find  and considered finding a more shaded/cooler location.
Looking up under the motor I located the drain plug and undid that, draining the oil into the pan.
All care was taken but of course I dropped the plug into the pan.....

 

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Then I removed the filter screen cover with the 13mm socket - the engineers scribe was handy to pop it off. 
The photo below shows the cover on.... just behind the drain plug.



The filterscreen came out with the gasket in place

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Then I removed the oil filter with the special wrench - now you see it