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

[Oldman]

Now you don't



While the oil was draining I cleaned up the oil screen.

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When the oil was all drained I put a smear of oil on the gasket of the oil filter and screwed it back on tightening it by hand only.



The filterscreen was fitted back back in with the gasket in place and the nut was tightened with the tension wrench to 9ft/lbs. 
The sump plug was also fitted with a compresion washer and tightened to 9ft/lbs by the wrench.

Refilling the motor was done in a few stages so as to not over fill it, checking the dipstick as I went.

Pretty easy job really, and a mate an I did my bus and his T3 in about an hour sharing the tools and learning as we went. 

I reckon you could knock it over in 20 mins once you have done it the first time.