attempted home oil change
hi all,
i am quite new to servicing a mazda 3 2004 NEO 2L at home, and have tried and failed today. i managed to get the plastic cover off the bottom, but cannot locate/remove the oil plug. what i think is the oil plug, i cannot undo. it feels like it was screwed on by the mighty hand of Lucifer himself... another bolt, which looks suspeciously like an oil sump plug, i cannot undo due to lack of socket size. appears to be atleast 20mm, and the largested i have is only 19mm... then i thought, well, atleast i might be able to replace the filter... nope, again, the devils's powers struck this and i could not undo. it would not budge. anyone else had similar problems and know of a solution? attached is photos of what i suspect one is the plug. is this the plug? http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/SDC10076.jpg or is this it? http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...SDC10080-1.jpg filter: http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/SDC10082.jpg |
Originally Posted by zynasis
(Post 408408)
hi all,
i am quite new to servicing a mazda 3 2004 NEO 2L at home, and have tried and failed today. i managed to get the plastic cover off the bottom, but cannot locate/remove the oil plug. what i think is the oil plug, i cannot undo. it feels like it was screwed on by the mighty hand of Lucifer himself... another bolt, which looks suspeciously like an oil sump plug, i cannot undo due to lack of socket size. appears to be atleast 20mm, and the largested i have is only 19mm... then i thought, well, atleast i might be able to replace the filter... nope, again, the devils's powers struck this and i could not undo. it would not budge. anyone else had similar problems and know of a solution? attached is photos of what i suspect one is the plug. is this the plug? http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/SDC10076.jpg or is this it? http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...SDC10080-1.jpg filter: http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...s/SDC10082.jpg |
thanks, that helped alot. i believe i was turning it the right way, it was just incredibly hard to turn... now i think about it, maybe i should of taken off the oil cap on the engine, incase there is compression holding the bolt in.
the oil filter remover thing i might just get, im not quite confident enough to bash a whole through it ;-) again, thanks for your help |
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