Time for some FLUID dirty work.

[camthman]

So just got all my fluids in.  Just did oil change at the dealer not long ago.  But besides that...


Time for new fluids in TRANNY, PTU, RDU.

I will be showing before and afters. I know this has been done many times before, but I figured If Im going to document, might as well show some pics.

Oh ya, and NGK's.

 

[SHOdded]

:thumb:  the more, the merrier.  Anybody not interested can skip over it.  But if you don't post the info at all, that would count as a loss for our community overall.

 

[camthman]

Got the Tstat/plugs/and M-design installed this weekend.

Orginal plugs were FoMoCo platinum's.  Car has 75k miles.  Switch to NGK's 6510's.  One step colder and gapped @.030.

Really though, OEM plugs looked really good. They were all mostly gapped at .040 with one that was like .045.

Lastly, Pulling the thermostat out the OEM one was upsidedown.  So that was odd. Installed 170 and no problems there. maybe lost a quart of fluid from the block.

Next fluids...

 

[SHOdded]

Solid progress  so far :thumb:

 

[derfdog15]

Got the Tstat/plugs/and M-design installed this weekend.

Orginal plugs were FoMoCo platinum's.  Car has 75k miles.  Switch to NGK's 6510's.  One step colder and gapped @.030.

Really though, OEM plugs looked really good. They were all mostly gapped at .040 with one that was like .045.

Lastly, Pulling the thermostat out the OEM one was upsidedown.  So that was odd. Installed 170 and no problems there. maybe lost a quart of fluid from the block.

Next fluids...

Makes me think the PO may have had a tune/stat on the car? Possibly reverted to stock and installed OE stat incorrectly, and may have also replaced plugs at some point. 75K on plugs seems much higher than I would expect them to last (even with 100k service interval) based on what I have seen in plug related threads.

 

[camthman]

Got the Tstat/plugs/and M-design installed this weekend.

Orginal plugs were FoMoCo platinum's.  Car has 75k miles.  Switch to NGK's 6510's.  One step colder and gapped @.030.

Really though, OEM plugs looked really good. They were all mostly gapped at .040 with one that was like .045.

Lastly, Pulling the thermostat out the OEM one was upsidedown.  So that was odd. Installed 170 and no problems there. maybe lost a quart of fluid from the block.

Next fluids...

Makes me think the PO may have had a tune/stat on the car? Possibly reverted to stock and installed OE stat incorrectly, and may have also replaced plugs at some point. 75K on plugs seems much higher than I would expect them to last (even with 100k service interval) based on what I have seen in plug related threads.

Its been in the family since 0 miles... NOTHING has been done to it. DD'ed and driven by mom who has a feather for a foot.

Same with plugs. This thing has been babied.

Not sure what the stock plug gap is.

 

[derfdog15]

Got the Tstat/plugs/and M-design installed this weekend.

Orginal plugs were FoMoCo platinum's.  Car has 75k miles.  Switch to NGK's 6510's.  One step colder and gapped @.030.

Really though, OEM plugs looked really good. They were all mostly gapped at .040 with one that was like .045.

Lastly, Pulling the thermostat out the OEM one was upsidedown.  So that was odd. Installed 170 and no problems there. maybe lost a quart of fluid from the block.

Next fluids...

Makes me think the PO may have had a tune/stat on the car? Possibly reverted to stock and installed OE stat incorrectly, and may have also replaced plugs at some point. 75K on plugs seems much higher than I would expect them to last (even with 100k service interval) based on what I have seen in plug related threads.

Its been in the family since 0 miles... NOTHING has been done to it. DD'ed and driven by mom who has a feather for a foot.

Same with plugs. This thing has been babied.

Not sure what the stock plug gap is.

Gotcha, definitely odd about the stat then. I guess it hasn't been tuned for long, so spark levels wouldn't be higher than stock for a lot of the miles on the plugs. I want to say stock gap is ~.035 but that may be wrong.

Edit because I wrote .35 meaning to write .035

 

[SHOdded]

Stock plug gap was supposed to be 0.035 on average for 2010-12.

 

[camthman]

Stock plug gap was supposed to be 0.035 on average for 2010-12.

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So .040-.045 was mine... so good thing I put new ones in @ .028-.030

 

[camthman]

PTU and RDU oil is now changed.  What a mess.  I was in a hurry and got gear oil everywhere.

Anyway, car has 75k miles.  1 owner.  Babied.

PTU was dark fluid of course, sh*t on the magnet.  But oil WAS NOT sludge. came our pretty easily however low.

RDU sucked...  Fluid got cold by the time I got to it and it was near impossible to pump out. So I pumped out what I could (probably half) and put Mobile 1 back in.

Everything seems good to go, next oil change I will do the PTU again.  Very easy with PPE catless DP's.

 

[SHOdded]

:thumb: :thumb:

 

[camthman]

:thumb: :thumb:

Thanks Boss man