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I took my first crack at this today.
As my first project, I successfully changed the oil without making too much of a mess. But I did under estimate how much spillage would come out of the oil filter, (seems like a dopey design to have it mounted horizontally rather than vertically). The oil absorbing sheet I had in place helped, but I still needed to use a dozen or so paper towels to clean up the mess.
The second "project" was changing the air filter. Normally I wouldn't call this a project. But somehow at some point, it appeared that someone had spilled oil onto or into the filter case because the lower half inch of the filter was saturated with engine oil. So it took a while to completely clean out the filter housing before I could put the new filter into it. But that's done too.
As my first project, I successfully changed the oil without making too much of a mess. But I did under estimate how much spillage would come out of the oil filter, (seems like a dopey design to have it mounted horizontally rather than vertically). The oil absorbing sheet I had in place helped, but I still needed to use a dozen or so paper towels to clean up the mess.
The second "project" was changing the air filter. Normally I wouldn't call this a project. But somehow at some point, it appeared that someone had spilled oil onto or into the filter case because the lower half inch of the filter was saturated with engine oil. So it took a while to completely clean out the filter housing before I could put the new filter into it. But that's done too.