Ford Transit Forum

by **Carbon Tech** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:28 pm

Hi Guy's changed my engine oil and filter yesturday Sunday 7th could not beleave how hard it was to remove the filter, there i was, jacked up van on my back underneath reached up could not budge it finally put on chain rench, off it comes, then took ages to work out how to get the canister out of the engine bay, decided that it had to go out from the bottom, but the only way was to prize it past the 3-off brake pipes or what ever they are, then it came out, next re-fit new filter screwed on no problem but i could not get any purchase on it to tighten it 3/4 turn in the end i had to put chain rench back on and turn till i was happy , went down local car spares shop to try and get cup type locker/unlocker to fit end of filter , all to small , i could not beleave it was so hard and took along time to complete a very simple job..

Or did i miss something and get it completely wrong ..........any help guy's for the next time......

by **nokites** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:43 pm

There is a bracket from the diff casing to cross member undo main fixing bolt and lever engine forward /down from underneath, this will give you the room you need to remove oil filter re-tighten bolt to 80Nm

by **Gazman78** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:00 pm

Take off the drivers side wheel and remove and replace through the back of the arch, thats how i did it

by **Carbon Tech** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:32 am

Ok Cheers Guy's i'll remember that for the next time :wink:

by **SirKit Breaker** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:00 pm

I took mine to the garage, and they did it :mrgreen:

by **ginsters** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:37 pm

Me to I've tried every way and 28 quid in the garage is the easyest....

by **Lefty64** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:31 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jxmDYw3 ... re=related

by **Lefty64** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:33 pm

Whoops.

Sorry about this, my fingers slipped. Enjoy it anyway.

by **Olly232** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:37 am

Gazman78 wrote:Take off the drivers side wheel and remove and replace through the back of the arch, thats how i did it

Do you have to remove anything else like the wheel arch liner? I've got mine to do this weekend.

by **Carbon Tech** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:49 am

Olly not easy but you can do it yourself as i did above i did not remove any wheel, but it did take me about 1.5 - 2.0 hrs to complete , oh yes i saved the garage charges and i know in the end it was done properley
:lol: