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Originally Posted by kgibby
Nice tips, I forgot to include that. I ran this post through chatgpt to clean up the formatting and it lost some detail. I added most back, but I think there was a section about the mess I forgot to rewrite. You are very right, it is a MESS. You really need to be ready for it, I wasn't and my fresh garage floor pad is stained. Good tip with the intake manifold dirt, it does fall into the intakes. I sprayed compressed air and still had a few leaf pieces I had to fish out.
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Yeah I had a square plastic pan nicely sitting underneath the engine stand, and the volume and /or rate of fluid caused the pan to tip off the engine stand and spill all over the garage floor. Put cardboard all over the place on the floor.
Also I read a post that said the leak could be caused by over tightening the cap when doing an oil change. I don't know about that, but if you think about it it might be possible. It is all plastic. If you crank on the cap maybe it twist something out and it'll start to leak. So 25 Newton meters it is. Not worth gambling having to do this job over it. And also I never used it on the drain plug either but turns out I've been under tightening that, so I do that too now.