TD4 oil change

hi all! how hard is it to change the oil filter on a td4 freelander? my grandad just asked if i could do it and having serviced a few (older!) landys i said yeah that'll be fine. just googled the filter just to see how much it is and i see its just the element (thought it would be a screw in one like the rest!) is it a big/complicated job?

nah its easy enuff t do mate !
Hardest bits dropin the engine undercover tray if it aint bin off for a while ! Alternatively jut cut a hole in it and have done. you can see the drain if you poke yer head thro the wheel arch or lookin from the rear of the tray.
the filters at the front of the engine as you look at it LHS, big black nut on top an away yer go,
an dont ferget to changed the depression limitin Valvey doofer thing too.

An goodon yer fer lookin after the owld lad

Get yourself a 36mm socket to undo the filter housing, it makes life a whole lot easier. Halfords sell them as will probably many other motor factors.

and dont forget to get 6 litres of oil. a normal can is not quite enough

The DJ said:

and dont forget to get 6 litres of oil. a normal can is not quite enough

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Before emptieng the whole 6 litres I'd advise you to check at roughly 5-1/2 liter whether not enough in it. When I get 6 litres it's way over the max. on my dipstick. The highest level is with the, by LandRover, prescribed 6.8 litres but by decreasing that amount to the above 5.5 litres seems to me to be the best.

I just did an oil change on my mates mondeo. and removed 5.6ltrs of oil from it I refilled it. Including a filter change it took 4ltrs to reach the max mark on the dipstick.

Last week the oil was changed on my Td4 and I put exactly 5.5 liters in it plus 250cc of Nulon HP and the level on the dipstick just reaches the top of the MAX. level, in other words the oil level is correct and at the maximum. This means the 6.8 liter they prescribe is much too many and just good to teach the engine how to start using oil and get destroyed in the long (or short) run.

Put some old cloth/paper towels etc over the alternator to keep out oil drips otherwise the slipring brushes may stick. Dirt will also accumulate and reduce the cooling air flow.

vic.middleton said:

Put some old cloth/paper towels etc over the alternator to keep out oil drips otherwise the slipring brushes may stick. Dirt will also accumulate and reduce the cooling air flow.

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so whats the depression thing you on about

vic.middleton said:

Put some old cloth/paper towels etc over the alternator to keep out oil drips otherwise the slipring brushes may stick. Dirt will also accumulate and reduce the cooling air flow.

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Very good tip, thanks. (Will try to remember when I check the oil level as it sometimes happens a drop slides off the dipstick, normally I keep a cloth around the top of the tube where the dipstick comes out, that way it's whiped clean the first time and when re-introduced to have a correct reading it might happen).

[quote=chromiumuk;546952]Get yourself a 36mm socket to undo the filter housing, it makes life a whole lot easier. Halfords sell them as will probably many other motor factors.[/quote]

From GSF (German Swedish French motor factors) the socket is £6.80 and the Mahle filter (OX 153 D2) £5.80. Both prices approx as a bunch of idiots keep altering vat to make us spend more. Buy 2 sockets instead of one!

JonFre said:

[quote=chromiumuk;546952]Get yourself a 36mm socket to undo the filter housing, it makes life a whole lot easier. Halfords sell them as will probably many other motor factors.

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From GSF (German Swedish French motor factors) the socket is £6.80 and the Mahle filter (OX 153 D2) £5.80. Both prices approx as a bunch of idiots keep altering vat to make us spend more. Buy 2 sockets instead of one![/quote]

After all the hassle to find a 36mm socket I now found out it's also perfectly possible to do the oilfilter change with a common key as shown below. Good luck.