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Service advice for beginners
Things I learnt while doing my own service on a Surf for the first time:
Sump drain plug is further forward than you think it is.
The ATF fluid drain plug can easily be mistaken for the sump drain plug if you are hard of thinking like I am.
ATF fluid is red.
ATF fluid is quite expensive when you HAVE to buy 5 litres in a hurry on Saturday afternoon.
It is quicker to spend 5 minutes removing the bash plate than spent half an hour working around it only to remove it in the end anyway.
Hand tight obviously meant something different to whoever fitted the filter you want to remove.
£7 for a spider filter wrench on ebay is money well spent.
If you prime the filter and then have to take the pipe off again you WILL get covered in diesel.
If the truck won't start after you have finished the service look for the fuel line that has dropped down where you can't see it.
Just because there are a couple of pipes that look like fuel lines near the filter they may not be fuel lines.
If you have connected a pipe to the filter and primed it of course there will be diesel coming out of it when you remove it again. (Seems obvious now!).
If something isn't right look for the obvious things first.
Friends can see something straight away that you have missed for the last 4 hours.( Like a black fuel line that has dropped down into a dark corner of the engine bay).
Hope this might help others in the future.
Chris
Sump drain plug is further forward than you think it is.
The ATF fluid drain plug can easily be mistaken for the sump drain plug if you are hard of thinking like I am.
ATF fluid is red.
ATF fluid is quite expensive when you HAVE to buy 5 litres in a hurry on Saturday afternoon.
It is quicker to spend 5 minutes removing the bash plate than spent half an hour working around it only to remove it in the end anyway.
Hand tight obviously meant something different to whoever fitted the filter you want to remove.
£7 for a spider filter wrench on ebay is money well spent.
If you prime the filter and then have to take the pipe off again you WILL get covered in diesel.
If the truck won't start after you have finished the service look for the fuel line that has dropped down where you can't see it.
Just because there are a couple of pipes that look like fuel lines near the filter they may not be fuel lines.
If you have connected a pipe to the filter and primed it of course there will be diesel coming out of it when you remove it again. (Seems obvious now!).
If something isn't right look for the obvious things first.
Friends can see something straight away that you have missed for the last 4 hours.( Like a black fuel line that has dropped down into a dark corner of the engine bay).
Hope this might help others in the future.
Chris
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