DynaGlide
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I've always done oil changes on my Subarus because the filter is under the hood and I put a Fumoto valve underneath in place of the drain plug. It's too easy and I don't enjoy waiting around for someone else to do it for me. I don't normally bother doing anything for the wife's car besides air filters because they're a giant ripoff at the dealer.
She's up for an oil change and they wanted $90 or so to do her Pacifica. Not totally unreasonable but I decided to look into it and sure enough her car has the filter under the hood like mine. I kept seeing fluid extractors mentioned on Pacifica forums. My current Subaru doesn't have the Fumoto valve yet since I bought it last year and have driven a whopping 5k miles in 15 months.
I went with a Mityvac 7201 and will probably do her van this weekend. Between the filter under the hood, the mityvac, and an oil temp sensor to make sure it isn't too hot for the Mityvac in both vehicles I'm actually looking forward to doing oil changes again. Slide the mityvac tube down the fill line, give it a few pumps, loosen the filter, then go back inside. When it's time to empty it you push a button the other way and it can dispense the fluid back into the empty containers of oil. Pretty nifty.
Anyway, wish I would've bought one years ago. I have a couple small capacity fluid extractors I use for bleeding brakes but could've really used a large capacity extractor on my motorcycle back when I was working on it often.
Matt
She's up for an oil change and they wanted $90 or so to do her Pacifica. Not totally unreasonable but I decided to look into it and sure enough her car has the filter under the hood like mine. I kept seeing fluid extractors mentioned on Pacifica forums. My current Subaru doesn't have the Fumoto valve yet since I bought it last year and have driven a whopping 5k miles in 15 months.
I went with a Mityvac 7201 and will probably do her van this weekend. Between the filter under the hood, the mityvac, and an oil temp sensor to make sure it isn't too hot for the Mityvac in both vehicles I'm actually looking forward to doing oil changes again. Slide the mityvac tube down the fill line, give it a few pumps, loosen the filter, then go back inside. When it's time to empty it you push a button the other way and it can dispense the fluid back into the empty containers of oil. Pretty nifty.
Anyway, wish I would've bought one years ago. I have a couple small capacity fluid extractors I use for bleeding brakes but could've really used a large capacity extractor on my motorcycle back when I was working on it often.
Matt
