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Changing Oil Filter / Checking and Changing Spark Plugs

MA-23prose procedure
Continued from MA-22

Changing Oil Filter

  1. 1
    Remove oil filter with Tool.
    WARNING: Be careful not to burn yourself, as the engine and the engine oil are hot.
  2. 2
    Before installing new oil filter, clean the oil filter mounting surface on cylinder block, and coat the rubber seal of oil filter with a little engine oil.
    Illustration of a hand cleaning the oil filter mounting surface and handling the oil filter on the cylinder block.
    SMA010
  3. 3
    Screw in the oil filter until a slight resistance is felt, then tighten an additional 2/3 turn.
    Illustration of an oil filter being screwed onto the block with an arrow indicating '2/3 of a turn' beyond the point of slight resistance.
    SMA229B
  4. 4
    Add engine oil.
    Refer to Changing Engine Oil.

Checking and Changing Spark Plugs

  1. 1
    Disconnect ignition wires from spark plugs at boot. Do not pull on the wire.
    Two side-by-side hand illustrations labeled 'O.K.' (left) and 'N.G.' (right) showing the correct and incorrect way to disconnect ignition wires from spark plugs at the boot, near the NISSAN-marked rocker cover.
    SMA302C
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Changing Engine Oil

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