Drove my new 996 GT3 home from El Paso Friday. Boy, does this car like to hunt on the road. lol Not wise to ever have a loose grip on the wheel.

Anyway, I am going to change the oil, but the owner's manual doesn't give any directions that I could find. I have changed it on 986/996 motors before, but not a dry sump motor.

Then I was going to pull and replace the filter.

I was just going to warm up the engine and then pull both plugs at the same time. Or should I drain one and then the other? I haven't even been under there yet. Are the drain plugs obvious?

I know overfilling is a no-no, but since you have to have the car running to check the oil (at least electronically), how do you sneak up on the right amount without going over? Add X quarts, then check it?

I am sure there must be a write-up on this somewhere. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks In Advance

 

http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7076

 

Read the article. How much oil is left in the oil filter housing? Anyone have any clever tools for getting it out?

 

Purchase a proper oil filter wrench that will accept a torque wrench as you will need one to properly tighten the filter housing. I removed the engine drain first and let it totally drain and reinstalled plug with new washer before taking plug out of tank. I put paper toweling around filter area to catch any overflow but as I recall when I removed the filter housing there was little oil left in there. After draining and changing filter I added 8 qts and ran engine to check gauge and just added more until I got a near full reading. It took approximately 9.5 qts. I found the dipstick hard to gauge with clean oil so I'm trusting the electronic gauge.

 

The biggest aid would indeed have been an oil filter wrench. I am used to it being hand tightened on my boxsters. I ended up using a band wrench as the only thing that worked.

Anyone have a part # / source for an oil filter wrench that works? I have a shallow cup one (with a hole for a socket), but it slips and so is the wrong size I fear.

 

http://e-partssales.com/Merchant2/me...e=997GT3engine

 

Thanks!