Cirrusly
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It was time for my first oil change. Easy enough. Any dummy can do this.
Remove the drain bolt, drain the oil, replace the bolt, remove and replace the oil filter (which was REALLY tight by the way), take two bolts out of the transmission oil filter cover, remove and replace the transmission oil filter, and replace the cover. Simple. Anybody can do it. Yeah, right. Except for an idiot that doesn't pay attention.....
If you don't pay attention to which part of the oil filter cover goes up it CAN be installed upside down. To the defense of all idiots like me there is very little difference between "up and down" and there's no mention in the service manual about this either. If you look closely where the cover mounts to the NC you'll see that there is a small lip on the bottom, and if you look at the back of the cover you'll see that the bottom of the cover has virtually no lip. IF you're an idiot like me and you install the cover upside down the top lip of the cover will catch on the protrusion from the case, and when you tighten the cover down you're going to hear this awful "SNAP" which means you just snapped a piece off of your cover and now you get to buy a new one (+- $55 USD).
The pictures below should explain this better than my ramblings. I did learn a few other things that I'll pass along:
Remove the drain bolt, drain the oil, replace the bolt, remove and replace the oil filter (which was REALLY tight by the way), take two bolts out of the transmission oil filter cover, remove and replace the transmission oil filter, and replace the cover. Simple. Anybody can do it. Yeah, right. Except for an idiot that doesn't pay attention.....
If you don't pay attention to which part of the oil filter cover goes up it CAN be installed upside down. To the defense of all idiots like me there is very little difference between "up and down" and there's no mention in the service manual about this either. If you look closely where the cover mounts to the NC you'll see that there is a small lip on the bottom, and if you look at the back of the cover you'll see that the bottom of the cover has virtually no lip. IF you're an idiot like me and you install the cover upside down the top lip of the cover will catch on the protrusion from the case, and when you tighten the cover down you're going to hear this awful "SNAP" which means you just snapped a piece off of your cover and now you get to buy a new one (+- $55 USD).
The pictures below should explain this better than my ramblings. I did learn a few other things that I'll pass along:
- The service manual recommends that you replace the rubber gasket that's on the back of the cover when you change the filter.
- There are no torque specs in the service manual for the transmission oil filter cover bolts
- The transmission oil filter bolts take a 7mm socket
- I ordered the replacement cover from my local dealer. They told me that overnight shipping from Honda was very inexpensive, and if the order was placed by 5pm EST there was a very good chance that the part was going to be here the next day. My order was placed at 4:30pm yesterday and it was here by noon today for <$10 shipping.