How do I change the oil in a 1991 Honda Accord?
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Exactly the same way as every other car. Remove drain plug. let oil drain. replace drain plug. replace oil filter. Fill engine with oil.
get under car
remove drain bolt from oil pan
allow oil to all run out
put back in drain plug
remove old oil filter
put on new oil filter
add new oil
drive
remove drain bolt from oil pan
allow oil to all run out
put back in drain plug
remove old oil filter
put on new oil filter
add new oil
drive
I don't know where or what the drain bolt look like or what tools to remove it with. That's what I'm asking for help in.
I know the general procedure ofcourse, but thanks for those who gave me it.
I know the general procedure ofcourse, but thanks for those who gave me it.
OK, go to the Honda Dealership and pick up an oil filter (Honda filter is recommended, but any other brand except Fram is OK) and a new Al press washer (required every couple oil changes). Then go to an auto parts store and get four quarts of either Valvoline Max-life, or Castrol High-Mileage (it?s a 91, and has plenty of miles right? High mileage oil doesn?t burn away as quickly.) and a filter (not Fram) if you didn?t get one at the dealership.
Then drive up on your ramps, take your 17 mm wrench, and remove the drain plug from the bottom of the engine. When it slows to a drip every couple of seconds, put the plug back in using the new press washer.
Then you need to reach up behind the engine to get at the old filter turn it counter-clockwise. You might need an oil filter wrench to remove it, but you shouldn?t. Oil will spill out, (unless it?s a FRAM, because their anti-drainback valves don?t work), so watch out.
Fill up the oil filter with oil. Just pour it in up to the top, and it will be absorbed by the filter media. You want it about half full, so it won?t spill when you reinstall the filter. DO NOT use a filter wrench to tighten it. Just tighten it as well at you can by hand.
Refill the engine with the remainder of the four quarts, and start the engine. The oil pressure light should turn off within a few seconds. If it doesn?t, TURN THE ENGINE OFF and check for leaks. Make sure the filter is on properly and the drain plug is in place.
Good luck!
Then drive up on your ramps, take your 17 mm wrench, and remove the drain plug from the bottom of the engine. When it slows to a drip every couple of seconds, put the plug back in using the new press washer.
Then you need to reach up behind the engine to get at the old filter turn it counter-clockwise. You might need an oil filter wrench to remove it, but you shouldn?t. Oil will spill out, (unless it?s a FRAM, because their anti-drainback valves don?t work), so watch out.
Fill up the oil filter with oil. Just pour it in up to the top, and it will be absorbed by the filter media. You want it about half full, so it won?t spill when you reinstall the filter. DO NOT use a filter wrench to tighten it. Just tighten it as well at you can by hand.
Refill the engine with the remainder of the four quarts, and start the engine. The oil pressure light should turn off within a few seconds. If it doesn?t, TURN THE ENGINE OFF and check for leaks. Make sure the filter is on properly and the drain plug is in place.
Good luck!
You would need to pay me $3000, the cost of a new engine, to put one of thoes things on my car. All you need is some piece of debris to knock it open on the road, and OOPS!!! Time for a new engine!!!
I've been turning a wrench to change my oil for 13 years. It works pretty well.
Al = the chemical symbol for aluminum 
It Honda recommends that you change the washer every time you change the oil, but I just do it every other time. It seals the oil plug without it needing to be tightened too much. Overtightening is very rough on the threads of the oil pan. The washer deforms a bit every time it's tightened, so it needs to be replaced every few times.
It Honda recommends that you change the washer every time you change the oil, but I just do it every other time. It seals the oil plug without it needing to be tightened too much. Overtightening is very rough on the threads of the oil pan. The washer deforms a bit every time it's tightened, so it needs to be replaced every few times.
Originally posted by: Thegonagle
Al = the chemical symbol for aluminum
It Honda recommends that you change the washer every time you change the oil, but I just do it every other time. It seals the oil plug without it needing to be tightened too much. Overtightening is very rough on the threads of the oil pan. The washer deforms a bit every time it's tightened, so it needs to be replaced every few times.
Heheh. Big i = I and small l = l.
in most cases, the honda OE is a fram.
i admit i hang out at bobistheoilguy's site a lot but they can't really pin down anything too terrible on fram. yes they're too much money for what you get but it's not going to make your engine implode or something. it should work fine in this application (ph3593a or 6811).
Fram uses paper/cardboard for a end gasket, the pleats sometimes don't meet up, and even then they use so much glue sometimes it is loss in the filter. NEVER USE A FRAM FILTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Filter test 1
Filter test 2
Filter test 3
You can get a Tech2000(walmart), STP (Autozone), or purolator (Advance) that will be cheaper and better than Fram.
And yes some of Honda's filters are made by fram now, so I would not use them unless they are the OEM types that are made in Japan.
Someone emailed this to me, thought it was appropriate...
Oil Change Instructions For Women
1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches
3000 miles since last oil change.
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a
properly maintained vehicle.
Money spent:
Oil Change $20.00
Coffee $1.00
Total $21.00.
-------------------------------------
Oil Change instructions for Men:
-----------------------------------------
1) Go to auto parts store and write a check for
$50.00 for oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scented tree.
2) Discover that the used oil container is full so instead of taking it back to auto store to recycle, dump in hole in back yard.
3) Open a beer and drink it.
4) Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car. Jack car up.
6) In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
7) Place drain pan under engine. > >
8) Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
9) Give up and use crescent wrench.
10) Unscrew drain plug.
11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: Gets hot oil on you in process.
12) Clean up mess.
13) Have another beer while watching oil drain.
14) Look for oil filter wrench.
15) Give up; poke oil filter with screwdriver and twist off.
16) Have a Beer.
17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Finish oil change tomorrow.
18) Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18.
20) Beer. No, drank it all yesterday.
21) Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
22) Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface.
23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
24) Remember drain plug from step 11.
25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
26) Discover that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard, along with drain plug.
27) Drink beer.
28) Uncover hole and sift for drain plug.
29) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor.
30) Drink beer.
31) Slip with wrench tightening drain plug and bang knuckles on frame.
32) Bang head on floorboards in reaction to step 31.
33) Begin cussing fit.
34) Throw wrench.
35) Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December (1992).
36) Beer.
37) Clean up hands and forehead and bandage as required to stop blood flow.
38) Beer.
39) Beer.
40) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.
41) Beer.
42) Lower car from jack stands.
43) Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
44) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during step 23.
45) Beer.
46) Test drive car.
47) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence.
48) Car gets impounded.
49) Make bail.
50) Get car from impound yard.
Money spent:
Parts $50.00
Beer $25.00
DUI $2500.00
Impound fee $75.00
Bail $1500.00
Total-- $4150.00
But, by golly, you know the job was done right
Oil Change Instructions For Women
1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches
3000 miles since last oil change.
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a
properly maintained vehicle.
Money spent:
Oil Change $20.00
Coffee $1.00
Total $21.00.
-------------------------------------
Oil Change instructions for Men:
-----------------------------------------
1) Go to auto parts store and write a check for
$50.00 for oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and a scented tree.
2) Discover that the used oil container is full so instead of taking it back to auto store to recycle, dump in hole in back yard.
3) Open a beer and drink it.
4) Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car. Jack car up.
6) In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
7) Place drain pan under engine. > >
8) Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
9) Give up and use crescent wrench.
10) Unscrew drain plug.
11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: Gets hot oil on you in process.
12) Clean up mess.
13) Have another beer while watching oil drain.
14) Look for oil filter wrench.
15) Give up; poke oil filter with screwdriver and twist off.
16) Have a Beer.
17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Finish oil change tomorrow.
18) Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18.
20) Beer. No, drank it all yesterday.
21) Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
22) Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface.
23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
24) Remember drain plug from step 11.
25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
26) Discover that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard, along with drain plug.
27) Drink beer.
28) Uncover hole and sift for drain plug.
29) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor.
30) Drink beer.
31) Slip with wrench tightening drain plug and bang knuckles on frame.
32) Bang head on floorboards in reaction to step 31.
33) Begin cussing fit.
34) Throw wrench.
35) Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December (1992).
36) Beer.
37) Clean up hands and forehead and bandage as required to stop blood flow.
38) Beer.
39) Beer.
40) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.
41) Beer.
42) Lower car from jack stands.
43) Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
44) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during step 23.
45) Beer.
46) Test drive car.
47) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence.
48) Car gets impounded.
49) Make bail.
50) Get car from impound yard.
Money spent:
Parts $50.00
Beer $25.00
DUI $2500.00
Impound fee $75.00
Bail $1500.00
Total-- $4150.00
But, by golly, you know the job was done right
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??? WTF? it sticks out like maybe twice as much as a normal bolt, which isn't much. anything that crunches into it that high is going to leave you with trouble no matter what. not to mention most cars have it slightly angled on the inside so it doesn't really stick out at all
the hose keeps it easy and clean and well, you don't have to change washers .They may be made in the same factory, etc., but I'm pretty sure they are NOT the same filter. Honda would not put up with that crap. Maybe I'll buy a Honda filter and a Fram 3593a and cut them open for the sake of curiousity.
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Quote by Supahfreak:
Oil Change Instructions For Women
1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches
3000 miles since last oil change.
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a
properly maintained vehicle.
Money spent:
Oil Change $20.00
Coffee $1.00
Total $21.00.
ENDQUOTE
Too bad a lot of times those "properly maintained vehicles" are not properly maintained at all... my sister got her oil changed at one and they changed the oil by using an old used filter (no remanufactured and cleaned) and about 2-3 quarts of oil.... had my dad not been a car nut back in his day and stress checking the oil in the car OFTEN... she'd be dealing with a new engine for the car
Oil Change Instructions For Women
1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches
3000 miles since last oil change.
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a
properly maintained vehicle.
Money spent:
Oil Change $20.00
Coffee $1.00
Total $21.00.
ENDQUOTE
Too bad a lot of times those "properly maintained vehicles" are not properly maintained at all... my sister got her oil changed at one and they changed the oil by using an old used filter (no remanufactured and cleaned) and about 2-3 quarts of oil.... had my dad not been a car nut back in his day and stress checking the oil in the car OFTEN... she'd be dealing with a new engine for the car
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