ghostrider6630
Member Since: 29 Sep 2014
Location: Swaffham. Norfolk
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So doing my first ever D3 service tomorrow
Got the kit from advanced factors, got my handy haynes manual.
Looks straight forward.
Q is and problems i should look out for not in the manual?
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 14th Nov 2020 8:39 pm |
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buns
Member Since: 12 Oct 2020
Location: yorkshire
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It’s in the manual but many people don’t do it.
Put the oil filter in correctly locate it.
Replace the pollen filter the correct way up,
Good luck.
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| 14th Nov 2020 8:46 pm |
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Wyn
Member Since: 15 Jun 2015
Location: Cardiff
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The first thing i do is loosen the oil filter cover until i can here the air going in/oil draining out.
By the time i get the plates off to get at the drain plug it has emptied.
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| 14th Nov 2020 9:06 pm |
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M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
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It is imperative that you fit the oil filter correctly, there is a nipple on the bottom Of the filter that must fit into an hole in the bottom of the filter housing Before refitting The filter top, regardless of how Mr, Haynes Tells you how to do it.
Don’t forget to put the sump plug back in before filling With oil or trying to 
Read Bodseys Brake bible in the WIKI at the top of the page on how to adjust the hand brake, another job that is essential to prevent very expensive repairs and is very, very often neglected. It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
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| 14th Nov 2020 9:28 pm |
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ghostrider6630
Member Since: 29 Sep 2014
Location: Swaffham. Norfolk
Posts: 144
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Great tips guys thanks, also done the brakes a while and bodys brake bible great help
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| 14th Nov 2020 10:16 pm |
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