I know there are various devices to suction out the oil from the top rather than from the bottom. Anyone who has one and has experience using it I’d like to hear your impressions. Currently I am still under warranty for maintenance, but I want more than once a year oil changes.

Thanks folks!

 

Both manual and pneumatic oil siphons I use work well. No need to raise the vehicle or remove the lower engine cover/tray.

Be sure to purchase the correct tool for removing the oil filter housing cover so it doesn't distort.

 

Mityvac

 

this. works great, easy to use, nice and clean. I have the manual version and it works great even though I have a compressor, just one less thing to bring out.

 

+1 on MityVac. Easy to use, no mess. Pays for itself the first time you use it.

 

+3 on mightyvac....3 changes so far. No issue.

 

+4 Mightyvac…literally the easiest and quickest car to change the oil on I have ever had.
90mm 15 flute oil filter socket.

 

Another upvote for mitivac, used it a couple times on the f type and a Mazda, my friend also used it for a motorcycle.

 

I also have a Mityvac, Model # 7201. It's the one with the manual pump handle as I don't have compressed air available in my garage. I just looked on Amazon and the price has gone up considerably. I paid just under $100 for mine a little over a year ago. I see Amazon has some "knock off" extractor pumps for a little less money. Just be sure you get one with enough capacity to hold all the oil from the sump which will be just under 7 quarts. It's actually a pleasure to change the oil & filter on the Jaguar, it's a very surgical procedure and easy to do. Especially for someone who spent the last 50 years crawling underneath my vehicles to do it the old fashioned way.

And of course you need the correct size wrench to remove the cap on the filter housing. And I highly recommend a good quality torque wrench, and one designed for low level torque readings and not one made to torque lug nuts with a 2 foot handle that goes up to 150 ft/lbs. The housing cap requires 25 Nm or 18.44 ft lbs. and you will get you best accuracy with a wrench that goes up to 50 ft lbs or so. There are torque wrenches designed for bicycle use that read lower values. They are also useful for things like spark plugs and drain plugs on vehicles that have a conventional plug on the oil pan.. I have a cheap one and it was hard to use and read so I finally bit the bullet and bought this one:


I like it because it can easily be switched to read different measurements like Nm, ft/lbs or inch/lbs and comes with a certificate of calibration. It isn't inexpensive but good tools seldom are.

 

What size is wrench do you need for the filter housing? Is it a std metric or do you need something odd?

 

Steelman 06128 from Amazon is what I got.

Discussion here:


https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/f...source-209637/

 

Another vote for the Mityvac with the manual pump. Easiest oil change I've ever done on a car in almost 40 years of vehicle ownership and maintenance.

 

I see there’s a new more expensive version of the filter wrench I got…