Usable tools for oilfilter change VW T5 2,5 D 130 and a interesting Youtubelink.for T5 owners
I was inspired to try change oilfilter with ratchet and it worked out well.
Tools that I used : Ratchet with linked 1/2”-head (20-30 euro), 13 mm socket, 19mm socket, 32 mm (others may have use for 36 mm socket), used ramp on right front wheel for getting van up so I could get under the van and remove plate under the engine.
Torque wrench 1/4” for the oil plug (30 Nm), big retainer for the oil.
Gloves.
Optional tools , used another smaller torque wrench 1/4” graded to 24 Nm (oilfilter ca 25 Nm), 2 adapters for torque wrench,1/4” to3/8” and one 3/8” to 1/2”
Estimated time : 1-3 hours..
Procedure for this work: Engine should be warmed up. Take away the plate under the engine, 13 mm socket. I used ramp on right front wheel to get access under the car. There is of course better and safer ways to do this part.
The oil drain plug is located on the front of the engine so I took the van off the ramp to get it horizontal. The oilplug could easily be removed when the van is on the ground, so no reason to lift it up. There is also quite lot of room for the oilretainer, but if you have a lowered van that could maybe be an issue. My retainer was about 15 cm high.
Now to the real work, decided to loosen up the oil filter first, to be sure that the tools was suited for this, I have extensions and universal joint in the tool box just in case as it looks very crowded around the oilfilter whitch is located in front of the engine under the servo reservoir on the left side on my van.
In this operation I did not loosen up and disengage anything like the servo reservoir and hoses, just put the tools in place and performed the task.
At first I thought my ½ ratchet would be useless with regards to its length of 28,5 cm (10-11 ”), but it has a linked head and it was no problem to loosen up the oilfilter, then screw it out by hand.
You have to place the ratchet in the position of about 10 a clock, there was little room but enough to loosen the filter. This work will probably be best to do using the left arm at least for the ratchet . Use some gloves also. When I had loosened the oilfilter I removed the 19 mm oilplug,just hoping to have less mess of oil before removal of the oilfilter. You need a retainer around 10 L because there is about 7,5 L oil in the engine.
I do not know if a ratchet of this size without the linked head will work.
While letting the oil dripp out I mounted and tightened the new oilfilter ( and new and oiled O-rings properly attached) with my hand, then tightened it a bit more with the linked ratchet. I decided to see if it was possible to use my little torque wrench, set it up to max 24 Nm and it actually worked, heard the click sound.. I used 2 adapters to fit it to the 32mm socket, my 36 mm socket is of the 3/4” sort and if I had this on the oilfilter I would have to use a third adapter. There is probably more ways to tighten oilfilters, I have done it in other ways on some oilfilters on a Vito. Anyways it worked out this way for me.
I really have to say that it is tricky due to minimal space to get the tools right in place, so for some people it may be a better choice to use extensions. I have not used extensions, only owned this van for 5 months or so and this was the first oilchange..
A new oil plug was mounted (as recommended for every oilchange), torque 30 Nm.
Filled it with 7 L oil of the appropriate quality, itś important on these vans I have heard. Checked the oil level and put in a little more oil till the level was good. Started the engine and let it idle and pump oil up to the oil filter for a couple of minutes. Then stop the engine and check the oil level after some time, refill if needed and remount the plate under the engine.
This work will maybee take a couple of hours the first time depending on your resources, My next time will be a lot faster.
I will use the tools described in this method for the next oil change, but it would be nice with smaller ratchets though.
I use Longlife 507-00 oil but I will change oil after 15000 km or earlier, its my car and I get a lot of oil for the cost of one enginefailure. I also think that 506-01 is good enough but my VAG-dealers recommendation is the 507-00 sort of oil, referring to viscocity propertes.
I recently found some material from
www.bildeler.no regarding repairs on 2004-2009 T5 on Yotube that is relatively newly published. They did oilchange (with extensions) and removed driveshaft, for example. I found it interesting, although they used clamps on suspension springs without saying that it is a dangerous operation and it could be hard to understand the language. It could be tricky to get to their Youtube site from their homepage, link down here will hopefully help for a start.
Published a week ago, AC pump =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3_Q1ayb8lg