Flushing the engine on a 2001 Dodge Neon is a decided habitude to rid the engine of elderly oil deposits and other harmful debris. Tighten the drain plug a meagre threads with your fingers fundamental, then snug it with the combination wrench.8. Loosen the oil filter, the metal cylinder located succeeding to the oil pan, using the oil filter wrench. Live on loosening the oil filter with your participation, until it is comp from the engine.
Instructions
1. Expansive the Neon's hood and remove the oil filler cap on top of the engine. Carefully pour in the bottle of engine flush chemical. Brisk the oil filler cap and flying start the Neon's engine.
2. Concede the Neon to jog for the immensity of hour specified on the engine flush chemical's container -- typically five minutes. This allows the chemical to circulate down the abundant oil operation.
3. Shut the Neon's engine off.
4. Hoist the front of the vehicle using the floor jack, and secure it with jack stands.
5. Slide the extract pan unbefitting the vehicle and crawl underneath the front of the vehicle. Distance the bleed pan directly below the oil remove plug on the oil pan, the broad metal pan on the backside of the engine.
6. Loosen and remove the bleed plug, using the combination wrench. Espy as oil flows from the engine into the empty pan.
7. Re-install the drain plug once the flow of oil has slowed to blameless a scarce drips. The engine flush, unlike other fluid flushes, does not resort to a mechanism to constraint the decrepit fluid and debris elsewhere. But, you Testament avail a chemical that you pour into the oil transaction and sanction to jog the exact pathway that the oil runs, loosening up the debris in the pathways. The engine oil flush should happen along with a public oil modify.
Situate the mature filter into the filter pan for disposal.
9. Lay a tiny proportions of cutting edge oil on your index finger. Rub your index finger around the rubber gasket at the base of the new oil filter. This prevents the gasket from sticking when tightening the filter.
10. Tighten the new oil filter until it is snug against its base, then tighten the filter one-quarter of a turn after it is snug against the base using an oil filter wrench.
11. Pull the drain pan from under the vehicle carefully. Remove the jack stands, then slowly lower the Neon to the ground.
12. Open the oil filler cap and place a funnel into the opening. Pour 4-1/2 quarts of oil into the engine via the funnel. Remove the funnel, tighten the filler cap and start the Neon's engine. Allow the engine to run for about two minutes.
13. Remove the oil dipstick from the front of the engine, wipe it with a clean shop cloth and then reinsert it. Remove the dipstick and check the oil level against the recommended level in the Neon's owners manual. Repeat step 11 as needed to add more oil to the system.
14. Close the Neon's hood.
15. Place the funnel in one of the empty oil containers and pour the old oil from the drain pan, into the bottle. Repeat this step until all of the old oil is out of the drain pan and inside the empty oil bottles. Dispose of the used oil properly, many auto parts stores recycle old fluids free of charge.
