holy shit, tried chang'in oil myself and it took almost 3 hrs :P

DIY, Changing engine oil - for Lancer CK2


Perquisites:
a) warm up the car for few mins.
b) Jack up the car - if you need more space
c) safety first: apply a support for the jack-wood, lock up wheels using stone blocks/wood
d) get some cloth to work with oil,  cover hands with gloves, safety eye glasses
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0) Warm up the car for few mins.
1) Remove the engine oil cap under the hood.
2) Remove oil pan nut (using #17 wrench): Counter clock wise to loosen.
3) Give it some to drain the oil
4) Remove the oil filter: Counter clock wise to loosen.
5) Give it some time to drain the oil
6) Get the new filter -> apply some oil on the rubber gasket -> now ready to fix
7) Tighten the new filter. -> turn clockwise to tighten
8) Tighten the nut. -> turn clockwise to tighten
9) Fill with new oil - Check the oil reading before filling with all in the can.
10) If the oil level is OK, start the engine.
11) Give it sometime, then Check beneath for oil leaks from filter or nut.
12) DONE!



Note: The video of DarkDragonWing about Lancer USDM is wrong. He rotates to clockwise to loosen which wont work for JDM Lancers.

When I was buying my Lancer i didn knew about ECUs aka. Engine control units - a small computing unit resides on modern cars (cars after 1996 in JDM) its also known as vehicle computer which amazed me. I got more excited after hearing this word 'vehicle computer' which seems related to computing because of my passion towards computing related stuff and also being an IT guy in profession. So I was thoroughly researched more about this subject. Had a great curiously to find out whether my car has such computer on its! (since its 1997 mitsu lancer). I directly went to my neighborhood mechanic uncle and asked to do a OBD scan for my car....And whoohoo! i was so lucky, it had a OBD2 port which is the latest version of OBD update to date (but later i got to know it was using a sucking protocol called MUT)

Then i wanted to buy a scanner like the uncle had but he said "its a professional one So this costs like 1lack putha!` :-( disappointing! then i was looking for a simple tool which i could use to read the ecu of my lancer. and found out there;s a elm327 bluetooth device which comes handy with a nice android application called `torque`. I ordered it from ebay. After lots of tries it appeared that particular tool isn't has the support for Mitusubishi MUT protocol which was the same one used in my car ecu. Again disappointing !

Well! after lots of reading on Evoforums, i was able to find a tool called "EVOScan" which seem fit to read the lancer ecu. And the tool was quite expensive (7000 in LKR) and i had to wait till i have some money in the pocket!
Finally it received it in last week after long waiting and glad i could read the car ecu with it, yey! :-)

Its so fun to read the car ECU, which shows us the readings of car sensors and lots of other useful information. In the other hand we can use EvoScan software to write into the ECU as well; which is very dangerous (for example using that evoscan write Cable (1.3U) we can change the fuel + air ratio used in internal combustion engine, so it could blow up even LOL! nothing so funny thats why i ordered the Evo scan cable which only lets me to read the ECU! :)

FYI: This is the cable i used: EvoScan 1.3D cable this is suitable if you have a Lancer CK2A MX Touring; 1997 YOM car

Here are some screenshots of EvoScan which shows the power of this tool. 

After lots of hard work I was lucky enough to buy my first car last week. I was searching and investigating lots of Cars! (well i m pretty sure i hv checked more than 50 cars engine started and bonnet opened xD) around Colombo area with a great deal of support from one of my uncle who is a a relation and a former Mechanic at Toyota Lanka.

And finally I decided to buy this charming (atleast for me xD) Lancer CK2 comes with the Evo5 bodykit installed to it. :)

Spec: http://specs.cars-directory.net/mitsubishi/lancer/1.5_MX_touring_11872.html

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PS: Happened a lil accident near a three way junction at Bambalapit hit with a damned pizza motor bike :/ Front bumper, bonnet, 1 fog lamp, 1 signal lamp and 1 head lamp got damaged by this. Luckily I had setup a full insurance for my Car so got full claim for everything. But not to mention the big amount of time I had to spent in garages and insurance offices :/ it was a (sucking indeed) but a great experience after all ..


Never-mind! all is well back again. Here is a picture taken after the recovery :)