oil filter on 94 blazer????

I know it is a stupid question but we just bought a s-10 blazer husband is as work so I was flushing the radiator, changing spark plugs and wires and was going to get the things to change the oil. But I can't see the oil filter!!! I see the oil pan but I have looked every where on the sides of the motor in the front and in the back. :disappoin

Check under your front bumper. 4x4 models have a remote filter that is located more or less on the driver's side behind a little flap in the forward splash guard. You won't see it until you remove the 1/2" bolt and pull the door open.

When you change the filter try to stay away from Fram!!! Use a WIX or AC Delco. Napa Golds aren't bad. But you also don't have to spend $10 on a filter either. Remember that Napa filters are made by WIX.

I found the oil filter! Never in my 20 yrs of working on cars have I ever seen the oil filter on top of the motor behind the headlight!!! How are you supposed to change the filter and keep it from running down the finderwell?! Oh well I'll figure it out Thanks you two for your help :icon16:

so obvious its un obvious, huh? Dont let it jump out at ya. he he he :P

OK I will be honest, I have never actually changed my oil, I just take the cap off and keep pouring oil in until it over flows, and I keep letting over flow until it looks clean. I let the dog clean up the mess, he seems to like it, I mean for the money I pay for the mobil1 the damn dog better enjoy it all, although I think he might be going blind????? Couldn't be the oil right???? Anything he doesn't lick up I figure I can dump right into the stream behind my house, I mean it is synthetic and cleans engines so it must clean the stream too??? haha sorry guys I am wicked bored and I understand if this gets deleted I am just being a idiot and I don't condone or recommend anything I just said!!!!!!!!!

There is nothing in synthetic oil if it is not used that is overtly baneful. However, the release of any kind of oil into open streams or storm sewers is very illegal. Again, this is not because that there is anything wong with virgin synthetic, but combustion by-products that are present in the oil once used. That stuff is *toxic* after a few thousand miles. DO yourself, your dog and the environment a favor and get the oil leak fixed ASAP, man. Please. Also some synthetics are petroleum derived. Only group 4-5 synthetics are inert. Groups 3 "synthetic" is just as bad as dumping crude. Just....don't do that, man.

There is nothing in synthetic oil if it is not used that is overtly baneful. However, the release of any kind of oil into open streams or storm sewers is very illegal. Again, this is not because that there is anything wong with virgin synthetic, but combustion by-products that are present in the oil once used. That stuff is *toxic* after a few thousand miles. DO yourself, your dog and the environment a favor and get the oil leak fixed ASAP, man. Please. Also some synthetics are petroleum derived. Only group 4-5 synthetics are inert. Groups 3 "synthetic" is just as bad as dumping crude. Just....don't do that, man.
I was just kiddddiiiiiiiinnnnnnnngggggggggggg!!!!!!! I would never let any of that happen!!!!!! I swear!!! I was just making a joke. Nothing about what I wrote should ever be done!

haha well i dont have any story to share about feeding oil to my dog but.....i remove the air intake assembly and its pretty easy to get to the filter..ive never had much trouble with oil runnin anywhere, if i remember i put a rag under the filter and that catches it.

It's cool if you are joking. I am just covering our a$$es in case anyone reading this thought it was alright. I used to have a dog that would eat rocks and broken glass...he would just chew it all up, all day long. Well, until he didn't have any more teeth left that is. He *ate* the sheet metal duct off the side of the house for the dryer vent. This dog was insane, and I pondered feeding it gunpowder just to see how much more mean and stupid he could get. :D

hahahaha, ive got a friend with a dog like that-you can feed him rocks. if you actually have a piece of food and hold it over his head while hes sittin down, he'll follow it like all dogs, except this one will fall over backwards if you move it far enough back.

My Male Boxer likes to eat frogs!!!!!!!! He got poisoned once from a frog. He also got into a fight with a horse and won!!! But the horse did bite him and he got some rare skin infection that lasted almost 2 years. My female boxer has drank oil by accident when the guy next door to where I used to live was changing the oil in his Harley and he turned his back and she was slurping!

I found the oil filter! Never in my 20 yrs of working on cars have I ever seen the oil filter on top of the motor behind the headlight!!! How are you supposed to change the filter and keep it from running down the finderwell?! Oh well I'll figure it out Thanks you two for your help :icon16:

What head light was it behind?

What head light was it behind?

The driver's side.

The driver's side.

Weird, someone must have installed a special aftermarket setup for yours.

Mine is stright underneath the front bumper.

Nah thats the stock setup (for the 94's at least, ive got a buddy with the same thing). Pretty much behind the headlight next to the air filter. Maybe the second gen is different?

Nah thats the stock setup (for the 94's at least, ive got a buddy with the same thing). Pretty much behind the headlight next to the air filter. Maybe the second gen is different?

Really?

Can anyone reference this?

1st gens have it right behind the drivers head light, its a factory set-up, all original.

Sweet, never knew that.

I found the oil filter! Never in my 20 yrs of working on cars have I ever seen the oil filter on top of the motor behind the headlight!!! How are you supposed to change the filter and keep it from running down the finderwell?! Oh well I'll figure it out Thanks you two for your help :icon16:


Just stuff some rags under it. If your careful, you can change it without spilling a drop, if you are somewhat careful, it won't get past the rags.

Since it is in a super easy local, it is a good idea to fill up the oil filter prior to installation (not plum full, but as full as you can get it without making a mess), this way your engine doesn't have to prime the filter prior to pressuring up since it has to pump oil through those long lines. This is actually a good practice on any oil filter you can hold upright.

Another way to prime your engine just after an oil change(the method I have always used) is to disconnect the wire leading to the ignition coil, turn the engine over for about 5 seconds or until I see the oil pressure guage show pressure. Reconnect the coil, and start it up. You never run dry this way.

Another way to prime your engine just after an oil change(the method I have always used) is to disconnect the wire leading to the ignition coil, turn the engine over for about 5 seconds or until I see the oil pressure guage show pressure. Reconnect the coil, and start it up. You never run dry this way.

What about the gas the injector is spraying in? Raw gas not being burnt and going down into the crankcase can't be that great.

I have never had a problem, don't forget you are starting this right after you prime it, so whatever is sprayed in there won't really have time to get past the rings and into the engine, so it won't hurt it, because as soon as you start it, your burning it. If you really want to feel safe and assured, for fuel injected models '87 and up, press the gas pedal all the way to the floor, this puts the ECM into flood clear mode, and it stops the injectors from pulsing open, or pull the ECM fuse (A or B), and you'll also stop the injectors from firing.

I have never had a problem, don't forget you are starting this right after you prime it, so whatever is sprayed in there won't really have time to get past the rings and into the engine, so it won't hurt it, because as soon as you start it, your burning it. If you really want to feel safe and assured, for fuel injected models '87 and up, press the gas pedal all the way to the floor, this puts the ECM into flood clear mode, and it stops the injectors from pulsing open, or pull the ECM fuse (A or B), and you'll also stop the injectors from firing.

This is true or you could just fill the filter up with oil with this year and model and avoid doing it at all.

Seems like a lot of messing around and unhooking this and that for a 3 second prime when screwing the filter on and starting the engine normally will never hurt a thing.

Yes, you could fill the oil filter (which I do too), but especially on the 1st gen trucks(my '93 long lines) and even 2nd gen trucks (not as bad) you still have the oil cooler lines and passageways in the engine that are empty, that leaves you engine with no oil for a few seconds. Not to mention the 2nd gens, you have the oil filter horizontal so you really can't fill it much as opposed to the 1st gens vertical filter, you can fill it full. Its not hard at all to do, and I have no dry starts.