How do you change oil on 1969 vw bug?

Answer 1

on the bottom of the engine there is a round plate with like 8 little bolts around the rim and 1 big one in the middle. to drain the oil remove the big one. to replace the oil screen (Filter) remove the small ones after you've drained the oil. Put the screen and the plate back on and put the big oil plug bolt back in. Then fill the engine with oil. I think it takes 2.5 quarts but I'm not positive about that. You put the oil in next to the generator, you can't miss it. It's a very easy job. about 30 minutes.

This is a very good description. I'm going to add a few things... Everyone knows Volkswagens leak oil, right? (The rumor, when these cars were still being made, was that if Volkswagen accidentally made a car that didn't leak, they took it to a special room and drilled holes in the bottom of it.) If you want yours to not leak oil, at least around the oil strainer cover, put the car on jackstands and crawl under with a pair of vise-grips. Remove the cheesy little acorn nuts and throw them away, then unscrew the studs they were on from your engine case. Go to Home Depot with one of the studs and buy six stainless-steel metric bolts--IIRC the size you want is 6mm x anything between 20mm and 30mm. They have a little measurer sitting there you can check the stud size and thread pitch, but I bought the ones I used in my engine from there. Also get six split lockwashers. If you have a Bus that's 1972 or newer or any vintage of 411, be sure to use only 20mm bolts--anything longer and you risk hitting the camshaft. Volkswagen changed the oil strainer cover plate in 1974. They found out people were not cleaning the oil strainer during oil changes (mainly because the number-one cause of oil leaks is removing then replacing the notoriously-easy-to-strip acorn nuts), so they removed the drain plug. Now, the only way to get the oil out of the car is to remove the oil strainer, and the theory was that as long as you had it out anyway, you'd throw it in solvent for a few minutes. You've figured out the problem with this bright idea, of course: you will get DRENCHED in oil every time you change it. This is a historical note and not one of significance because the first thing the dealer's tech did when the car came in for its first oil change was to throw the new-model strainer cover in the trash and replace it with an old-model cover. What's NOT a historical note is the need to clean the strainer. You gotta do it, folks. Take the cover off, pull the strainer out and clean it in solvent. And please note: even though, right now, gasoline is cheaper than mineral spirits, I beg of you to NOT try to save money by washing parts in gas. It's dangerous for you, the environment, and (if you don't get it all out of the strainer) your car. Please wash this in mineral spirits. Oil capacity is 2500ml. Two and a half quarts is close enough.