By Dad, How Do I?
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PLEASE NOTE: I only used that scissor jack to get a better shot with the camera.
Use ramps or jack stands if you are going to be under any vehicle.
NEVER EVER get under a vehicle supported by just a scissor jack!
I want you all to live long and prosperous lives!
Love,
Rob
How to change your oil.
After driving the vehicle for 10 minutes to warm it up, come back and check the oil filter as well as the oil level. You may need to tighten the oil filter with an oil filter wrench.
Supplies;
Oil Filter, Oil Filter wrench, Oil, Oil drain pan, Funnel
Transcript provided by YouTube:
00:00
hey kids so today i’m going to show you
00:03
how to change your oil uh in one of my
00:06
earliest videos i said i wasn’t going to
00:08
show you how to change your oil because
00:09
it’s not something i normally do
00:11
myself i just don’t think it’s a good
00:12
use of my time but enough people asked
00:14
me
00:15
uh how to do it so i thought i’ll at
00:16
least at least walk you through it and
00:18
as i did it i’ve already done it
00:21
as i did it it reminded me why i don’t
00:23
do it because there
00:24
you know there’s a lot to it and the
00:28
price
00:28
by the time you buy the filter because
00:30
you need filter you need the oil
00:32
you need the something to catch it in uh
00:35
it’s just not
00:35
i don’t think it’s a good use of my time
00:37
but um but it is
00:39
there is a sense of accomplishment when
00:40
you’re done so i don’t want to take that
00:42
away from you so i thought i’d at least
00:43
just show you how to do it
00:45
uh but you know you can usually find an
00:48
oil change for 30 or 40 dollars again
00:50
you just got to be careful when you go
00:51
in there because they
00:53
a lot of times they’ll try to get you to
00:54
buy a you know oh you need an air filter
00:56
and you need uh wipers and you need
00:58
a brake light and pretty soon you’re
01:00
you’ve spent 150
01:01
200 and if you just go there for the oil
01:04
change just get the oil change and then
01:05
take care of the other stuff later
01:07
so anyway uh but before i do that i have
01:10
a dad joke for you
01:11
well actually you know what it’s a joke
01:13
about oil
01:14
but um i didn’t think i should tell it
01:16
to you because it was a little too crude
01:19
so anyway uh let’s get started
01:22
so underneath your car you’re gonna need
01:25
to find the oil pan
01:27
and there’s this nut right here that’s
01:29
gonna need to be
01:31
loosened so that you can drain the oil
01:34
out okay
01:35
it’s a little hard to get a good video
01:37
shot of this i’ll try to pull back
01:39
and try to find another way to get a
01:40
good angle but that’s the nut
01:43
and we’re gonna have to get something to
01:44
catch the oil once we loosen this nut
01:47
okay okay
01:50
so i’m going to have to loosen
01:54
this nut right there and have it drain
01:57
into that pan okay so you want to
02:00
compensate a little bit by
02:02
making sure the pan’s kind of out from
02:03
it because it’s going to kind of want to
02:06
drain that way and then when it as
02:09
it um starts to as most of the oils out
02:13
you want to kind of pull this back
02:15
too so that it’s right underneath there
02:16
to let it drain the rest of the way
02:20
okay
02:23
okay i’m going to loosen this up with a
02:26
this particular one is a 14 millimeter
02:28
and i’m going to loosen it up so we can
02:30
get it draining
02:34
okay
02:36
that’s on there pretty tight okay
02:39
there we go okay and now that i got it
02:43
coming
02:43
i can do it with my fingers here inside
02:47
this little
02:48
pan there’s actually a mesh uh a plastic
02:51
mesh
02:52
screen so that this thing won’t fall in
02:54
there but if it does
02:56
it’s not that big a deal but that’ll
02:57
stop it from falling in
02:59
okay so i can go ahead and
03:04
get the oil coming out there we go
03:08
i’ll just leave that in that mesh
03:11
mesh screen and just wait for that to
03:14
drain
03:14
i usually just to be sure let it drain
03:16
for uh
03:18
you know you’ll be able to come back and
03:20
check on it and see
03:21
uh how it’s draining but um this thing
03:25
is five quarts
03:26
so probably let it drain for a half hour
03:28
just to make sure
03:30
and then like i said i’ll just slowly
03:32
move this thing back just to make sure
03:35
that while i’m away and then this as
03:37
this slows down it’s going to want to
03:38
um drain straight down right it’ll
03:41
slowly start moving back this way so you
03:43
got to compensate for that
03:44
so as long as i know i’m good there i
03:46
can just walk away and let that
03:48
let that drain for a while okay
03:53
okay so it’s been draining for about
03:56
five minutes so you can see that it’s
03:58
already
04:00
uh getting down to where it’s
04:03
just dribbling out but um i’ll just move
04:07
this thing just to make sure
04:08
that i’m catching the oil so where
04:12
that’s falling right down in the center
04:13
and i’ll just let it run for
04:15
um again you know i could probably close
04:17
it up now it’d be fine but since i’m
04:19
doing this myself you know if you went
04:20
to get your oil changed somewhere
04:22
they’re not going to let it drain for a
04:23
half an hour right they’re just going to
04:25
let it drain for
04:26
five minutes and then put that plug back
04:28
in and then um get you out of there as
04:29
soon as possible but
04:31
since you’re doing it yourself you may
04:32
as well just let it you know get as much
04:34
of that
04:34
old oil out of there okay
04:38
okay so it looks like it stopped
04:42
draining so now i can get the
04:46
get the plug back out and i can wipe
04:48
that off
04:50
i mean it’s still dripping a little bit
04:52
but i think that’s good enough
04:57
so just wipe that guy off and put that
05:00
back in
05:04
make sure you do this though right you
05:07
don’t want to get up there
05:08
so we’re going to take off the oil
05:10
filter next but we want to make sure
05:11
let’s get that plug back in so that’s
05:13
done
05:14
and then we’re going to go remove the
05:17
oil filter
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but you know you don’t want to forget to
05:23
do this step
05:25
you don’t want to forget to do this step
05:26
and then you start filling it back up
05:29
with oil
05:30
and it’s draining right out the bottom
05:31
right that would be horrible so
05:34
we can tighten this guy back up don’t
05:37
have to over tighten
05:38
it but that’s good nice and snug okay
05:41
so that’s good um
05:44
and now i just gotta move my drain pan
05:46
underneath
05:47
uh where the oil filter is which is just
05:50
right over here in this case
05:53
so and then i’ll move the camera for you
05:56
too so
05:57
okay so there’s my oil filter right
06:00
there
06:01
um this is going to be a little bit
06:03
probably the hardest part about this
06:04
whole thing is
06:05
trying to make it so i can give you a
06:07
good view of everything
06:08
um while i’m doing it so i had to even
06:11
jack up my van
06:12
just a little bit so that i could get
06:15
you to
06:15
um see how to how to change the oil
06:18
probably could have just reached under
06:19
there without having to do that but
06:21
anyway so that’s the oil filter and i’m
06:23
just going to try to do it by hand i
06:24
think i can just
06:25
uh probably reef it off there by hand um
06:28
they do make oil filter wrenches and
06:30
i’ll show that to you but i’m just going
06:31
to
06:32
try to do it by hand i’m not sure if my
06:33
arms are going to be in the way
06:35
while i’m doing it but i’m going to try
06:36
to get you a view i’ll try
06:38
okay but anyway we’re just going to try
06:41
to unscrew that okay
06:42
okay so i’m going to try to loosen this
06:46
by hand
06:46
it’s right up there like i said my arm
06:48
might get in the way i might come from
06:49
the top and try to
06:51
get uh get better uh
06:54
get a better grip on it i just gotta
06:57
make sure i position my pan
06:58
underneath so it’s gonna catch the oil
07:00
when the oil starts draining from that
07:02
so i’m going to try it and see if i can
07:04
get it from here yeah
07:06
you know what i’m not i’m going to go
07:07
from the top
07:24
not budging okay i’m going to get a
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an oil wrench oil filter wrench
07:31
okay
07:34
okay i’m gonna i had to reef on it from
07:38
the top but i finally got it loose
07:40
so now i can finish loosening it up
07:44
okay and then it should drip down just a
07:48
little bit
07:51
so i’m removing that guy
08:03
a lot of threads on there
08:06
okay so now it’s coming out
08:11
all right there he is now i just got to
08:14
put the new one back in
08:16
looks like a whole lot of oil didn’t
08:18
come out of there because
08:20
uh we haven’t driven this in a while and
08:22
so probably all the oil was down
08:24
in the in the pan so i think if you
08:26
drive it you just got to be careful
08:28
um changing your oil because
08:30
everything’s hot through here right
08:32
but i think it would have been easier to
08:33
actually get the um oil filter off if
08:35
that was hot since it’s cold
08:37
it was a little snug okay so now i’m
08:40
gonna put the new one back on
08:42
okay so once i removed this i just
08:45
turned it upside down and put it on
08:47
this pan right to make sure it drains
08:49
all the way i also wanted to show you
08:51
this because i couldn’t
08:52
tell if i could actually um if i was
08:54
being able to show you how to
08:56
loosen this but this is how this one
08:57
works you just slip it on
09:00
and then you and then you just turn it
09:02
that way right that’s how i was actually
09:04
able to get it loose
09:05
it’s really tight on my van so i just
09:07
couldn’t figure out how to get a good
09:08
angle for you but that’s all it was so i
09:10
just did that
09:11
okay and that’s how i was able to get it
09:12
loose and then i just spun it loose
09:14
the rest of the way with by hand and
09:17
then there’s lots of threads down inside
09:18
there so that’s
09:19
what that looks like and then
09:22
so the way this thing this catcher works
09:24
is it just has this lid that goes over
09:26
the top
09:27
okay and just have to screw that on and
09:30
bring that back
09:30
to the auto parts store
09:34
and have them recycle it
09:39
okay so what you want to do when you put
09:40
the new one back on you just take it and
09:42
you actually want to rub
09:43
some oil on here okay on the seal
09:47
you just take a little a small amount of
09:50
oil
09:53
okay and then just rub it on here
09:57
so just make sure that you get a good
09:59
seal okay
10:01
and then all we’re going to do is just
10:03
we’re just gonna screw that thing back
10:04
on
10:05
okay okay again i think the hardest part
10:08
of this job is trying to find a
10:10
view that’s gonna allow you to be able
10:12
to see what i’m doing so
10:13
hopefully this is gonna work i’m gonna
10:15
go back up there with this guy now that
10:17
i put that oil on it
10:19
and then you just i’d have to feel for
10:22
it oh that
10:23
got right on feels good okay
10:26
just spinning it down
10:30
okay and this one’s got a nice grip on
10:33
the end
10:34
um so i’ll be able to just hand tighten
10:36
it i just want to tighten it pretty
10:38
pretty good with my hand
10:41
you can use an oil filter wrench but i
10:43
don’t think it’s necessary
10:52
okay okay that’s on there good
10:56
and then i made sure that my i put that
10:59
um the nut back in
11:02
right into my oil pan so that’s good now
11:04
i can just fill it back up with oil
11:07
so i’m hoping you can see that and i
11:09
hope you’re able to see that it’s pretty
11:11
everything’s pretty tight so this is
11:13
again why i i don’t even normally do
11:15
this myself anymore
11:17
there’s just um it is there is a nice
11:20
sense of accomplishment when you do it
11:22
but um getting that oil filter off of
11:26
there was tough
11:27
um everything’s just tight you know and
11:29
so they have a real advantage
11:31
on you at the place where they change
11:34
your oil because they
11:35
um you know they you drive right in and
11:38
they’re working right below you it’s
11:39
really easy to get out everything when
11:41
you’re doing this yourself and you’re
11:43
in your driveway or whatever it just
11:45
it’s a lot
11:47
it’s a lot harder and the amount by the
11:48
time you um
11:50
pay for everything boy you’re you know
11:52
you’re making just a couple dollars an
11:54
hour
11:55
hour for your time unless you have a
11:56
nice setup then it’s you know
11:58
then it’s your advantage to do this but
12:00
if you’re doing it in your driveway
12:02
it is uh it is you’re definitely at a
12:04
disadvantage
12:07
okay so now we’re gonna add the oil in
12:10
here’s a dad hack for you this is just a
12:12
bottle i didn’t have a funnel
12:14
so i’m just going to use this is a
12:17
bottle
12:17
that i cut the bottom off of just be
12:19
careful when you cut this you don’t want
12:21
any
12:21
pieces getting down in your engine right
12:23
so make sure there’s no no
12:25
you know it’s not rough and stuff’s
12:26
gonna fall down inside but
12:28
anyway there we go so we’ll just take
12:30
that off
12:32
stick that guy right in right in there
12:36
oil
12:39
and my uh this van takes five quarts of
12:42
oil and this is five quarts so i’m just
12:44
going to go ahead and
12:45
um put the majority of it in it
12:48
majority of it in to start and then
12:50
we’ll stop and just check to make sure
12:52
things are good
13:01
starting to overflow a little bit but
13:04
let’s take your time
13:13
wait so i’m just gonna go ahead i put uh
13:15
almost the whole thing in probably about
13:17
a quart left but i’m just gonna go ahead
13:18
and check the oil just to see
13:22
see where we’re at and then plus once
13:25
you drive the car
13:27
too uh that oil filter will actually
13:30
take some of that too so you actually
13:31
want to be over just a little bit
13:34
okay yeah so it’s still
13:38
a little bit low it is showing up on my
13:40
dipstick
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okay
14:02
i could probably lose the funnel now
14:04
because i can probably just pour it
14:05
straight in a lot easier
14:27
okay so we’re getting close let me go
14:29
ahead and check it again
14:36
you got to kind of wait for it to drain
14:37
down to before you can really check it
14:40
so i mean really for free
14:43
yourself to get an accurate reading you
14:44
know this this is um
14:46
running down to that pan that i showed
14:48
you before when i showed you how to
14:49
check your oil
14:54
really gotta wait just a little bit
14:58
but yeah it’s showing up boy it’s nice
15:00
and clean so it’s even hard to see but
15:02
it’s right at full
15:04
but then like i said it’s gonna that um
15:06
oil filter is just gonna take a little
15:07
bit once you actually run the
15:09
run the vehicle okay so let’s put the
15:11
rest in it’s just a little bit left
15:27
okay that’s just about good and then
15:29
just
15:30
you know there’s there’s several things
15:31
that can go wrong here when you change
15:32
your own oil
15:34
uh even if somebody else changes your
15:35
oil too right so make sure you put the
15:37
cap back on
15:38
right you leave this off and you run
15:40
drive around and
15:41
oil’s spurting around that’s not good so
15:43
make sure you put that back on
15:45
okay um and then we wanted to make sure
15:48
that that
15:49
that oil filter or that yeah that oil
15:51
filter is tight right so
15:53
i can just double check it is and then i
15:56
um
15:57
before i added that oil right i had to
15:59
double check to make sure that plug was
16:00
in
16:01
underneath so all right so so that’s
16:04
about it
16:04
um i can go ahead and drive around and
16:08
then i’ll come back and double check to
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make sure
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and i’ll check the oil again just to see
16:13
make sure everything’s good but
16:14
um and it’s good to do this about every
16:17
three to five thousand miles right three
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or five thousand miles
16:20
um and as i was doing this so when i um
16:22
showed you how to check your oil
16:24
in one of my earliest videos i said that
16:27
i don’t normally do this anymore and
16:28
after doing this i
16:30
remember why i don’t do it because you
16:32
know there’s just a lot of
16:34
things um yeah i mean doing it in your
16:38
driveway
16:38
they just have an advantage on you and
16:41
you can usually get it for 30 to 40
16:43
dollars
16:44
um and you know by the time you get the
16:46
oil or you get the get something to
16:48
catch it in
16:49
have it drained out now see i got to run
16:51
that oil
16:52
back to a place to get it recycled um
16:55
and then get the oil filter get the oil
16:59
um you know i probably spent 30 30
17:02
on supplies just to do that so um anyway
17:05
but
17:06
at least you know how to how to do it
17:07
now if you wanted to tackle it yourself
17:08
just be careful with a hot engine too
17:11
um you know if you’re reaching up in
17:13
there you can definitely burn yourself
17:15
so anyway i hope this was helpful
17:18
to you and thanks for watching and god
17:21
bless you
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