Changing Your Engine Oil? You’re Doing It Wrong

rev up your engines today I'm going to show you things not to do when you change your oil so you don't mess it up now the first thing is use the correct kind of oil watch this as we zoom in what does it say here 5w30 and what does this have my oil 5w30 modern engines are very specific don't put a lighter oil and don't put a heavier oil it's designed for one oil you know use that these variable valve timing engines particular about the oil that setup used to have you wait you can damage that stuff always use the oil it was designed for you got to change your own oil get a good jack and jack stand and a lot of people think I'm not strong enough to get the bolt off to drain it you get a long extension bar like this the socket goes right on it then with all that leverage anybody can pull it off once you line it up you got to pull hard huh but it gets loose pretty fast that's just a simple job you lose your fingers you just spin the thing off they got pretty long thread how comes a dirty oil into the pan now you don't want to burn yourself so do this on an engine that's at least sat there for say an hour or so as you can see here I got my big fan blowing so it cools it down pretty fast and there's not most people forget they all drain plug there's a little gasket always you the new one by about at a time I got a whole stack of them here they don't cost much, I got a stack of them always put a new one on then just finger tight it in with your finger you can't turn anymore then get your socket on extension put it on now it's a little bit snug then turn it a little bit more so it's nice and tight and won't come off that's it think it yourself an oil filter I'm using an STP quality one this is just normal oil we're gonna change it every three to five thousand miles and these are good to over 5,000 miles if using synthetic oil they're not advised go up a little bit higher by a higher one and they can be changed every seven to ten thousand miles if you want it to last a long time I when it comes to getting the old oil filter off you want the right tool I find these are really handy they open up they fit on the filter and you can easily unscrew you don't have to mess around with thin metal breaking or plastic stuff these metal ones work really well not in the case of this lexus they're very easy to get to there's the oil filter it's under the exhaust manifold another reason you want to do it when the engine isn't red-hot so you don't burn your hand when you get the filter on this just slides over the filter like so and since it's recessed we use the ratchet a little bitty extension so we have enough room to get it on then what the whole thing on you turn it and it's loose then you can take it off now it easily just spins off with your bare hand I got a lot of turns on it but it just spins off this is why you want to do it on a cool engine turn sideways and up it goes and there's a really important tip don't forget to check that this gasket is still on your old filter you can see the rubber is still here sometimes the sticks to the engine and if you take this off and this is naked and then screw a new filter on you do what's called double gasket you'll have the gasket on the new filter on top of the gasket of the old one often it will start leaking I knew a guy who blew the engine on his Jeep doing that then get the new filter put a little oil on your finger put it on the left that way it'll go on won't leak and then when you take it off it won't be almost impossible to take off then you just keep spinning the new one on and once it contacts turn it that's good enough you get it tight enough garçon you got to decide on oil I'm using this STP conventional five w 30 off that's what it calls for now if you want insane protection you could go for something like this redline 5w30 full synthetic oil my friends who drive race cars they swear by this time now for a normal driver it's kind of overkill this stuff costs like three times to four times as much as the STP oil does plain old oil is fine if you change it every three to five thousand miles it's perfectly fine and especially if you don't drive the car that much you got to change the oil once a year anyway and if you're only changing it once a year hey isn't it better to use oil that cost three bucks a quart instead of oil that costs ten or twelve or fifteen dollars a quart it's not burning any oil hey they're both working perfectly fine for normal driving situations I got a whole video on the ratings this particular one has sn+ which is really high right in so it's a high rental this is perfectly fine now how do you know how much oil to put in well look it up first my all dinner we're gonna check engine our fluid types and capacities here we go drain and fill with oil filter change five US ports well that was easy I got five quarts in an effort to be totally transparent the reason I'm using the STP oil is it's good oil and it was on sale at autozone that's all I'm using it now start with a funnel see it on spill a bunch and parts slow these that baffles enter pretty slow so you may actually have to pour it at a small rate like this if I poured the thing in full blast it would start leaking out of the top and getting all over the exhaust I'm these v6 Toyota Lexus engines you gotta put the oil on slower you're gonna make a mess and when you're done put the cap back on make sure it's snug so it doesn't leak but look on there to see if there's anything leaking you never know y'all you want to check the leaks when you done I take it for a good road test and don't forget to recycle your oil I take mine autozone they recycle it and don't forget to recycle your oil filter to the Auto Zone down the street from me they now take the oil filters too, I didn't have to pay a company to take them away I can just bring the old one to autozone and they recycle them, now you know the right way to change your engine all in just in time it's starting to thunder 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Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 6min 32sec (392 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 23 2019