Here's Why You Should CHANGE YOUR OWN OIL!!

in this video let's talk about why you should be changing your own oil whether you own a car or a truck changing your own oil can be very rewarding it is a relatively simple process where you're just draining out the old oil refilling it and changing the oil filter but I know that is easier said than done you do have to climb under the vehicle you do have to deal with your old dirty oil and that for a lot of people is not fun however in this video I'm gonna break it down and make it as simple as possible and today we're gonna be working on this 2003 Chevrolet Suburban being that I Drive a large SUV I have plenty of room under the vehicle without having to jack it up but let's say you drive a car or your SUV or truck is very low to the ground well you're gonna need a jack and that's what I have here in my case I'm gonna look under the truck for a strong point on the frame to put the jack definitely consult your owners manual to know exactly where your manufacturer suggests you jack up your car or truck alright well I chose a point on the frame and I'm gonna start jacking this vehicle up just to get some more room while I work and now that I have the truck jacked up I'm gonna use this jack stand to support it and with the jack stand in place I'm gonna let down the jack slowly to set it nice and slow into the jack stand now that I have my jack stand supporting the entire weight of the vehicle and my jack still in place with tension for good measure I can safely climb under the vehicle and not be crushed okay so our vehicle is now safely supported let's take a look under the hood and look for our oil fill cap in this case my oil fill cap tells me I need to use 5w30 weight oil let's go ahead and remove the cap doing this will help your old oil flow out when you remove that drain plug I'm gonna open my owner's manual and look for the capacities page on this page I can see my Vortech 5300 v8 with the VIN number of Z which is a flex-fuel motor takes six quarts of oil with the filter now speaking of the oil this is one of the major reasons why you need to start changing your own oil I can now choose which oil I want to put in my vehicle during this oil change I'll be using this Mobil 1 5w30 just like my motor calls for and as you can see this is advanced full synthetic motor oil you can even choose an extended performance oil which gives you 15,000 miles between oil changes also I can ensure the exact oil filter as recommended by the manufacturer now it's time to climb under the vehicle oh and don't forget your drain pan okay so here you can see my drain plug and just underneath I have my drain bucket I'm gonna put it a little forward accounting for the arc that's gonna happen when I open this drain plug I've got my 15 millimeter wrench and I'm gonna loosen this thing up okay so it's loose I'm now going to loosen it all the way by hand waiting until it skips over on itself keeping positive pressure and there I just felt it now I'm gonna pull the bolt away and with your drain pan properly placed hopefully you won't spill a drip and now is a great time to check the condition of your drain plug not only can you check the gasket you can check how your magnets doing mine seems to be doing just fine okay we are now officially done draining the oil I'm going to take a paper towel and just wipe the surface and then take my bolt and thread it in by hand now I can take my wrench and just snug it down and don't forget to wipe off your excess oil here that way you can check it later on to see if there's any drips or anything going on here and you'll know if you see something that you need to tighten your oil drain plug with the drain completed and our drain plug bolted back in place we can now remove our oil filter and sometimes these oil filters can be kind of tough to get off in my case I'm gonna use one of these oil filter wrenches I'm just gonna slide it on and slowly but surely wrench it off now that that's loose I can start unscrewing the oil filter but I'm also going to make sure that my oil drain pan properly placed do this as quickly as possible okay we can now prep our new oil filter I'm gonna take it out of the box and place it with the seal up now I'm gonna take a quart of oil put some up in the lid which puts just enough oil inside this lid for me to use my finger and lube up this seal we only need a little here and if you're lucky enough to have a filter that screws in completely vertically you can pre-fill this thing in that case all you do is simply pour some oil in the center of the filter give it a few minutes so the filter media can soak up some of this oil and then refill the filter media within the oil filter soaks up quite a bit of oil I've already filled it up twice now and I'm gonna do it a third time and that is how you pre fill an oil filter and now we can install it just going to simply bring it up to the threads try to keep it completely vertically and spin it on you may need to clean off the filter or use some sort of rag to try to get more leverage on the filter and tighten it as tight as you can by hand it doesn't have to be he-man tight but you do want it somewhat tight all right well that's it guys we now have reinstalled our drain plug and our filter and we're done underneath the vehicle back up top the only thing we have to do now is pour in our six quarts of oil just grab a funnel to make the job a little easier I'm gonna start with the rest of the court that I was using to pre-fill the oil filter now I'll go ahead and add my five remaining quarts okay well this will be our last quart our sixth quart all right with everything buttoned up underneath and six quarts of fresh oil in the motor we're going to give it a start and here we go and the oil pressure looks great everything sounds good too help with that guys we've just finished a top-notch oil change on our vehicle sure it took some effort and sure we got a little dirty but it is extremely rewarding knowing full well exactly what type of oil is in our engine make no mistake a vehicle is an investment a poor investment but an investment nonetheless we need to try to minimize our loss by taking the very best care we can and today by changing our own oil we've ensured the quality the quantity the type of filter and the fact that the job was actually done personally I've vowed to always change my own oil whenever humanly possible it is such a simple process but the lifeblood of our engine alright guys well if you liked this video please don't hesitate to hit that thumbs up also if you're not subscribed subscribe you can find more information down in the description below and you can go to my website at

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Length: 7min 45sec (465 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 29 2019