How To Change Your Cars Fluids

[Music] welcome to another episode of mighty camel is proudly supported by just car insurance now we recently got a message from John who says dear mighty karma is his name really John might be Tom for Dean from Adelaide we changed his name didn't we here to protect the guilty dear Mighty Car Mods I just bought a secondhand cargo John and was wondering if you can show me how to change the fluids well mighty knows how to change the fluids John so it's a good thing you are so he's gonna do it an old film it it's a great deal that's right we've continued our love affair with these tiny pieces of Japanese metal and the fact that you can free point turn them in a standard driveway means they're a perfect run about Maddy's done his usual trick of finding the filthiest example in the whole of Australia and brought it to mighty mods headquarters so we can get to work on it we've affectionately named this vehicle the blue turd my favorite thing of finding it from this car from every other little saw that we've owned is that this one's a 2002 which means it gets mad taillights and the only other thing you get for your extra year and extra money is a bit release cable so you get a little thing here can pop the boot like that that's the only thing they've changed after two years Martin because the car was already it was already so perfect let's see that that didn't stop someone from ruining it are they yours no don't smell them ah 30 yeah I don't know what that is a blanket yeah but someone's been making a quilt loan it's like proper quilters blanket it's got tools another oh that's that's relatively normal there's no more human slime or anything weird in there's a bit of a newspaper down there mum's date no page 36 there's more newspaper though string and stuff under the wheel button reasonably close reasonably clean this is he's cleaner than the more rubber bear the other car somebody over there Apes her other man's tools more crap that doesn't stink too bad it doesn't the seats stink though okay yeah she she now people ask us all the time how do I get into working on my own car well one good way to do it is to buy a cheap little runabout like that that you're not too precious about you're not to be scared to break to work on it today we're going to do this entire service for around a hundred bucks and tools you're going to need our spanners pliers a soil filter a removal tool of some description some screwdrivers and a socket set and as for the actual fluids that you're going to need we've got coolant we've got gearbox oil engine oil brake fluid power steering fluid and we've got some spark plugs and a brand new oil filter to keep it clean and mad most of what we're gonna do today takes place in the engine bay we're going to drain all the old fluids out of the car and replace it all with fresh stuff the first step is to jack up the car stick some axle stands under it for safety and pop the bonnet now it's a whole lot easier to work on your car when the engine bays nice and cool we just had a look in the radiator and whoever owned this before we're just running playing water we're gonna flush out the whole thing and fill it with proper Korn coolant raises the boiling point of the water and helps prevent corrosion in your cooling system we're gonna drain the radiator by removing the bottom hose and flushing all the old Colin out you can flush the entire cooling system but you need to remove your thermostat first [Music] checking your owner's manual to find out exactly what type and how much of each fluid that you're gonna need [Music] we can run this coolant at a mixed ratio of 33% it's a 3 liter cooling system so we just throw 1 liter of this in about 2 liters of water and then I'll keep it going for years and years and years unless it blows up again like it did yesterday come on man you can mix this concentrated coolant with water or by complete fill bottles don't forget to top-up you call an overflow bottle next bleed the system by starting it with the cap off and giving it a few revs checking that it's all topped up [Music] [Music] changing oil regularly is the best preventative maintenance you can do on your car and that's the first thing you should learn you can use an oil flush to make sure all the old gunk is removed pour it into the oil filter cap and then let it idle think of oil flush like dental floss you don't need to do it every time but it does give you a thorough clean out and it stops you getting bad breath that doesn't quite make sense you're so precise Martin gotta be man and Japanese precision you're Australian yeah but the cars Japanese man proper JDM this is like a duty arm oh no this is exactly the same as a GTI really made in the same country made with Japanese parts by Japanese people it's really fast and reliable economical I don't think of GTR economical somehow I don't think this is fast mutton hey now the trick to not getting covered in scalding hot oil is to one have your car too hot or wear gloves or master this trick which is hold lots of pressure on the nut while you unscrew it till it's all the way out and when you feel it really go like that that is black it's a good idea to change your oil filter every time you change your oil and essentially if you've used a flushing product [Music] be sure to thread your oil filter on properly no filter means no driving [Music] refill the engine with the appropriate grade oil check how much the car takes with an empty filter and pour it in while you're under your car it's a great time to check that your drive shafts steering rack bushes and hoses are all in good condition and not split or leaking next on our list of fluids to change is the gearbox oil now a lot of the gearboxes on these little front-wheel drive cars they have a filler hole and a drain hole and it can be really difficult to get to the filler hole unless you make yourself up one of these which is a two dollar funnel and two dollars worth of clear plastic tubing and you run that down the engine bay and you can see exactly how high your fluid level is give up fluids horrible bra yeah this setup can also be useful on cars that are filled through the dipstick auto transmission fluid is changed in much the same way the gearbox is drained and then refilled up to the level of the top plug the car needs to be on a flat surface to do this properly [Applause] [Music] [Applause] new gearbox oil makes your shifts smoother and protect your gearbox from where [Music] when the gearboxes fall remove the tube and reinstall plug [Music] what is happening on it always happens the stuff just goes wrong oh man I think I've already mentioned how much I dislike gearbox oil very oily tall you've got their mark always ah if you're not using gloves which it should be heavy duty hand wash is essential I'm gonna change power steering fluid with this thing man looks like something you can pregnant a goat with that was last week's mighty ones episode that'll be on the season 3 DVD did you know what you did not know nothing real life I grew up on a gut start you improved a little head what do you wanna watch that you get one of them and yeah and you fill it up with them you get these little sachets of frozen sperm you put it in there then you squirt it up they go right frozen's goats burn yeah incredible [Music] these massive syringes are really handy for impregnating animals and they're also useful for extracting power steering fluid the idea is to get as much of the old stuff out as you can and then flush new fluid through the system a few times over [Music] to cycle the fluid through the system Jack the car up so you can easily turn the steering wheel rinse and repeat [Music] next up we're going to install some new spark plugs [Music] three cylinders of power three cylinders of fury Martin that's half a straight six and half of v6 right there one that's 3/8 of a v8 it is two to one quarter of a v12 yeah and it's three-quarters of a four-cylinder it's 100% of a three cylinder Martin the condition of the old plugs can give you a good idea on how well the engine is running check out the Mighty Car Mods forum if you want to find out more make sure you don't drop anything down the spark plug tubes as it'll fall straight on the top of your cylinders and that bad we decided to go one heat range colder and we'll be running premium fuel to limit pinging make sure your new spark plugs adapt correctly for your engine use a torque wrench to make sure you don't over tighten the plugs the coil packs go back on and we're done you're not gonna be changing outbreak flu because it's already pretty good you know a lot of people do break up grades and they're also like thanking their calipers the hard way so we'll be covering that later on drop the car and run it to cycle the new oil and cool it through the system check it closely for any leaks and be sure to check your oil level on the dipstick drain your old fluids into some used containers and then take them to be recycled or disposed off properly don't even think about pouring them down the sink or leaving them on a nature strip somewhere or captain planets gonna come and punch you in the face with it all done it's time for a road test [Music] so the best thing to do before you start going crazy modding your car is learn how to service it properly so you can keep it running well exactly and the other important point is a lot of people send us emails saying how do I get started what do I do buying a cheap car like this is the perfect car to get started on it doesn't matter if it blows up because you can buy another one for twenty dollars thirty months yeah exactly now you may have your own techniques of doing services and doing fluid changes if so look in the description there's a link to the Mighty Car Mods forums you can right up there share your information and that means this video on link becomes a great resource but everyone else who wants to change their bodily fluids car fluids me [Music] yeah and bodily fluids have you seeing that picture on the Internet oh no serious question that guy who's um he's wearing like a little mask II thing and he's wearing some live undies and he's on he's behind a big Volkswagen van

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Length: 14min 20sec (860 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 07 2011