So have a look at my other video ìChoosing Engine Oilî to help you determine exactly

what kind of oil you want to put in your engine. So you can get your filter from your dealership,

you can get it at a lot of different kinds of automotive supply stores and general department

stores have them ñ even Wal-Mart carries them. And of course if you donít know what

the number is ñ if you canít read it say on the filter thatís on your vehicle right

now ñ if you donít have access to the manuals ñ you get some information at the store.

Thereís generally going to be ñ at the very least ñ thereís going to be some flip-books

attached to the shelving somehow where the filters are being sold, and in the best case

scenario theyíll have a parts person there to help you out. Theyíll just ask you a few

basic questions about your car: whatís the make, the model, the year and the engine size

and theyíll be able to help you out right away, get you the right filter right away.

Perhaps have a look at one of my other videos ìSafe Jacking Proceduresî to give you some

ideas on exactly how to lift your vehicle carefully and safely and ensure that itís

safe before you get to work on it. So if you donít have the time or the equipment to actually

lift the car up you can try this ìcurb-hoppingî technique ñ but if you do ìcurb-hoppingî

and you do your oil change out in the street - please donít work near a storm drain and

do all that you can to catch all the oil and mop up any spills at all ñ because weíve

had enough oil spills recently. I worked at a place that would pull the dipstick and leave

it standing up like that in order to signify that the oil had been dropped. Itís a drain

pan. You just screw the end off of here. Do not use a pair of pliers or Vise-Grips or

locking pliers, Channellocks or water-pump pliers, donít use a pipe wrench, donít use

these kinds of tools. You can see the teeth on this, the steel is extremely hard and the

teeth on it are very, very aggressive. Theyíre going to chew up and round down the much softer

metal of that drain plug. And theyíre going to leave you with a rounded drain plug that

you canít remove except for to try filing it down a size using a hand-file, or welding

a nut onto it. And donít use an open ended wrench. Use the ring wrench end of your combination

wrench to do the job. A combination wrench is very simply a combination of an open ender

wrench and a ring wrench, itís a combination. Definitely do use a combination wrench or

a line wrench or a recess wrench or a gear wrench or your favourite socket wrench. Iíll

just get in here. Put the ring end of a combination wrench and just break it like that, bring

this back under it, and then spin it off with my fingers. Itís very tight here, as you

can see, but I didnít jack the car up at all. Weíre working on it on its own wheels.

So this is its natural height. ìTighten the engine oil drain plug to twenty-two foot poundsî.

OK now that the oil pan nut is back in place Iím going to drag the drain pan ahead a little

bit to capture any oil that gets away when I remove the oil filter. This is an oil filter

wrench - this is for very large sized oil filters. This is a moderate sized one for

car engines and light trucks. By far the most useful is the strap wrench. If youíre wondering

if you have to do a filter change every time you do an oil change the answer is ìnoî.

The service manual says that you can get away with doing an oil change every other time

and an oil/filter change every other time. I personally have always done oil and filter

changes together, I would never do an oil change without a filter change because you

know filters are relatively cheap compared to engines. Iíve shown you the proper tools

to use but in this case itís just a small one and I know from experience that I can

do it with my bare hand.

So transfer it into some kind of sealing bottle and take it either to a garage or a marina

or some kind of service centre ñ even the place that sold you the oil should have some

kind of recycling program where they can take it from you at no charge to you. OK now itís

of critical importance that you lubricate this gasket before you put it on and that

you check that the old gasket is still in place. Because if you have the old gasket

stuck to the face of your engine and you try and put a new gasket on, the two gaskets wonít

be able to hold the oil in and itíll end up spraying it all over and out onto the road.

Take a little bit of this old oil like that and just use it to lubricate the gasket before

you install it, and thatíll ensure that it comes off easily when you go to change it

again next time. Tighten the new oil filter to three-quarters to a full turn after itís

contacted the surface. And thatís it. So you should consider this a range ñ not absolutes.

It should lie somewhere between the low and the full mark and if it is below the low mark

then you definitely need to add oil. Perfect. OK so do have a look at my channel, and when

youíre there, just ski on down to the link here, click on that link. Thatíll take you

to my website ñ go over here to the table of contents, take the slider bar and scroll

right down to the bottom, and the second-last link there is called Resources/Links. This

has all kinds of really great information links including a link to Faxon Automotive

Literature.