Top 5 Oil Change Tips

[EricTheCarGuy]

Yes this is a sponsored video, but I ended up liking it better than my original oil change videos. I think it’s more concise and contains better information. What are your thoughts?

I also had some fun with this one. I tried to put the oil into every shot of the video. See if you can spot it in each scene.

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[ratdude747]

[quote=”Timinglight” post=151237]Hello Eric

Thank you for responding…

I didn’t install it yet but I wonder does it leak through the valve or the fiber washer included?

I planned to install it with a copper crush washer.

Thanks[/quote]

If it’s a fiber washer, then based on my experience (not with such a valve, but with a bolt filling an unused oil level sensor on my ranger’s 3.0 v6), then that will leak (not so say the valve wouldn’t either). Due to the filler bolt being custom (Ford OE’d the pans with and without the sensor for my application, and the pan was a NOS ebay find), I was somewhat limited on what I could find for a seal. My most recent attempt was such a fiber washer, and it’s seeping just as bad as the crappy oil pan gasket that I replaced when installing said pan. You’d think it would work more like a paper gasket, but at least for me, fiber washers don’t seal oil ports.

(FWIW, I’m running 5w-20 Ford Motorcraft synthetic blend).

That sort of a valve scares me… One bad run in with some road debris, pop goes the valve, and bye bye oil (under load most likely too!). Unless you have a reasonably protective splash sheild or skid plate under it, in which case I see why a valve might be nice; I used to drive a Dodge Durango with a leaky front differential that resulted in a skid plate packed with oil based mud… to suffice that was a real PITA to clean out.

[EricTheCarGuy]

[quote=”plokiu” post=151377]Eric, why not get a waste oil burner and use the waste oil to heat your garage in the winter AND make a video about it for us?[/quote]

I give my waste oil to my landlord to use in his waste oil heater. Also.

[Mike T.]

I’ve had the same crush washer on my 04 santa fe for around 10 years now. I used to buy into changing them but the Santy appears to be reason why it appears to be unnessary.

[Hokiedad4]

[quote=”Rereonehundred” post=146373]This means the Penzoil’s “ball bearing” theory from natural gas amounts to advertizing nonsense.[/quote]

Just having the same viscosity does not mean synthetic and conventional oils are the same. Synthetic oil is more homogeneous, but it’s not a single isomer. When crude is used as the base oil, there’s a huge variety of chemical substances, some of which are more susceptible to chemical and thermal degradation. So if the image of ball bearings suggests better homogeneity, then it’s an accurate picture of what you get in a synthetic.

[Jake F]

You and Chris (maybe Scotty) never clean the oil filter housing before installing a new filter. With older cars, most of the time, grind builds up on a downward-facing hub. Nonetheless, I’ll always wipe a bit of dirt off that housing regardless of its orientation unless I’m not getting paid in some form.

PS – a child in Africa could have drank that .3 qt. 😀 Too much?

[EricTheCarGuy]

[quote=”creativepotato” post=164607]You and Chris (maybe Scotty) never clean the oil filter housing before installing a new filter. With older cars, most of the time, grind builds up on a downward-facing hub. Nonetheless, I’ll always wipe a bit of dirt off that housing regardless of its orientation unless I’m not getting paid in some form.

PS – a child in Africa could have drank that .3 qt. 😀 Too much?[/quote]

Thanks for the recommendation.

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