Hello, good, today I am going to give you some advice because there are a lot of people, friends and a family member who has told me that Gray could do the maintenance on my car at home and normally I say yes, except for the gasoline or diesel filter, which I don't care about. I recommend it to those of you who don't know mechanics, the rest will be changing the oil and filters, it's something simple. I'm going to give you four little things, four basic tips so that you can do it at home. I reco
mmend doing it at home as long as you have four basic tools and are It is more or less good for you to remove a screw. At the end of the day there are four things that you have to pay attention to: not to tighten the crankcase screw too much in case you can overdo it and then it would leak oil or have a tool to remove the oil filter Well, it's a little more complicated to have. But well, once you have your car, you buy four simple tools, which are the tool to remove the crankcase screw, the tool
to remove the oil filter, and if there is any other tool that has some type of special tool because you buy it once you have that more or less you will need to lift the car here there are two things or you can have ramps a ramp is something super easy but it is big and it is a little inconvenient to store them I have them stored but they take up a lot of space too You can do it with the car jack, that is, if you do maintenance on the oil and filters every year, you lift the car with the car jac
k to change the wheel and it could serve you perfectly, but before you put them under the car when you lift it with the cat put jack stands at least these tripods that you usually watch my videos jacks to make sure that your car is not going to fall on you there are many misfortunes of people whose car falls on them please be careful not to get under the cars without them It is insured without a wheel without a wheel, please do not do it once you have more or less the tools to make the changes,
you simply need the parts, I recommend buying them online if you are going to make one change a year, one change every two years, I do not recommend buying online because you are not going to save a fortune. I recommend going to a parts store and buying them, saying, Hey, look, I have this car. I need to make this change and they will directly give you exactly what you need. No. There is going to be confusion at autodoc. It happens a lot when it comes to buying parts when they arrive at your hou
se, this part is of no use to me. It has happened to me on many many occasions, but many of them are with the car half disassembled. Maybe without an oil filter and that the oil filter Oil is not worth it, they have sent me the wrong one at the spare parts store that has never happened to me and if it happens I will go next door to change the part and they will give me a new one without any problem so I recommend you go to a spare parts store if you have one close, if not, well, you won't have t
o buy it online auto dog in given there are a thousand pages where you can buy the parts for your car there are a couple of basic maintenance or oil and oil filter and a couple of other things or oil oil filter oil filter cabin air filter and and this would be a more or less major maintenance the oil that they give you the one specific for your car oil filter fuel filter I do not recommend changing this If you do not know much about mechanics because you can remove the fuel circuit and It's a li
ttle more complicated Now when we get into the fuel filter I 'll tell you later about the Carter screw here they gave me a screw with a gasket as you can see and this would be to remove the Carter screw and insert a new screw don't think about it It's This is worth a lot of money because this is worth less than 2 euros. So if you can change the screw, then the cabin filter, there are two types of activated carbon or normal, the activated carbon supposedly filters a little better and then the air
filter, this would be maintenance. a little bigger normally and I say normally because it can vary but normally it usually has this type of configuration when you see a lot of little tubes this is usually the fuel filter inlets returns this is usually the fuel filter the oil filter It is usually here, I say usually because it varies a lot, there are some that are at the bottom, as you can see, it has a kind of large nut and you need a glass of this size 27 30 32 and then the air filter is usual
ly a box that usually has an inlet or exit from a tube and it usually has a lot of screws and the cabin filter in some cars is at the bottom of the glove box. I'll give you another example, the z4, there you have the oil filter and the air filter, the gasoline filter. In this case it is inside the fuel tank and cannot be changed easily, you have to dismantle half the car, the cabin filter is under there. In other words, you have to remove all this plastic to access the cabin filter, which is in
a slot. Here I give you another example, the Volvo down there, the oil filter, fuel filter and air filter in this one, the cabin filter is there. Just to the right of the pedals it is very difficult to access, there are some things that are easier in some cars than in others, lastly I am going to give you the example of the eclipse, the air filter, the oil filter is down there, and if you look closely, it would come out with your hand directly to this. There is easier access from the bottom than
from the part of the up and the fuel filter is hidden back there. So the fuel filter in the gasoline ones, you see that it is a little more complicated in the eclipse to forget them because there are strange cars like this that do not have cabin filters but more or less you can guess idea, the oil filter is usually there or on the side, you can usually see the gasoline filter with the naked eye, don't mess with it in general, and the air filter is usually a large box, quite simple. First, befor
e doing an oil change, it is to warm up. a little bit , don't heat it up too much, drive the car two or three times simply to make it a little more viscous and when you remove the plug it falls out better, it flows a little better and it drains much better so I have already warmed it up I'm coming from a walk, we're going to raise it and we're going to remove the crankcase plug. As you can see, the ramps are big and storing them is a little more complicated than maybe a couple of tripods or stan
ds. If you have a place like that with an inclination, my house It is inclined downwards because when you raise the car you need the car to be completely straight so that the oil drains well. So if you have an unevenness, perhaps I recommend the ramp. If not, you have to raise the car, remove the plug and then lower it so that lower the car and let it drain well, taking advantage of the unevenness I use ramps step 1 put on gloves because you are going to get dirty step 2 open the oil cap because
when you remove the crankcase cap if you don't have a little bit of air coming in it will start to expel a little oil and it will stain everything, so air enters from above and it will come out well with a constant flow from below. You need a bucket or a container to pour the oil into and then the oil that you put in the engine when you have a bottle. free, you pour this oil into the jug and take it to a clean spot but you need a bucket. This is worth three or four euros for anything at 100 Chi
nese or something like that and I recommend putting a cardboard because it always splashes a little and that way you don't stain anything on Some cars there is a little hole, a little cover that gives you access to the screw or many times the screw is exposed. In most cars there is usually a cover that covers everything so we have to remove this piece of cover and now it usually comes out back to the front. Now the drain nut is always at the bottom of everything. I recommend cleaning it a little
before removing it because if you don't stain the tools, in this case it is a 19 millimeter glass. But it could be a 30 to 50 tor, for example the other day. with my father's it was a 50 hexagonal wrench, look carefully before starting with these things, what size do you have for the crankcase screw, now loosen it ok And once you have it loose you can now [ __ ] unscrew the hub by applying force towards inside and at the end of everything Well, be careful, be careful and that's why you should u
se gloves because if you don't get stains, okay now let it drain good This may take half an hour or so for it to drain well well well well In the meantime we are going to remove the filters, especially starting with the oil filter because the oil has a little bit of oil inside so it also drains Here, take into account the keys Before making any changes, look at what type of key you have, in this case a 32 millimeter glass [Music] this stains a lot so be very careful, put a tray or something like
that or a cardboard or something but this stains a lot so be careful. It is going to drip and drip, put a piece of paper for example and so you don't stain anything, the filter is normally inserted, so a little bit of pressure, you pull it and it comes out, try not to break anything, it has been dismantled in some, it comes out what the cartridge is, it comes out of The central part in this one, for example, goes all together, the central part comes with the gasket for the plug and you simply h
ave to put this on the top part if you have brake cleaner. Cool because it comes in very handy to clean these parts [Music] and now we will return to it to assemble in its place This one was up here but with the spring in the middle [Music] now to assemble you have the new gasket that already comes with the filter, remove the old one and put the new one in its place [Music] okay And now If you can use a piece of paper or something, remove a little bit of excess oil, the less old oil is left in t
he circuit, the better. Then remove as much as possible from the oil filter hole. It doesn't have to be ultra clean either, because in the end it ends up inside the engine. It has areas where a little black oil remains. But with a little paper we can clean it a little and the remains that are down there can be thrown down and since we have the crankcase plug open it comes out from below you can clean it more less like this it could be fine, as I told you, 95% of the mechanics don't even touch th
is. In general, in the workshops, they remove the filter and insert the new one directly and I can tell you that it depends on each car, but generally you get the cartridge. or it comes out whole like now and now if you can pour a drop of oil all over the gasket so that when you press it it moves and it doesn't get caught or bitten or left in the wrong place with a drop of oil all over the rubber gasket it will look much better, you can also [ __ ] the oil that you bought for your car and wet yo
ur finger a little [Music] you already hit the rubber and now it goes inside when it goes in the opposite direction, that is, instead of going down it goes towards At the top, it is recommended that you fill it, there are some that are inserted at the bottom that you fill with oil and then it is easier for you to measure the level of the oil. Now that you tighten it, we put it here in the lid. Normally, you usually put it up here, yes. If you have a dynamometer, you can put the tightening torque
it says, which in this case is 25 newtons, but if you are not sure what tightening torque to set, don't go too far because this is a plastic plug and that's it. I mean, it's not much more than a plug. plastic and a rubber gasket that will not lose oil filter ready we go with the air filter normally either they are star screws or they have clamps that you pull on them and they come loose or they are Towers of 20 of 25 more or less remove the cover and you already have the filter in sight sometim
es the filter is not very bad so sometimes it is changed every two maintenances more or less there is one maintenance that is oil and oil filter and another that would be oil filter oil filter diesel filter and the air filter in this case I am going to change it before changing it I recommend that you vacuum this entire area here because this area here accumulates sand, dust, bugs and other leaves so you take a vacuum cleaner, you will vacuum this a little and it will be perfect Because at the e
nd of the day After all, this is the lung of the car. The cleaner it is, the better [Music] And now again for the new filter site, make sure that it fits well because more than once I have found that the filters are not well adjusted, so make sure that it fits well. adjusted and now it is covered for the site [Music] air filter ready gasoline filter I do not recommend touching it you can gut the circuit and you can damage the fuel pump that you should do it and that you should not You know how t
o prime it so that it starts again. Well, it can get quite messy. So I'll leave this to those of you who know a little more or those of you who want to venture out but keep in mind to have a mechanic nearby if you're going to do it for the first time because Well. I already had to call the mechanic a couple of times to prime the circuit because, well, it's complex. So the filter is here. You have to remove this. In some you have to remove all the tubes first. In others, the tubes have enough pla
y to remove. the lid and lift it a little bit let's see if I can lift the lid without removing all the tubes and now a new filter for the site we have the filter here and we have the gasket here the gasket always remember it we remove the old one we put the new one in and Now we put the filter in its place [Music] and inside I was thinking about filling the filter cylinder a little because if you always fill it you tend not to have to bleed the circuit as much, you don't have that much air so I'
m almost going to add a little bit of diesel inside the cylinder and thus we save ourselves from having to bleed the circuit so much and now we close again, we put screws and that's it [Music] and the gasoline filter is ready then we will turn the ignition several times to try to fill the circuit but when starting be careful because The circuit has already broken down several times for me. Now we go with the cabin filter in the lion, it is relatively easy because it simply has a little cover und
er here, we remove the little cover and it comes out. We have other cars, it is very complicated in this one. You just have to hit it to the right to a cover as you can see and it comes out my brother a few weeks ago he removed it clean everything expired everything so if you don't have it vacuumed now you take the vacuum cleaner and vacuum the entire hole but in this case it's all vacuumed here there are two filters the filter normal and the active carbon one, the active carbon one is black. So
what it does is filter a little more odors and so on, as you can see, it is quite dark and the normal filter is white, to give you an idea, this one cost 18 euros and the normal filter cost 10 euros costs almost twice as much for those of you who live in cities and want the air inside the cabin a little more filtered because the active carbon almost improves Although honestly I have never put it with active carbon because I live in the outskirts . So there is no pollution As they say, but here,
for tastes, this has a left and right position, try if you see that it doesn't fit on one side Well, it's basically on the other side up and now we put the cover back on and that's it, the filter the cabin has changed, how easy it is in this The car in the Volvo is horrible and all the filters would have already been changed. Now we only have to put the cap and put the oil in. In some, it is by changing the entire screw with the washer. In others, only the washer is changed and the screw is reu
sed, but if you look closely It is not a normal washer but rather it has a rubber area and some have a copper washer. So ask your spare parts store for this if they are going to give you the right one. In this case, the nut with washer included here will be leaking like this. You are going to have to clean it a little bit, put the nut on , clean it a little more if you have brake cleaner, then great [Music] [Music] and now tighten if you have dynamometric great, put between 25 and 30 newtons met
ers of tightening torque and it would be perfect for For those of you who do not have a dynamometer, the tightening is very fair, that is, it tightens. But be careful with passing the thread. Because if you pass the thread, then it loses oil. This is still made of aluminum and aluminum is quite fragile and you can pass it quickly. Here there is a question. my brother, for example, one time the leos happened and I lost oil and they put another bigger screw on it. Well, it was a Christ. Nowadays,
I would do it differently. I would go to a scrapyard and look for the new cover. Because this cover. At the end of the day, in In some cars, in some cars it can be changed relatively easily but there is no need to tighten it hard, that is, you give it a little tug and that's it, that's what the washer is for, that's what it's made of aluminum and with the heat it expands and There's no longer any oil coming out of there. It shouldn't. If after a few days you see that it's dripping a little, give
it a little more in case maybe you came up short, but normally that's just a little tug and that's it. I mean, there's no We have to give it a lot more and now we fill up the oil. This will depend on your car. It can take three liters, four, five, six, ten liters. I usually add three and I'll see later with the caliper little by little. Normally, they usually take 5 liters, for example, the Boldo. It takes five and a half, and I suspect that it will take 4 liters because it is a slightly smalle
r engine, it depends a little on the displacement. Also, if you have a 1000 engine, it is not the same as if you have a 3000 engine, it will take a little longer. of oil if it is a larger engine but you can also see this in the workshop manual or you can search for it in the forums on the internet So now you remove the cover and oil inside, be careful not to let it come out on the outside [Music] do not try to run add a lot of it at once because it can come out and you spit everything out and it
turns brown. Normally the cans mark the oil level on the side. So you can see the level it has. I'm missing two liters and I'm going to add half a liter more and we'll see. In the cove that is, how is it going? Well, right now we just added 3 and a half liters. Let's check how it goes. Nothing is still below or even reaching the minimum. So we continue adding [Music] and there it would be. days to check the oil level you still have to refill a little because the oil filter hole is empty right n
ow so part of this oil that is now in the engine goes to the oil filter So just like now it is at the maximum Maybe in a while when I start the car it will recirculate everything will go down a little so I'm checking how the level is and that's it now we're going to turn it on to turn it on if you have changed the fuel filter you have to do it in a specific way when you turn on the ignition the key activates the fuel pump in many cases in most cases So you turn the ignition key, you give it OK a
nd you do it about 7, 8 or 10 times like this supposedly right now It is filling the circuit again and the moment of truth, let's see if it starts perfectly and one of the last things to do in all maintenance is to reset the oil change in the frame so that it notifies us within 15,000 kilometers or a year, for that there are millions of videos on YouTube you can search for a lot of videos of your specific car in El León. The following is how we press the button, turn and once we have given conta
ct, let go and turn to the right and we will have the oil reset for 15,000 kilometers per Lastly, we put the Carter cover back in place and it would be time to collect [Music] now you simply have to monitor the level of the oil for a couple of days, if it is at its level, if you have to add a little, you add the rest to 15,000 kilometers we already have maintenance done, this I wanted to do because family and friends told me that it's good that they couldn't find mechanics that were worth it or
that they didn't trust mechanics. So if you want to do it at home, that's fine. You have the disadvantage that if something happens, you won't. You have the guarantee that a workshop has done it for you. I also don't know to what extent a workshop is going to cover you if something breaks down within a week, but hey, those are other questions. It's not difficult, but you have to follow steps if you follow. The steps are something that you can do on a Saturday morning, for example, as I always te
ll you, if you like it, as I told you, share it, I will thank you very much and I will see you in the next videos. Greetings
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