How to Drain Engine Oil

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Doug, I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Okay now that it's up on the rack, we're going to grab an oil drain pan and a container there; it can hold 5 gallons of waste oil in there. Dave's got the right size of wrench there and he's loosening up the oil plug. The oil plug is pretty obvious, make sure you've got the one for the engine and not the transmission. They're usually pretty hard to get mixed up, usually the transmission is really hard to get to. Dave is lowering the car so that it gets closer to the bird bath there so the oil doesn't go spraying all over the floor. You loosen up that plug and you know as much as you can get your hand out of the way so that you don't get hosed with oil. Be prepared for about 5 quarts to come out of there. Check your motor oil level before you check the oil change. It'll help you keep track of oil consumption if you have an oil consumption with your car, so you'll keep track of it that way. The place where you bought your motor oil, I think in most cases is obligated by law to take back your waste oil, so don't kill bushes with it, don't keep the dust down on your road, take it back."