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Summary: Use a floor jack on your car when changing a car's oil; our expert car mechanic explains how in this free auto-maintenance video on DIY oil changes.
Mark Sullivan has been a professional automotive mechanic and high performance engine builder for 16 years. Mark was trained as an auto-union mechanic and has worked professionally as...read more
"Hi, I'm Mark Sullivan for Expert Village and today we're going to teach you how to change the oil in a standard internal combustion automobile engine. Okay, so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to position the floor jack under a frame member of the truck. Okay, so now we position the jack under a frame member of the truck. There's a couple of places we could lift this, but I'm just going to put it right underneath a major frame part just to lift the truck. Okay, so now we're lifting the jack. Now we'll just continue lifting this. I'm going to lift this higher than we normally would so that we can see what we're doing."
eHow Article: How to Use a Floor Jack