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Summary: Remove the oil drain plug using specific tools when changing your 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. The next step we will do is to remove the oil drain plug. What we need for that is, we check the size of the drain plug in the bottom of the oil pan to see what diameter and size the nut is. This is a standard metric box and open end wrench set. This truck being made in Japan is all metric so you need to have metric wrenches which are gaged in millimeters. This is a 15 millimeter open end box in wrench. Various sizes usually come in little kit like this."
eHow Article: Tools for Removing the Oil Drain Plug