How to Add Oil to Your Car

Video Transcript

"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. Now we have successfully tightened up the oil drain plug and we have reinstalled the new oil filter and now we are prepared to, two things we need to do still. One; we need to fill up the motor with oil. I would recommend cleaning off the inside of the cap and then we're going to simply open the quart of oil. The thing you want to make sure of is that you do not drop the cap into that hole. This cap many times can fall into the hole, it would be a problem. So you simply pour your fresh oil into the top of the valve cover. You see how it's nice and looks like honey and it is cleaned? We're going to go ahead and dump all of this oil into our motor. The oil is like the blood of the motor."