How To Change Engine Oil and Filter 2000-07 Ford Taurus 3-0L V6
Created on: 2010-11-16
Learn how to properly change the oil and the oil filter with the help of this video. Follow along and complete this repair yourself!
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step 1 :Drain the oil
- Open your oil cap.
- Use a 16 mm wrench to remove the drain plug and drain your oil into a catch pan.
- Replace the drain plug and use a new washer to create a good seal.
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step 2 :Remove the filter
- Move your catch pan under the oil filter
- Use a filter wrench or some finesse and elbow grease and your hands to remove the oil filter.
- Clean up the area.
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step 3 :Install your new oil filter.
- Fill your oil filter with fresh oil (this only applies if the filter installs vertically, otherwise skip this step)
- Coat the gasket with oil to create a good seal.
- Install the filter.
- IMPORTANT: Make sure you get the filter threaded on correctly; it’s easy to miss-thread the filter if your hands are slippery and your car won’t like it very much if the filter pops off when you start it up.
- Use a funnel and pour in the recommended quantity to start. (You can find out how much oil your vehicle takes in the owners manual)
- Check your dip stick.
- Fill until halfway between the minimum and max line.
- Close the cap and fire up the vehicle and let it idle for a few moments.
- Check the oil again, if you were not able to fill your filter before hand, it will be noticeably lower.
- Fill it up to half way between max and min on your dipstick.
- Take the car for a test drive and check your oil one more time and take a look to make sure there are no leaks and your gasket and washer made a reliable seal.
Use kitty litter to clean up spilt oil in a pinch. Only check the dip stick level when the car is level.
Tools needed
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Funnel
Oil Filter Wrench
16mm Socket
Jack Stands
Drain Pan
Ratchet
Floor Jack
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In this video, we're going to be showing you how to change the oil on this 2001 Ford Taurus with a 3 liter v-6. Tools you'll need are 16mm wrench or a socket and ratchet, a oil filter wrench, obviously a catch pan and you probably will want a jack and jack stand to raise the car as well as 6 quarts of oil and a filter. You want to raise the vehicle and start underneath. There are 2 pans here. This is your oil pan here and your transmission pan. This is your oil drain plug here. It's a 16mm. Put the wrench on, this bolt seems to be a little tight so I'm going to use a small hammer, either use a larger wrench or a hammer; loosen up. What you can do as you're pulling the plug out just push it in towards the pan and pull it right out. We'll let that drain. What you can do as you're pulling the plug out just push it in towards the pan and pull it right out and we'll let that drain. You can see we drained the oil and now it's dripping slowly. We're going to put the plug back in nice and tight. Now I'm actually filming from the passenger's side of the vehicle. This is the exhaust pipe and here is your drain plug. This is toward the front of the vehicle. You can see your oil filter is right up in here.
Sneak my filter wrench up above the starter and start and loosen the filter. I can reach up with my hand and loosen the filter. You press the filter against the engine until you feel that it's off then bring it straight down. As you can see I didn't spill any oil. Now I'm close up in here, it's a little hard to see, but where the filter connects the engine you want to reach up there and you can feel right here the threads were it connects to the engine, just use a paper towel or clean rag to try and wipe as much of the oil off as possible. Make sure it's nice and clean around the edges. Here's my new filter. I just poured some oil right on top of it. I just want to take and spread the oil right around the gasket, give that gasket a good coating of oil. Then put it right up in there. You spin it on until it gets hand tight and then take your oil filter wrench again and put it up in there. Then try and spin it about another half turn or so, so it's nice and tight. Up top here, obviously your oil fill on this car says nice and bold, "Use 5W/20 oil." I like to pull the dip stick out and wipe it off, get all the dirty oil you can off. We'll put in 4 quarts of oil to start. We put in 4 quarts and you can see where it's just now up to the minimum line now.
See the oil stop right there, so we'll put in that 5th quart. Now it's creeping up at least to the middle of the cross hatch. It will take a little while to get down there, but let's check it one more time. You can see right now it's right in the middle. What we'll do is we'll start the engine up. When you start your engine up what you want to watch is this light over here, that's the oil indicator and it goes off. Let the engine run for 4 or 5 seconds. Let it circulate the oil pretty good. Now check it. It's right around the minimum, so we'll add one more quart and be set to go. As far as disposing of your wasted oil there are a few options. Many local transfer station or dumps have a place where you can pour waste oil. Also, you might be able to find a repair shop that will have a tank that you can pour the waste oil into. I actually take mine to a friend who has a heater that heats his garage with waste oil. He lets me dump it right into the tank and it gets recycled and reused again.
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