Hello everybody it's Lurgs here. Welcome to my channel and today changing the oil
and the oil filter on a Vespa GTS 300 and this will be the same on a Vespa GTS 250
And this is me and I'm just going to go for a quick ride and it's important
that you keep your Vespa in tip-top condition and you should be changing the
oil and a new oil filter at least once a year regardless of how much you use it
anyway before we get started on this job there's have a nice cup of tea.
'Hey careful man there's a beverage here huh'
Now what you're gonna need you're going to need a brand new oil filter HF183 and you're
gonna need some fully synthetic oil and you're gonna need a new O-ring for your
sump plug in case that gets damaged now there's two schools of thought here
one which says you should start up your engine make sure it's nice and hot and
then the oil will drain quicker because obviously it gets thinner and the other
school of thought is drain it when the oil is cold because then you haven't run
it and all the muck and gunge at the bottom of the engine just gets thrown up
inside it again whereas if it's cold all the engine all the muck and bits and
bobs will be at the bottom of the engine so I'm actually gonna drain it cold so
there is the sump drainage plug there and I've just got a funnel here and a
pot make sure that's obviously 1.3 liters because you do not want that to
overflow and I've got 15\16 on here on the sump plug so first of all
just undo that once you've undone it with that spanner then just do it with
your fingers and then make sure you've got everything ready
once you've everything ready then just carry on undoing it with your fingers
and let the oil drain now this will take a good couple of minutes obviously it'll
come out fast to start with so basically it's just sit and wait for a little
while
and there we go we've got the oil draining into that pot and this is about
3 or 4 minutes later now what you can do now which you need to do is take
out the extra oil filter plastic filter which is inside just pull it with some
pliers and just make sure this is in good
condition hasn't if it's got any bits in it obviously try and remove those give it
a good clean this has also got a rubber O-ring
on the end this one actually looks in good condition that shouldn't ever get
damaged but so you're just checking for bits of dirt, obviously any bits of metal
would be bad news but this one looks good just going to clean it up a little
bit and then to get out the remaining bits just lean the Vespa over towards
you now it's probably advisable to let somebody help you do this obviously I'm
on my own and filming because you do not want the Vespa to fall on you because
it's 150kg and this is the old oil that I've just taken
out and incredibly it's really quite black so you don't realise how dirty and
used it is until you pour in the new oil and think wow it's like golden syrup
it's lovely so this is the sump plug which I've
taken out and you can see the rubber O-ring in there so you can just pull
that out just with a small screwdriver and now we just need to get the old oil
filter off now this one that I've got on the Vespa here's actually got a nut on
it so you can get a spanner on it which is really good the new one
I've bought hasn't got that so undo the oil filter a little bit and then just
unscrew it with your hands gently and just let that drip into your pot again
and I've got the oil filter off there so again it's just a waiting game just
letting the oil drip into that pot
and this is the old oil filter that I've just removed as you can see it's very
very rusty so that's not good so it's a good job I'm changing it and this is the
sump plug so I'm just going to give that a clean and that's the old O-ring so just
get an old toothbrush give that a good old clean and then just a tissue so get
your new O-ring just put a bit of oil on it with your fingers and then put it
back in that sump plug obviously if you're buying all the equipment at the
beginning make sure you've got an O-ring spare you do not want to take that off
and find that that is in bad condition so just put the plastic internal oil
filter back in it doesn't screw in it basically just pushes just give it a
twist until it goes don't force it there we go
that just pops in there good stuff
alright now take out your brand-new oil filter
as you can see there hasn't got a nut on this one, just got a wedge kind of hole
in it we can buy special tool but I didn't bother so this actually is already
lubricated you can put some extra oil on that rubber seal if you want with your
fingers but I'm not going to and again just put this on by hand make sure
you've got the thread good and just tighten up as hard as you can with your
hands and once you've tightened it up as hard as
you can then you just need to get another small turn on it with either an
oil filter wrench or I just got this giant it's not a screwdriver it's one of
those things that you bash stone with, can't remember what it's called, but I'm just gonna
give it a quick quarter of a turn with that and there you go there is an actual
torque setting for that which actually is 27 to 33 Newton meters or 20 to 24
foot-pounds now put the sump plug back in again do it up with your fingers to
start with make sure you obviously don't ever want to cross thread that so get
that in and then we need to tighten that up to a torque setting you don't have to
I mean I advise you if you haven't got a torque wrench just don't over tighten it
don't go mad but I've got a torque wrench here and I'm going to tighten
this up to 24 to 30 Newton meters or 18 to 22 foot-pounds
all right there we go now what I'm going to do now is I'm just gonna put in one
whole liter whole bottle of fresh new oil obviously when you've drained the
Vespa you won't get absolutely everything out so don't just go pouring
in exactly 1.3 liters because you might overfill it and then that's not good so
let's put in this new oil and look at the colour of that, oh, and the Vespa is going mmmm, yum yum
yum yum lovely fresh oil for me for my engine you don't realise how bad the old
oil is until you put in fresh oil so that's a whole liter in there now just
clean up the dipstick just with a tissue or an old rag and that's got a
rubber O-ring on it as well but that shouldn't ever corrode but it's
obviously worth checking that just screw that back in and then I'm just going to
start the Vespa up let it run for 5 minutes and let the engine get hot now
the most important thing here is that the engine light goes out if it doesn't
turn it off immediately but the engine light's gone out that's a good sign I'm
just going to let it warm up now what we're going to do now is this is really
important just lay underneath the Vespa for a couple of minutes and
just look at that sump plug and oil filter, just make sure you've got no leaks
obviously the engine's running there's pressure in there oil pressure and engine
pressure if there's any leaks it will start leaking out of there and you know you just need to
tighten it up just a tiny bit but this one is looking great there's no leaks from
the oil filter or the oil sump plug so that's looking really good so you can
see the engine is nice and warm there now what we're going to do now is just
turn it off and then we're just going to check the oil
now obviously take take the dipstick out give that a clean and then screw it back
in and then check it and basically just keep repeating that process and then you
might have to just top it up a little bit so this is kind of halfway so that's
not enough so just get your second bottle of oil and it's got a, it's got
guage down the side so I'm just going to put in 200ml so I
know that I've put in 1.2 liters just in case there's still some oil left in there
so I know that I'm not over filling it so you do not want to overfill it so
I'm just gonna put in 200ml here so that's the first 50 odd
so let's just put a bit more in
there we go so I've put in 1.2 liters which should be perfect and then later
on I can take it for a run and then if it's a little bit empty still I can just
put in the extra 100ml, so again I'm just going to run it again
make sure there's no leaks really important while it's running just make
sure you check that again just check the dipstick dry it off screw it all the way
back in check it again just repeat the process and that is looking absolutely
perfect just on the maximum absolutely perfect just screw that back in just
hand tight and after all that hard work and a great job people I think it's time
for another cup of tea. 'Hey careful man there's a beverage here huh'
beautiful and then I'm just gonna wash my hands with
some Swarfega because this stuff is magic not only does it get all the oil off your
hands it smells fantastic as well so just give them a wash and that is how
you change the oil and the oil filter on your Vespa GTS 300.
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