like we said before oil is the lifeblood of your engine doesn't matter how much power you make if
you don't take care of your oil changes your engine is eventually going to fail so when do
you change the oil in your 2018 and up mustang well every 5000 miles is always a good number
but these cars do have an intelligent oil monitoring system it's gonna basically
tell you to change it between three and ten thousand miles again depending how you drive
but how do you change the oil well today we're going to show you how
so the process for changing the oil in your 2018 through 2022 mustang gt
or your 20 through 21 mach 1 is going to be the exact same process ford did make a change
though in 2021 to recommended oil and we'll discuss that when it comes time to fill it up
first going to do is pop this belly pan down you actually can sort of reach up over it
it's easy to make a mess this is four screws it makes it much easier
the oil drain for the pan is located right here in the back there's no tools
needed to remove this you can reuse the original one or you can upgrade
to a upr if you wanted to at the time but this pan here holds 10 quarts of oil
so make sure whatever drain pan you're using can support 10 cores because that was new for 2018.
now if you are reusing your original oil pan plug again take a close look
at that o-ring just make sure there's no damage to it then it's ready to go back on
the car so let's get down to a very slow drip grab our plug put it back in turn it
until it locks on the stop let's clean up any little drip on the bottom of the pan there
and then we're ready for the filter our oil filter is located right here just in front
of the power steering rack i should mention our car does have a mishimoto oil cooler on it so
there is a sandwich plate between our filter and the engine but the location is exactly the same
alright again have a drain pan underneath this because oil will come out but grab the
filter the previous engine oil change was done right you should be able to turn off by hand
it will start to drip when you thread it about halfway out
at this point you're just gonna get a little oil in your hand
spread it off and then dump it in your pan
all right get a little bit of oil in the filter housing
put it on the new filter and put it up in place and thread it on
so you're ready to fill the car with oil you want to check the oil cap this
is where ford minute change in 2021 they actually switched recommended oil to 5w30
if you look at the manual for the previous years it will say for extreme or heavy use
530 is fine but they recommended the 520 but again in 2021 they switched and i do recommend 5 30.
honestly either one will be fine our car calls for 520 so he needs 520. i also should
mention at this point if you do have an oil separator now's the time you want to drain it
okay now last step we're going to check the oil clean the dipstick off
make sure it's between two dots there it is we're good to go
even if you don't usually work on your car doing an oil change on these cars
is extremely easy as long as you can get the car off the ground with ramps
or whatever there's not even any tools required for the job which makes it even
easier for the first time mechanic but as far as oil changes go it's something
you do want to do it's the best way to keep your car running for years to come
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