Subaru Oil Change Good Tips To Prevent Oil Leaks

Here is a do it your self video on changing oil in your Subaru vehicle, with some helpful tips to prevent oil leaks.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Subaru
• legacy
• forester
• impreza
• wrx
• sti
• 2.2
• boxer
• engine
• 2.5
• horizontally
• opposed
• cylinder
• oil
• change
• leak
• crush
• ring
• gasket
• seal
• check

[ycformosa]

Hi, do I really need subaru coolant? I have 98 forester and my car need new coolant

[venturahwy76]

@ycformosa you can use whatever coolant is compatible with what you already have. Prestone makes a coolant that is compatible with all types. I would stay away from anythng marked Dexcool. If you get any air in the system with dexcool it forms a sludge like substance. I have had that problem with it. If you are going to change your coolant you can get a kit to do a reverse flush and then fill it with fresh coolant.

[ycformosa]

@venturahwy76

Thank you for replying my mail. I just replaced coolant two days ago using Prestone. It seem like my drain plug has problem, now is leaking coolant, not much just few drops everytime I park the car.

[venturahwy76]

@ycformosa....Sorry to hear about the leak. The first thing I would do is try opening and closing the valve a few times there is probably some dirt on the valve seal. There may be an rubber o-ring on the drain plug valve that could be changed, or you could just clamp a short piece of tubing on the drain nipple and plug it with a bolt if all else fails.

[ycformosa]

what grade of oil you use? I have 1500000 miles on my forester

[venturahwy76]

@ycformosa I use 5W30 ...what ever is on sale.

You have 150,000 miles? on your forester. Was 1,500,000 a typo?

I was at the local salvage yard last week to get a torsion bar spring for my legacy trunk lid. The operator gave me a list of car in the yard one of the subaru legacy's had 680,000 miles on it, but most had around 150,000 and major body damage.

[playstation2bigs]

Will STP oil treatment blue bottle prolong the life of engine??

[redneckrollercoast1]

why do you use fram?

[2damaxmr2]

Remove the filler cap before you loosen the drain plug.

[24745037]

very helpfull, thanks, peter south wales uk

[Magicseven2001]

Very good video, good detail