Oil Pressure Switch Replacement with Basic Hand Tools 1080HD

All right, so once you have the vehicle secured on, in this case, a jack stand and a jack as well, right here we have the oil pan. This is, in fact, the lead or the wire running to the oil pressure unit here. And an easy way to find it, of course, here's your oil filter. This, again, is your oil pan. This is where you drain the oil. And if you take a look right up here, it's obviously leaking quite bad. So this really needs to be replaced. So the first step is we need to, of course, remove this lead. And it's so darn dirty, it's very hard for you to see. But right here, I mean, this rubber boot is essentially disintegrated. I really need to replace this. But right here, there's a prong. You push in the prong. It's on my thumb. And then you just pull off the harness. And also, what I'm going to do off camera is I'll clean up this lead right here. But this is where the unit is located. So we need to remove it. Now, in this case, this happens to be a 27 millimeter or a 7 8ths of an inch socket. You can't really use anything else but a socket. And make sure you have a deep socket as well, because a short socket won't work like so. This happens to be a 27 millimeter, half inch drive. So we'll remove the old unit, install the new one, and we'll be in good shape. And real quick before we begin, just make sure you place an oil pan, a drain pan right underneath, because oil will come out when the sensor is removed. And let's go ahead. Let's do it. Let's remove the sensor here. Again, this is a 27 millimeter. This vehicle, make sure it's on there securely. And really, it's not hard to remove. And that should be good enough to remove it by hand. I'm just going to back up here for a little bit. Sent to my drain pan. Just take it out slowly here. And of course, here's our old sensor. And real quick, what I'll do is I'll just clean it up here. All right. So now we have the new sensor. Here it is. This happens to be a 22 millimeter size. In this case, the old one, if you recall, is 27. In this case, this is 22. So just make sure you have the correct sockets before you do this job, because you don't want to get jack up the car, get on your back and then find out that you don't have the right sockets. So just double check when you do this on your vehicle, make sure you have everything beforehand. And also one thing to know, if you take a look on the threads, there's a thread lock on there. Make sure, excuse me, Teflon tape. And this came right from the factory. So just make sure you put a little bit of Teflon tape. If you don't have it, if the sensor doesn't have the Teflon on there, just go ahead and put a little bit on. This helps ensure that when you install the sensor, it won't leak. So just make sure it's on there. And then we'll go ahead and just reinstall it right back onto the vehicle. These cars today can really last for a very, very long time, as long as you maintain them. And that's really the key. And then just go ahead, reinstall the new sensor here, and grab your socket. And then of course, don't forget the electrical connection. And just go ahead, plug that in here. That's it. Now the rubber piece, you notice it just completely ripped off. So what I'll do is, off camera, I'm going to just wrap around the sensor, and then I'll just put a zip tie around it. That way it protects the connection here. And of course, don't forget to reinstall any oil that we lost. So let's go ahead and do that.