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How to change your car's oil the right way
Follow this step-by-step walkthrough to changing your oil the right way. Plus, more car DIYs and how-tos for you.
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Watch as Engineering Explained walks us through a differential fluid change in his personal Honda S2000 in great detail. A differential is one of a car's most important moving parts. It's the thing that takes the torque from the car's driveshaft, and distributes it among the driven wheels. Since …
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