How NOT to change your own oil

[skindog44]

Hey Mike, just saw your post, I run it into a 5 gallon bucket, then with a funnel put it into a milk jug. Doing my V-drive change now. From one L-town boy to another, good luck, see you next spring on the Snake!

[IDBoating]

One more thing: With an extractor pump it's not necessary to run the hose through the hull drain. (I mention this because the photo earlier in this thread shows one of these pumps being used with its hose going through the hull drain.) I just set the pump on the floor of the passenger compartment and connect to the oil pan drain hose right through the engine hatch. Hard to imagine an easier way.

My boat lives on the lake the entire summer and this approach allows me to change the oil with the boat still in the water - which is what the engine manufacturers recommend so you get a valid reading on the dipstick. I put over 100+ hours on our new 24Ve last season which required me to change the oil twice, and both times I did it with the boat sitting by my dock right in the water. There is absolutely no reason to pull the boat just to change the oil/filter anymore.

Oil changes were something I worried about when getting an inboard but this is seriously easier, faster, and cleaner than any car or truck I've ever owned.



Hope this helps!

[SPBFAN]

Here's the hot ticket a vacuum evacuator.

OTC TOOLS

With that you should be pulling the oil from the Top Side it is 4 times faster. Just use a piece of hose to go over the dip stick and then hook up the vacuum evacuator and away you go.

[rushin]

I made a extension hose to connect to the hose on the pan. So when the hose sticks out the bilge drain it goes past the taps plate and right into the drain pan.

[skippabcool]

I made a extension hose to connect to the hose on the pan. So when the hose sticks out the bilge drain it goes past the taps plate and right into the drain pan.

That is a good idea.

[Super B]

Here's the hot ticket a vacuum evacuator.

Worth its weight in gold. I have one, and I cannot beleive I lived so long without one!!

[ajholt7]

OTC TOOLS

With that you should be pulling the oil from the Top Side it is 4 times faster. Just use a piece of hose to go over the dip stick and then hook up the vacuum evacuator and away you go.

If you put a piece of hose over the dipstick tube you won't get all of the oil out.

[talltigeguy]

If you put a piece of hose over the dipstick tube you won't get all of the oil out.

I think he means that you put the hose into the dipstick tube, and the hose will get down to the bottom of the oil pan...so you do get all of the oil out. Using one of the attachments in his picture.

At least that is how I have been doing it and seem to get all of the oil out. Or at least when I put the recommended amount of oil back in, the dipstick reads just full and no higher, and seems perfectly clear.

[robert theisen]

The only real difference between putting a tube down the dipstick tube and using the drain tube is diameter of the tube.If you use the drain tube the oil will come out faster.If you drain it like W A says [in the water]that would be fastest.Reason is you warm the motor disconnect drain tube end and attach pump and its done in 5 minutes or less.Oil filter will take same amount of time.Remember there is more than one way to do it right.So choose the way "YOU" like the best.