Changing oils
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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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I'm looking through the previous owner's service receipts on my 03
Bayliner 185 (4.3L) boat. The dealer is charging $600 to change the
engine and drive oils.
The reason they get the name "Stealership".
Change the oil yourself! go to harbourfeight.com they sell a standup
oil pump for $20.
The outdrive can be the hardest, there are two cap screws one at the
bottom and one at the top, take them both out and let it run. If you
have a reservoir in the engine compartment for outdrive oil, you can put
the bottom cap screw back in and fill it from the engine compartment -
but it runs SLOW! Or you squeeze it in by the tube, they also sell an
adapter hose that screws into the cap screw hole and connects to quarts
of gear oil.
Use good quality 30 weight oil in the engine.
By all means get a manual!
Where did you get that outdrive fill procedure? It doesn't sound right to
me.
Its called a short cut -
according to the manual you are supposed to put the oil in from the bottom
and fill to the top - a royal PITA! I did this for years, then realizes
that I could fill it from the engine compartment reservoir and it would
drain down. After changing the oil and doing it this way, you WILL have
to top off the reservoir after the first run, but I never have seen it get
so low as to throw a light.
However YOU assume the risk!
No thank you.
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