Hello, John Talley here with boats.net. Today I'm going to walk you through the
process to do an oil change-- with a filter-- on our 2012 Moomba Mobius LSV.
It's really not that tough to do, just need to step over to the table
show you the tools and the special parts that we're going to need to pull this off, so let's go.
All right guys, the oil we decided to go with is a synthetic blend from Mercury,
and it's a 25W40 weight oil, and it is made for this type of engine specifically.
Now as far as the oil filter, we chose one from Sierra,
and it should do a fine job keeping that oil clean that's circulating around that engine.
Now regarding the special tools, you will need to pick up a fluid extractor. Now we carry several
different makes and models on the site. You just need to find one that holds at least eight quarts,
because I'm pretty sure that's how much we're going to extract out of this engine.
Well now that we've got our parts and our tools ready to go, let's go dive into this project.
All right guys, this is actually really simple to do. There's two different ways we can actually
extract the oil out of it: you can go through the the dipstick, or they provided a line right here
and that's the method I’m going to go with. We're going to snake our extraction hose down inside of
this hose and then pull the oil out. Now I do want to tell you, if you can, warm up the engine first
because this is going to take a while if you're going to try to do it with the engine cold.
That is the case here because we didn't have way to heat it up prior to the boat coming in.
So it's going to take longer, but I'm using a extractor that is connected to an air source
so I've got the time. Now if you're using a manual extractor, you definitely want to heat
up this engine oil first or you're going to be there a very, very long time. All we're going to
need to do is just pull the end off of this hose, and then put the extractor hose down inside of it.
All right guys, the method I'm going to go with is actually just inserting
the extractor tube, and this particular one fits inside of this pickup tube
really tight. And we want that because we're going to use the tube itself to extract out the oil.
All right guys, we've got our extractor hooked up, but let's go ahead and remove the oil fill cap
so that won't impede it from pulling the oil out. There we go.
So we've got our extractor hooked up and air pressure ready to go. I'm just going
to turn it on and it'll start pulling it out. Now before you get started,
if yours has a scale on the side of it, why don't you make a note as to where it is. That way you
can see what kind of progress you're making as it pulls all that oil out of there. So let's go.
All right guys, the extractor has done its job and it probably extracted somewhere in between four
to maybe five and a half quarts. So we can easily go ahead and put back in four without fear of
overfilling it. Before we do that, we need to reinstall this cap and then pour in some oil.
Now could you have done this without an extractor? Yes, but not on every
model because some of them-- I think was 2005 through '07--
the hoses weren't quite long enough to make it out through the drain plug in the transom.
So there is an alternative way: if you're really patient, you can just feed it through there
and then, you know, let it drain overnight because it's going to take it a while. Me? I'm a little
impatient so I went with the extractor. Doesn't need to be super tight, just snug.
Now you would definitely need a fairly long skinny funnel to get this in here,
because that hose is right on top of the fill hole. But that should work. As I said,
we pulled out at least four quarts, so we can easily dump in a gallon to begin with.
All right, next let's go ahead and address the oil filter, and then we'll come back and top it off,
at least get it in the ballpark. Because you will need to run your boat for just a couple of minutes
to get the oil circulating, make sure that the oil filter is completely saturated, and then
you can get an accurate level check on it. Now the oil filter on this particular boat is nice
and easy to access: up front and center toward the front of the motor on the starboard side.
Right there.
We're just going to use a regular oil filter wrench to remove it.
Whoever put this on way overdid it. There she is. Wow.
I think Arnold Schwarzenegger may have tightened that one down.
Now so we don't make a big mess, we're just going to put a ziploc bag around it and then unscrew it.
But since this boat wasn't warmed up prior to, it's probably not going to be that much.
If you did run your boat, yeah, you're going to have to have a ziploc bag.
Yep, we're good.
All right. Next we just need to reinstall the new oil filter. What we're going to do is go ahead and
fill it up, more or less primes the filter. And then we want to put a light coat of oil
around this seal, then we're going to take it hand tight and then maybe a half a turn. Certainly not
the amount of torque that the previous person did
on that other one because that one just about didn't come off. It was on there way too tight.
So like I said, what I did is I filled it up roughly to the top. Now we're going to
take a little bit of extra and put it around on the seal itself. Now let's get her reattached.
Hand tight, and now we're just going to put a half a turn on it, and that'll be more than enough.
That'll do it. Next let's see where our oil level is so we can at least get it in the ballpark.
All right, so we're right at the midway point.
I think we can go ahead and put in roughly a quart and that should do it.
But like I said, after you've run it for a little while, a few minutes, then let it
set for two or three minutes, then check it one more time once you're out on the water.
Let's see if that gets us to the top mark.
Right on it.
Now we just need to get our cap back on. All right guys, that's going to wrap up
this little project. All we have to do now is head out to the water, run it for a few minutes,
and then recheck that oil level. Well listen, if you need any parts or
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