Hello, John Talley here with Boats.net. Today i'm going to show you how
to change the engine oil in our 2009 Mercury 200 XL Verado. Not that tough to
do, let's step over to the table look at the parts and tools we're gonna need, and
then we'll dive into it. So let's go. Guys, really short parts list on this one, but
there is the decision you need to make. Do you want to go with the standard oil
or do you want to go with a synthetic? Well personally, I'm going to go with the
synthetic. The only other piece you need is the oil filter, and if you need this
particular setup, why don't you check the link in the description below and it
will carry you to a shopping cart that's ready to rock. All you need to do is hit
add to cart, checkout, and it'll be on the way to you. Now as far as this tools go,
well there's no real special tools required. As I go through the process,
whatever size tool that I'm using, I'll call it out so you know which one to
pull out of your toolbox. Now that we've got our parts and our tools together,
let's head over there and get this done.
So let's get it tilted up, get that cap off, and get that bolt out.
So we've got our fill cap out, we've got it tilted up, let's go ahead and pull the
drain plug. This is what you do not want to see coming out of your engine. That my
friends is a whole lot of sludge caused by a mixture of oil and water. So we're
gonna let that drain for a while. So obviously we've got some pretty serious
problems going on inside this unit, but the purpose of this video is to show you
how to do an oil change so, believe it or not, we're gonna go ahead and go through
the rest of that procedure. Hopefully your oil did not look like that. So with
that being said, let's drop it down and get the oil filter off of this thing,
This thing holds like 6 quarts, and that looks like of a quart and a half of sludge.
So next, we're gonna change out the oil filter. Make sure that you have either
one of the strap types, or if you really want to be accurate, get one that's a 74
millimeter. Now before we take it off, if you've just
recently run your engine, chances are when you break this seal it's just gonna
make a mess. So what we want to do is preemptively put a rag up in here
try to catch any oil that is still up inside of the filter. Now this motors
been sitting for a while, so chances are there's not going to be anything in
there.
Yeah. Nothing to it. And this is also another good time where you can visually
inspect. I mean, as we knew when we drained it out, it's kind of milky
colored. Same thing here. So this motor does have water intrusion, but we're not
gonna focus in on that right now. I'm just showing you how to do a simple oil
change-- oil and filter change that is. So we'll get the side of the way, and grab
our new filter. I've just got a little bit of oil dabbed on the end of my
finger, and we just want to run that around the ring is mounted to the bottom
of the filter. We're just going to get it hand tight and then we're going to use
our wrench and carry it an additional 3/4 to one turn. So that's going to be
half, and we're gonna do a quarter. And that should do it.
Now we just need to refill it. So we're getting ready to refill it, and the
quantity it actually holds is six point three quarts. That should put it right in
the middle of the the crosshatch area on our dipstick.
We know this engine has a problem, so I'm not going to go through the pain of
filling up and throwing away six quarts of oil. We're just gonna dump in one, and
then I'll walk you through checking the level. Now you can go with conventional
oil, but Mercury actually recommends for this unit the synthetic. Now the
procedure to check this correctly is the engine has to be cold or it hadn't been
run in at least an hour. So what you would actually do, let's go and pop out
your dipstick, raise it up,
let it rest there for just a few seconds, maybe 30 seconds tops.
What you're trying to do is get it to drain down into your sump because that's
what we're actually gonna check the level. With that done, drop it back down,
bring it close to vertical. Pop in your dipstick, lift it back out. What you're
looking for is the level to be somewhere in this cross-hatched area,
I'd say toward the middle-- from the middle toward the higher end is what I
usually aim for. Alright guys, really simple procedure here, and that pretty
much wraps this one up. Well listen, if you need any parts for your boat, why
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