Cool video. How much oil does the main engine take for an oil change? Also, do you do oil changes under way with the wing powering the boat, or do you wait until you are in port or at anchor? Thank you and be safe.
The main takes about 10 gallons. And we do not change oil underway or stop to change oil. We were advised that if we are underway when an oil change is due that we should wait until the next time we shut the engine off. So, if we have 50 more hours underway then we would keep going. I generally plan for this though and would change the oil early if we were close.
We store the used oil in a 65 gallon tank on board. When new oil is pumped from buckets to the new oil tank we then pump the used oil into those empty buckets. When we are in Florida we take the used oil to the county hazardous waste drop off. I believe they then recycle it.
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Great video thanks.
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Cool video. How much oil does the main engine take for an oil change? Also, do you do oil changes under way with the wing powering the boat, or do you wait until you are in port or at anchor? Thank you and be safe.
The main takes about 10 gallons. And we do not change oil underway or stop to change oil. We were advised that if we are underway when an oil change is due that we should wait until the next time we shut the engine off. So, if we have 50 more hours underway then we would keep going. I generally plan for this though and would change the oil early if we were close.
What happens to used oil ? can it be recycled/filtered for reuse ?
We store the used oil in a 65 gallon tank on board. When new oil is pumped from buckets to the new oil tank we then pump the used oil into those empty buckets. When we are in Florida we take the used oil to the county hazardous waste drop off. I believe they then recycle it.
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Done. Thanks for pointing that out. I forgot on this vid.