How Do You Replace The Oil In An Outboard Motor During The Winter?
A winter oil change may be the final step in your last cruise of the season, or it might be part of your winter maintenance. Crucial to a winter oil change is starting your motor and warming it up to its normal operating temperature. This stirs up the contaminants in the oil, mixing them into the the oil so that, when you drain the oil from your engine, the contaminants–bits of metal and carbonized oil–can drain with the oil instead of laying in the bottom of the crankcase, forming a sludge that will cause further damage to your motor. Remove the prop from your motor by removing the propeller nut with a propeller wrench and slipping the propeller from the propeller shaft. Connect a garden hose to the flushing attachment for your motor. Set the flushing attachment over your motor’s water intake ports and turn the water on full force. Start your motor and allow it to warm up until your temperature gauge shows that it has reached the normal operating temperature range. When it reaches i
