[C320-list] OIL CHANGE

[Pat Moriarty]

I also love my Perkins but it has a drain plug also and I figure if 
you pull the engine you could use it. The Yanmar people would cry if 
they heard how quite these old engines are. In San Diego my wife and 
I were both surprised as how loud the boats were especially at low RPM.

Pat #130

At 12:18 PM 11/8/2007, you wrote:
>Say what you may about the Perkins engines, the oil pan has no drain 
>plug.  Instead there is an oil drain pipe that comes from the pan 
>and is located just fwd of the oil filter.  I suck the oil out 
>through this with a barb fitting and a vacuum pump from WM.  I get 
>nearly all the oil out this way.Easy as pie.
>
>I tried the through the dip stick tube and was never happy with 
>that.  I don't think I got all of the oil this way.
>
>Still, the horizontal oil filter is a major complaint.
>
>Warren & Pattie Updike
>C320, #62, 1994, "Warr De Mar"
>Frog Mortar Creek, Middle River
>Chesapeake Bay

Pat Moriarty
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