Anybody within 300 Miles North of Charleston Able to Help?

Pat,
Most ship's stores will sell the sheets of Oil Absorbent pads. They will probably give you a couple 12x12 sheets at the fuel dock if you're filling up.

I use a plastic bag with 1/2 of an Oil Absorbent sheet inside the plastic bag to go over the filter as I unscrew it. The second sheet is stuffed around the engine to catch drips. The remaining half goes wherever I didn't realize I needed it.

These sheets work really well. They absorb oil/diesel but not water. I have used them to soak up a bilge that had a bunch of diesel fuel in it. It took a bunch of sheets but by the time I was done you really couldn't see any diesel left. I used the red dyed off road diesel so it was easy to see. I have been an advocate ever sense.

I have never changed the lower unit unless it was out of the water. I had a friend did it in waist deep water where he didn't have any wave/boat traffic. He tilted the motor just enough to get a plastic pan under it and used a NPT fitting on the end of the extractor to screw into the bottom drain plug and then took the top plug out and pumped it out with the extractor. He then measured in an old soda bottle how much came out put only that much back in. It worked but it could have been messy if the floating plastic pan got knocked over or he dropped the plug in the water etc.

Bob
 
Pat ,You might want to rethink changing the oil with the boat in the water .The EPA really frowns on oil discharge in the water .I would take Dave D and Dr. Bob's advise Change the oil at 200-250 hr intervals just change out filter at each 100 hour interval if it concerns you . Just check to see how the oil looks and feels. At 2000rpm there is not much load on the engine .Good Luck whatever you decide to do Jim
 
The one important thing I had not mentioned, is to get an oil analysis at the 100, and 200 hour levels. See how the oil is holding up. You can send a sample off, and then have the results E-mailed to you.
 
Is it easy to empty Mightyvac?

I love my $40 Topsider for ease of use and just remove the pump when done, and pour waste oil in a recycle bucket and screw on storage cap. Cleaning the hoses takes a few minutes to drain then storage in baggies. Made to last for many years. Easy to store, too, pump is removed and all in placed inside original box for a small foot print. m2cw
 
Not sure about the Honda's but on my Suzuki I can take a scratch awl and punch a hole at the top of the filter and then one at the bottom and drain the oil into a cup then there is very little oil left when you spin the filter off. My service manual says to change the oil every 100 hours and the filter every 200 hours. At low rpms I wouldnt have an issue with doubling the hours. If you haven't been having any issues with the lower end I would do it every other time as well.
 
So, MAJOR thanks to Benton and Ann Blalock in Newport, North Carolina! We are set up to meet them on Sunday and pull Daydream so we can do all the maintenance at their home! There is also a shower, dinner and a double bed involved here! C-Brats are so great and generous!
 
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