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Any reason I cannot just drain the engine oil ( warmed up of course) now and then fill it up at the beginning of the season?
Not sure why but if you do just don't forget to add the oil in spring.
Don't do that...... those critical surfaces will have possibly contaminated oil on them......If you're going to do that then just drain it in the spring.
There is no benefit to draining it now.
All the critical surfaces will still have old oil on them.
Yes, several...Any reason I cannot just drain the engine oil ( warmed up of course) now and then fill it up at the beginning of the season?
I just do it all in the spring. There's nothing in used oil that's gonna hurt the engine, and the oil probably has a lot less than 60 hours on it.
Heck, we store aircraft that way for months at a time, and those turbines cost an arm and a leg. (But then again, the big ones NEVER get the oil changed.)
LOL, and if it was THAT bad for an engine, my 55 gal waste oil drum would have deteriorated to NOTHING by now.
Further, oil drains to the sump on engines with no oil pressure. That's where it stays until you fire it up again. A little will remain, but not much at all. I'm sure the Chevy motor will handle it just fine.
[h=2]Is it better to change my engine oil/gear lube at the beginning or end of the season?[/h] It is better to change the oil and gear lube at the end of the season, prior to storage. Lubricants naturally accumulate moisture, combustion by-products, and other contaminants during use. It can be detrimental to store an engine or drive with large amounts of these contaminants present.
Well, I won't disagree here........Mercury, Volvo, Nissan, Tohatsu, 'Rude, IMHO don't really suggest replacing the oil because they think it's reached it's service life as much as they suggest doing it to check at the end of the season for water intrusion etc.It's just wasteful, IMHO, to change an advanced synthetic oil with 75% of its usable service life remaining.