Re: Changing oil in foot
You can do it any way that works. Used to be that you had the fill inlet hole on the bottom and 1 vent on top (between the anti cav plate and the water shield on the starboard side).<br /><br />You either cut off the end of a tube (16 oz roughly) and squeezed it empty, pulled it out real quick and jabbed another till it came out the top vent. Then without moving anything, you put the top vent screw in and tightened it. Then you pulled the tube out of the bottom and put that plug in.<br /><br />Or, if you were using a quart with a pump the same thing applied; you just pumped rather than squeezed. <br /><br />My manual says don't puke more than one ounce after filling in the removal and sealing process. That's not a problem if you do it as I said.<br /><br />So now with my '02 Merc, I have 2 vents. Fill till the front one pukes, put that plug in, keep filling till the aft one pukes, put that plug in, then very quickly stab the fill hole plug.<br /><br />Proper position for this process is with the engine vertical and yes it is a bit of a doing to get it filled with the drain pan right in your way....but it's been done by millions for half a century and then some. What I usually do is to snug up the top vents, put the fill screw in with my fingers and then tilt the engine up 45 degrees where I can get a really big common (flat blade) screwdriver on the sealing screw.<br /><br />And if you can, always use new gaskets on the screws.<br /><br />HTH.<br /><br />Mark