All:<br /><br />Last year had the boat winterized, this year did myself. 1989 OMC Cobra 5.0 Good advice here on the forums, plus reading the "frickin" manual.<br /><br />Ran on muffs, shut off, then changed oil with the dipstick pump. Cool, except I still got some oil leak in the bilge when I removed the oil filter. PUt in 6 quarts of sae30 as the manual says.<br /><br />Here are my observations on changing the gear oil.<br /><br />1. I bought an impact screwdriver to remove the bottom screw to drain the oil. $9 well spent.<br /><br />2. Put down the drive, removed the top screw and the oil drained s-l-o-w-l-y. It was hard to get the catch container under the outdrive in the down position.<br /><br />3. The color was deep dark green. I thought it was clever to color it differently than the motor oil. Not milky or cloudy--really deep/rich color.<br /><br />4. When I removed the fill plug (OMC's have 3--top/dipstick, bottom/drain, middle/fill) the magnetic plug did have some shavings attached. I pinched off with my finger/thumb. Not huge, but more than bottom plug. Is this normal?<br /><br />5. Upon conflicting advice, I "RTFM" and filled from the middle tube, leaving the dipstick out so it wouldn't airlock. OTher advice said fill from the bottom. Seemed to work ok. I bot the Penzoil lube with the pump with the bottle. Put in 2 quarts. Let sit for 20 minutes, checked dipstick. OK. Re started with muffs on, ran for few minutes. Shut off, then let it sit and checked motor oil and gear lube and they were ok on teh dipstick.<br /><br />Question: Last lube was deep dark green, new lube is yellow/golden. IS that just the color, or will it become green, or was my last lube REALLY OLD?<br /><br />6. This upcoming weekend I'll do the anti-freeze--a pal does his with a utiity/sump pump in a 5 gal bucket full of antifreeze into the muffs. I'll do the fogging when it is getting low on the antifreeze.<br /><br />7. It says to clean the flame arrestor with solvent. What does that mean?<br /><br />Anything I missed? Thanks
