Ford Sabre Oil Change help please.

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Well, may be a daft question but here goes.

The oil filter is a very large spin on mounted upside down so it can't be filled with oil!

I'm wondering if the engine needs "priming" as it must take a fair while to fill the filter and also the turbo?

Ian
 
Have done loads of these and not had a problem with priming, just dont put any revs on untill alarm goes off, most of the oil drains out when left anyway, thats why theres always a few seconds delay with the alarm going off when starting
 
I have a couple of Ford Sabres and changed from the original cannister type oil filters to a spin on oil filter, a much cleaner change over than the messy cannisters. I got these from Steve at Seahorse power. You can also prefill the filter with this setup, or at least you can on mine.
 
Mine are the same on the 6.354, I did them this weekend, I tend to pull out the stop lever and crank them for a bit. Either way, you'll be fine.

I bash a small hole in the top of the old filter with a screw driver to let the filter drain down before unscrewing it, reduces the mess.

If you are pumping the oil out with those daft brass pumps get the engines good and hot first, makes it much easier.
 
burgundyben said:
Mine are the same on the 6.354, I did them this weekend, I tend to pull out the stop lever and crank them for a bit. Either way, you'll be fine.

I bash a small hole in the top of the old filter with a screw driver to let the filter drain down before unscrewing it, reduces the mess.

If you are pumping the oil out with those daft brass pumps get the engines good and hot first, makes it much easier.
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Nice one on the small hole but why don't you like the brass pumps? I find the P/H one a doddle. Some eejit ran the S/H zorst an inch above the pump handle that side so its only useable if I remove 10' of 4" exhaust pipe. Pela pump time!
 
Andrew_Fanner said:
Nice one on the small hole but why don't you like the brass pumps? I find the P/H one a doddle. Some eejit ran the S/H zorst an inch above the pump handle that side so its only useable if I remove 10' of 4" exhaust pipe. Pela pump time!
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Its just a blimmin pain sat there for 20 mins wanking it up and down!
 
All went well, pics too

It worked: My fear subsided thanks to the advice posted, thanks.

Did the first engine sort of warmed up to move the cr*p around in the oil then pumped it out with the snozzer pump on the engine, about 100+ pumps and the oil was out, fair bit left in though I think as she took 13 and a half litres once the new filter was on. Cranked her over with the stop pulled and then bit the bullet and started her up, couple of seconds and the banshee's stopped, phew.

Then the fuel system, all went great with the first two on top of the engine, even got the O rings in the right places, then decided to remove the spinny roundy water seperators disaster struck at this point and OK I'll confess, I thought the three levers were the off valves for the fuel supply (two side tanks) sadly not, I took the first filter off then the fuel just kept coming, ah, wrong valves the real ones were behind the genset so with about two litres in the bilge I let go the filter and turned them off. Pumpede the diesel out of the bilge with a plastic oil suction pump.

Washed it all around with bilge cleaner then did it all again with the pump thing.

Fitted the new see through filters turned on the fuel taps and bled through up to and on the fuel pump. Fired her up and all smooth, the sh*t that was in those filters was awful suprised the engines ran at all!

Changed the impellor, easy on the port engine, contortion time being a ferret on the starboard one!

Anyway pulled muscles, stink of diesel, *******3d by SWMBO for jeans and t shirt making the washing machine stink!!

The red box in the pic is full of MONSTER fuses, Hydrolic top up on steering tomorrow and anothe wash out of the bilge, thighten up stern glands a quarter turn, replace a bulb in the engine room. fit the new pressure relief valve to the calorifier (spits when I turn off the new pump, replaced the old rotary belt drive cause it went all bonkers)

Knack3red with all this motor boat stuff,

Ian
 
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