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Can i change the oil the old owner use to run?

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1996samseadoo

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Is it okay to change oils? The owner doesn’t remember what oil she used and I was wondering if it would mess anything up if I changed the oil. It is an oil injection system. She hasn’t ran them in two years so the old oil is probably junk but I don’t know what to do. Thanks!
 
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Since it’s unknown what the oil is, I would go ahead and change it. Use an API-TC rated oil. In your case with the 717, there is no need to run synthetic. If you do a search on the forum you should see several run through on the process of changing the oil and bleeding the pump.
 
Since it’s unknown what the oil is, I would go ahead and change it. Use an API-TC rated oil. In your case with the 717, there is no need to run synthetic. If you do a search on the forum you should see several run through on the process of changing the oil and bleeding the pump.
okay thanks !
 
Since it’s unknown what the oil is, I would go ahead and change it. Use an API-TC rated oil. In your case with the 717, there is no need to run synthetic. If you do a search on the forum you should see several run through on the process of changing the oil and bleeding the pump.
Do you think you can direct me to that thread?
 
I can’t seem to find a good one either at the moment. It’s a pretty simple process though.

You need to get as much of the oil as you can out of the RV cavity, so you can either pull the bottom oil hose off and let it gravity feed out of the cavity, or pull the top hose and blow in it to push the oil back into the tank and then clamp the line off. You can then drain the tank of all the oil through that lower hose once it’s pulled off of the motor.

You’re then going to pull the tank and rinse it out with gasoline as best you can. Try to make sure you get all of the lines flushed too.

Once everything is cleaned and flushed, you can reinstall it and fill the tank back up with the new oil.

Then you are going to open the bleed screw on the oil pump and let it run until there are no air bubbles in the feed lines. Once you have a steady stream from the bleed screw, you can close it.

Start the engine and let it idle. With your hand, reach down to the oil pump and turn the arm all the way to the wide open position. You should see oil filling the small clear tygon lines. You can shut it off after it reaches the manifold.
 
If it had the incorrect oil in it before, incompatible oils mixed together will congeal into jello and clog the injection system. So it's important to clean out the lines and tank if unknown.

ie: mixing common TCW-3 outboard oil and API-TC rated oil together makes jello due to the additive packages are incompatible.
 
incompatible oils mixed together will congeal into jello and clog the injection system
I just ran into this "jello" in mine when I took the tank out looking for an oil leak. It's real gross looking. Must have formed last year when I pumped out all the TCW-3 oil from the previous owner and switched to the correct oil
 
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