First self oil change comments

[Madcowranch]

Changed my own oil for the first time this morning and have a couple observations.

The slide for the oil filter dribble is ingenious. Ford FTW!

Looking up capacity for my 6.2L (7 Qts), I noticed the capacity for the 5.0L engine is a whopping 7.7 Qts! Wow.

Lastly, this is one the easiest engines I've ever changed the oil on.

 

[Raptizzle]

Lastly, this is one the easiest engines I've ever changed the oil on.

That's good to hear!

 

[crashmc302]

I took a peek under there when I noticed the ingenious location of the oil filter. More and more pokin and prodding shows that Ford really did go into detail w this truck. The tow hitch is bolted and welded for cryin out loud!

 

[SOCOMech]

Oil changes are even easier when you have a front bumper like ADD's

 

[Vash]

I agree that the oil change was extremely easy. My only gripe is that the oil filter is almost horizontal. I typically like to prefill my new oil filters before putting them on.

Maybe the 6.2L primes the filter before starting? I dunno. Anyway, w/ the current orientation of the filter I can only prefill a little bit if at all. The drain ramp is definitely a cool little touch. My guess is the people complaining about getting oil all over the skidplate were just in too big of a hurry.

I switched my truck over to Amsoil 5w-20 full synthetic and am still using the standard Motorcraft filter.

BTW, upon resetting my average mpg while driving on the highway the other day. I got up to 16.6 mpg highway only at 70mph. Probably inflated numbers by the computer, but I'm still impressed. Also, not saying that the mpg is related to the oil since I didn't try this test with the Motorcraft 5w-20 blend. I just wanted to comment on my observation.

 

[LVdezertdawg]

Changed my own oil for the first time this morning and have a couple observations.

The slide for the oil filter dribble is ingenious. Ford FTW!

Looking up capacity for my 6.2L (7 Qts), I noticed the capacity for the 5.0L engine is a whopping 7.7 Qts! Wow.

Lastly, this is one the easiest engines I've ever changed the oil on.

I agree, piece of cake and the slide is a great engineering treat!!!!

 

[NevRaptor]

changing is easy its nice,but taking off the filter for the first time holy shit what did they do put it on with an impact gun it was tight has hell.

 

[WannaRaptor62]

stupid question....I haven't changed the oil myself yet, but is it possible to do without jacking up the truck at all?

 

[IoN6]

stupid question....I haven't changed the oil myself yet, but is it possible to do without jacking up the truck at all?

Completely. I hadn't moved to the middle perch when I did my first change yet so I drove the truck up onto some old rotors to give it a little more breathing room when rolling under it with the creeper... But not needed at all.

 

[IoN6]

I agree that the oil change was extremely easy. My only grip is that the oil filter is almost horizontal. I typically like to prefill my new oil filters before putting them on...

My main gripe as well. As ingenious as the drip/drain tray is, it would have been a lot more ingenious to put the filter in a horizontal orentation. Which would more than likely eleminated the need for said tray. IMO.