Verado oil change/L/U change and Petit Vivid White update

[thundra]

Here it is, 79 hours on the motor and I had to change my oil to make it through the end of the season when I will change again before putting it all away before this winter.

The oil change was easy. Even easier than an oil change in my truck or on my motorcycle as I don't have to contort under any hood or crawl under the truck or even get on my knees almost. Here I am watching the oil come out, both the engine oil and the lower unit oil. I used an old refrigerator drawer for my oil catch pan, nice.



I thought that taking the oil filter off as it is mounted upside down would make a total mess but thankfully GlenE mentioned putting two holes in the top of the filter to let all the oil drain out so when I unscrewed the filter, I spilled not a drop because the filter was empty. The strap wrench worked quite well as well.



Out with the old and on with the new black filter.



Here I'm ready to pump the new lower unit fluid in. The old fluid looked really good but neither of the L/U plugs had the magnetic thing on it to check for any metallic particles.



I cleaned and lubed up the propshaft and even the hub kit for the prop, makes getting it out easier should I ever need to swap it out in an emergency. This engine and oil change and L/U change took under an hour and I was putzing around for the most part. So for about $60-70 total for the fluids, gaskets and filter, I think it was not that bad at all and a wash for 2 stroke oil as well if I had to be adding it all along.

Next up as I had the boat on the trailer for the first time since the middle of June, I got to see my scumline and the bottom paint up close and personal. The pond where I keep the boat is pretty nasty. I scrubbed my scumline at least twice but it just comes back in a week. Here is a before shot of my starboard side;



Here is an after picture. All I did was lightly scrub the waterline and I scrubbed the paint even more lightly as I am afraid to take any of that good, expensive, stuff off. It came off so easily and came out as white as I put it on.



Here is a mystery I'm trying to figure out. I had sanded, and primed, then painted my trim tabs with the Vivid Red. They had the factory black paint on them at first and now the paint is gone, the primer is gone, even the factory black paint is gone, what happened??? All I can think of is that when I have the tabs down and underway, the flex of the tab caused the paint to peel off somehow. The only thing is that the paint on the top is just fine.



Here is 1/2 of my port tab scrubbed and the other unscrubbed, same with the next pic. Are you sick of this yet?





Well, that was my Saturday. Nice to get the first oil change out of the way and to give the bottom a little scrub scrub. I love the Vivid White and once I get the boat back on the trailer and pulling it from place to place, the thing will still look great with the white paint and it is nice that I really won't have to repaint next season as I won't have to paint until I see the coat of red that I put down as the tracer coat. Enjoy folks!

[Drifter]

Nice report and pics.

[dmeswi]

The dealer where I bought my Whaler wanted $550.00 to do the 100 hour maintenance on my 225 hp Verado. I bought all the fluids and filters for $80.00 and did the whole thing in about two hours. When 200 hours rolled around I did the 200 hour maintenance in about 1.5 hours. I would let the dealer do the work if it was reasonable but for $300.00/hr. I can do it myself.

Thank you very much,
Dennis

[Fletch]

Strip all the paint off those tabs, apply 2 coats of Petitt 6627 tie coat primer and re-paint with 2-3 coats of the vivid red. You'll be good to go.

[thundra]

Thanks Fletch, I think that because I didn't take the original paint off, the flex of the tab while underway and with the tabs down made ALL the paint come off. Now that it is down to bare metal, I'll put the primer on then repaint and I think it will stick this time. Thankfully, even though the tabs have nothing at all on them, there has been no growth, then I do use the boat every weekend so I'm sure that helps.

[Fletch]

I painted mine about 4-5 months ago with the exact recipe above except I used Pettit CP-60 (a lower cost pettit paint) instead of Vivid. I've put about 400 hours on the boat since then and they still look great with no peeling whatsoever. The 6627 is a rubbery like primer that sticks like glue but will still give a little. It's perfect for trim tabs. I also put it on my bracket (over the existing powder coat finish) at Pettit's recommendation. I used a little under a quart which is a good thing since a quart will cost you about $60-$70 or so.

[Gmack]

thanks for the report and pics!

Gary

[ScarabChris]

Your report is identical to what I have to do when I haul my boat. I clean the scum line once a week while the boat is in the water. But I pull the boat a few times a year clean and do other stuff. I lightly brush and rinse the Vivid and its back to new. I can't keep paint on my tabs either. it strips right off, the bright side is that because I use the boat so much nothing grows on the tabs, maybe a couple of barnicles but thats it.

Here is a tip.......Go to Home Depot or whatever big home improvement store you have there and buy a gallon of Rust Aid and a spray bottle. Spray the entire boat just above bottom paint line to get rid of that orange tinge. It will come right off, rinse it down and put some wax on the boat. Don't worry about the Rust Aid getting on the Vivid, it will do nothing but make it whiter.