Marine Oil Filters

Gasoline and diesel engines rely on extremely tight tolerances between tight fitting and moving components. To prevent the moving components from making direct contact the use of clean oil of the recommended viscosity is essential to maintain predictable operating results. Therefore, maintaining the oil in its original condition would be advantages if it were practical. The second-best option is keeping the oil clean by means of filtering out particulates that accumulate during its use.

Why To Keep Your Boat's Marine Oil Clean

Motor oil endures a tremendous amount of temperature fluctuations and pressures during operation and that is why it is imperative to circulate the oil into and out of the hard-working cavities the engine relies on to operate smoothly. Reducing or restricting this flow usually leads to unwanted results. Uncirculated oil sitting inside an engine for some time will absorb moisture allowing bacteria to grow. Motor oil being used frequently oxidizes due to heat, accumulates carbon from combustion and transports fine metal particles from surface wear. 

All this is held in suspension in the oil to be filtered out by the oil filter. Thus, no matter what, we need to filter the oil and change the filters religiously. Filtering the oil removes some of the particles from solution and prolong the effectiveness of the lubricant but this will eventually reduce the permeability of the filter thereby restricting the flow of oil. This is a known condition and engineers have designed ways to bypass a restricted filter should this occur. This bypassing the marine oil filter allows large particulates to circulate and can often be overlooked or go unnoticed altogether. Therefore, the maintainer of a diesel or gasoline engine does not have clear guidance as to when to change the oil filter other that how many hours the engine has operated or how old the oil is since last the oil was changed.

How Often Should You Change Your Boat's Motor Oil

There are many factors that can determine when to change the oil and oil filter, but the safest and most reliable is always the original manufacturers recommendation or once every season. Replacing the oil filter is the least challenging and is inexpensive considering the alternative. What becomes the challenge is the multitude of different oil filter styles and oil filter manufacturers. There are many aftermarket manufactures such as ‘Racor®’ or ‘Baldwin®’ that produce top quality diesel oil filter products. Additionally, look for Oil Change Pumps and other helpful tools to make the job of changing your boat's oil and oil filter more effective.

For someone requiring an aftermarket Yamaha oil filter or a Mercury oil filter manufacturers such as ‘Sierra®’ or ‘Mercury Quicksilver®’ manufacture quality oil filters for gasoline engines.