Ranger Oil Change Time

[Randel]

Just reading a Repco catalogue, they mention about the need to do an oil change on the Ranger/BT-50 within 10 minutes or risk the oil pump draining and not priming upon start up with fresh oil.



Has anyone heard of this - and are there any other Fords that have this requirement?

[4Vman]

Interesting... You'd want to observe that advice!!

[Road_Warrior]

I'm fairly certain I've read service advice like that somewhere else too, I'll see if I can locate it.

[Road_Warrior]

Field service bulletin:

http://www.aaen.com.au/wp-content/up...DATAtiqbiz.pdf

[Randel]

I wonder how many other cars have this type of pump?

I tend to not rush when draining oil and feel like I want to get as much of the old stuff out as possible. Could be a trap for home mechanics in the future.

[Road_Warrior]

I wonder how many other cars have this type of pump?

I tend to not rush when draining oil and feel like I want to get as much of the old stuff out as possible. Could be a trap for home mechanics in the future.

I reckon a few have been caught out, there seems to be a bit of venom on various grey nomad forums about it

[andrewforbes]

Ouch, certainly advice worth listening to. I assume the filter screws on vertically and it would seem to do oil changes regularly would be a good idea. Should be fair easy to accomplish in 10mins though, just follow directions.

On the topic of oil, I did an oil change in my efxr8 prior to Ford fanatics day in Vic, I bought liqui moly fully synthetic which i find is not a bad oil, however not cheap either. So my question is this, now I have full synthetic oil in the engine, is this the only oil type I can use from now on? I've heard that once U use 100% synthetic oil U can't go back to the 1/2 N 1/2 or non synthetic oil.

[dash gt]

Yes, my BT50 had the oil drained for an extended period of time, after that had an engine TICK which could not be fixed.

[b2tf]

It's not a new thing and has been around since the PX first came out.

I do hope Repco are a bit better with their advice than their graphics though, bottom left is a VW TSI engine and top right is an XR6T engine. Neither found in a Ranger!