First Oil change Miramar V10

Question...do the newer Fords need the motorcraft oil filter with the built in silicon valve like older Fords?

stvdman wrote:
Only issue was the oil wants to drain onto the front I-beam/Suspension...just be ready for that.

This just drives me nuts.... so many vehicles I've worked on over the years have this exact problem. Is it too much to ask for the guy designing the oil pan to walk down the hall to the suspension department and figure out where his drain hole is going to land????

The hardest part is actually getting the oil back into the engine....at least for me anyway. The fill port is very inconvenient to get to with a container of oil. So, I made up a funnel with a tube that I can put into the fill port and put the oil back in after dumping it. It also requires me to stand on a ladder to pour the oil and get it to run in. When going under to drain the oil, make sure you have some way to divert the oil to a drain pan. As said earlier, the plug is directly over the solid front axle and will make a mess if you don't have some way to get it to run into the pan. I find that fully extending the stabilizers gives the extra room to get a drain pan directly under the plug, resting on top of the axle. It also gives much more room to work on your back on a creeper. Removing the filter is no big deal. You can get the wrench as recommended, or you can use a pair of channel locks. It doesn't matter if you bend the filter housing...you're just going to throw the old one away after you drain the oil out, right? And the new filter should only be about a half turn beyond hand tight to avoid blowing out the gasket.

You can do it!!!

For the oil filter, do all Ford V10s take the same filter? I know there is different V10s in different trucks/RVs.

My husband does all of our oil changes on our V-10.

Easy job, lots of room under there. Read your manual for the proper oil and quantity. Some incorrect info in previous post I believe.

I changed mine (2017 Miramar) with 1500 miles on it. In my driveway, it was pretty easy. Filter came off w/o much of a problem. Only issue was the oil wants to drain onto the front I-beam/Suspension...just be ready for that. I used a large drain pan to collect it all.

Went with a high quality synthetic and oil filter. should be good till next year with normal oil level checks along the way.

Changing the oil in a V-10 is like changing oil in anything else. On my Winnebago Vista right under the oil pan drain plug is the front end I-beam, so I use a small funnel to devert the oil into the drain pan. Go to any auto parts store and buy you the oil filter socket wrench that'll fit a Motorcraft 810-S filter. And you'll need the filter and 5 quarts of 5W/10 oil of your chose.