how often do you change the s/c oil? What kind dose it take.? I have about 5,000 miles on the L now.

 

relax

You don't have to change it for a long time

I am not sure what the recomended miles are, but at least 30,000 miles.

 

You should have gotten a service chart with your truck, or atleast I did. It tells me the recommended times to do certain things. Then again, you have the **** guys who do stuff 4 times in the period that Ford recommends it to be done once...

-Mike

 

My service guide thingee says nothing about S/C Oil though.............

 

I too had looked in the service manual and nothing about s/c oil or how much and oil weight.

 

Fordsrus,

Don't quote me but I believe the nose bearings are pretty much set for the life of the supercharger ~100,000 Miles if you don't change the pulleys. I owned a GM Supercharged 3800 and I only checked the level of the supercharger oil and never changed it. It lasted 110,000 before the nose bearings started to make some noise and the bower was replaced. I have also found that GM has the specially formulated supercharger oil a lot cheaper than Ford and both are from Eaton. As I understand it the oil is specially formulated to form a vapor at low temperatures for lubrication. Since the nose gear has no oil pump and the clearances are so tight only a oil vapor can do the lubrication. Caution, do not breathe in the supercharger oil, it's toxic.

 

SVT states:

"Top off every 15,000 miles."

No changes necessary.