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Thought the same thing. Never heard of this before. And also wonder how it works with manual trans since need clutch to start.Good video. First I've heard of the "Flat Foot Crank" feature, pretty cool.
For manual transmission you hold down the clutch and the gas pedal at the same time. For the automatic transmission it is the gas and the brake (as they showed in the video). If you have an automatic transmission without the push button start, you can skip the brake pedal, just have the hold down the gas pedal while turning the key.Thought the same thing. Never heard of this before. And also wonder how it works with manual trans since need clutch to start.
So this is safe to do each oil change? As far as no strain on any parts by doing this?For manual transmission you hold down the clutch and the gas pedal at the same time. For the automatic transmission it is the gas and the brake (as they showed in the video). If you have an automatic transmission without the push button start, you can skip the brake pedal, just have the hold down the gas pedal while turning the key.
It's called "flood mode" because you are flooding the engine with oil. One of the many handy tricks I picked up from my father who is a (now retired) Ford engineer.
(Don't tell him that I learned from him though, I was a punk teenager who was convinced there would never be a situation when I needed to know what flood mode was and how to use it. Can't ruin my reputation. )
Funny how parents were sometimes right about stuff.For manual transmission you hold down the clutch and the gas pedal at the same time. For the automatic transmission it is the gas and the brake (as they showed in the video). If you have an automatic transmission without the push button start, you can skip the brake pedal, just have the hold down the gas pedal while turning the key.
It's called "flood mode" because you are flooding the engine with oil. One of the many handy tricks I picked up from my father who is a (now retired) Ford engineer.
(Don't tell him that I learned from him though, I was a punk teenager who was convinced there would never be a situation when I needed to know what flood mode was and how to use it. Can't ruin my reputation. )
As you might imagine it does put some extra strain on the battery and starter. But realistically you can do this whenever. That said, there are really only three situations where it makes sense to do it:So this is safe to do each oil change? As far as no strain on any parts by doing this?
Yeah... I'll fully admit I didn't really appreciate my father until after I had left the house and had children. It's just the little things that you don't think matters when you are a stupid teenager.Funny how parents were sometimes right about stuff.
Tell him he will appreciate it.
Filling a horizontally mounted filter just makes a mess when installing it.Cranking the engine after an oil change to build pressure is great, but not filling the filter with oil first seems like a terrible idea. Unless I'm missing something here, you're pumping air through the oil galleys until the filter media is saturated and the canister fills up. It seems like he's "saving" time at the expense of unnecessary potential engine wear. Why not fill the filter and flat foot crank?