[Shop-talk] Oil Extractors

[Benjamin Zwissler]

I bought a venturi vacuum brake bleeder (uses compressed air to create
vacuum) and it's so much easier than a mityvac.  I got mine from wish.com
for less than $15.  The only issue you might have is the reservoir only
holds about a pint.

Ben

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 9:45 PM Jimmie Mayfield via Shop-talk <
shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:

> My mower and pressure washer have drain plugs near the (vertical) shafts.
> It's kind of a pain in the ass to access on the pressure washer but it's
> still less messy than flipping the whole thing upside-down like the user
> manual recommends.
>
> J
>
> On 2020-01-17 21:08, Bob Spidell via Shop-talk wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> What do y'all use to suck oil out of small engines?  I've got one of
> these, but it never worked worth a damn and the tubing got brittle and
> cracked pretty quickly:
>
> *https://tinyurl.com/uh4p7l6 <https://tinyurl.com/uh4p7l6>*
>
> The problem with it is no matter how fast I pumped there would never be
> sufficient vacuum in the canister to move the oil up and out of a sump.
> I've got several small displacement engines that need their oil changed
> regularly--one is a gravel compactor that weighs over 200lbs--and trying to
> tip the engine enough to drain the oil is a real hassle (and messy).
> Anyone know of something that works (I see HF has something similar, but
> the reviews are mixed and it seems to have the same issues as the
> 'Topsider').
>
> TIA,
> Bob
>
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