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Subject:Re: Oil-sucking devices...
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:53:45 -0700

Sure,
first I bought a cheap one in the marine section ( it's common on boats with
inboard engines  to such the oil out of the dipstick tube since the bottom
of the engine is way down there in the bilge, hard to get to etc ) ...
Think it was 25 bucks...
didn't last long.

So I made my own.
Rigged a medium small car battery and an old Vanagon fuel pump on a small
two wheel dolly.
Make the pick up tube small so it can fit down dipstick holes of course.
I have a 'catch jug' right there on the dolly with the pump and battery.
I just roll it up to any car or van ...
power up the fuel pump by connecting the battery to it ..
and it sucks.
It Sucks pretty well.
I use it to suck oil out of an auto trans via the dipstick tube ( just
swapping out 2 qts of old ATF and putting in two new qts of Royal Purple
synthetic ATF makes the trans feel and shift better )

I use it on power steering fluid, pumping old gas out of vanagon fuel tanks
sometimes ...
and engine oil changing if I want.

you'll have get some remote mounted  type oil filter.
though.................so you don't have to get under the van to mess with
that too .

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Perdue" <mcperdue@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:01 AM
Subject: Oil-sucking devices...

> Hi all,
>
> Have any of you tried one of those devices for changing your oil that
> goes into the dipstick and lets you pump the oil out into a closed
> container?  Call me slack if you will, but I get kind of tired having
> a bunch of warm oil dump on me and the drain plug falling into the
> used oil when I change the oil.
>
> Thanks,
> Marc