Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:32:10 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Strategy for low-mess oil drain.
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It's too big to fit into any available access to the sump, but my
brother/listmember Alan gave me a siphon with a valve in the end that allow
you to jiggle the hose to pump liquid over the hump in the siphon. Works
like a charm.
Jim
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> I just use one of those crankhandle type syphon starter thingey's.
> works great.
> no mouth action needed.
> btdt.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Wolz" <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Strategy for low-mess oil drain.
>
>
> Get a piece of tubing about five feet long. Suck by mouth (slowly) till
>> the
>> oil well out of the engine, but not yet close to your mouth, crimp the
>> tubing ss it doesn't run back into the engine, lower the mouth end till
>> below the engine, and release the crimp so the oil will drain into a
>> convenient container.
>>
>> Velocity is not needed, but having the open end below the oil level will
>> start the siphon.
>>
>> Karl Wolz
>>
>>
>>
>> |-----Original Message-----
>> |From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.**com<vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
>> ]
>> |On Behalf Of Dave Mcneely
>> |Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:24 AM
>> |To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> |Subject: Re: Strategy for low-mess oil drain.
>> |
>> |---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> |> Siphons are one of my favorite ways to move fluids because I
>> |like any
>> |> method that requires no fancy gear and no power. Has anyone tried
>> |> siphoning engine oil outta that dipstick hole?
>> |
>> |"No fancy gear"? I'd definitely use some sort of pump,
>> |something like a pipette pump writ large, or one of those
>> |pumps aquarists use to clean fish tanks (can get rubber bulb
>> |versions). Ah, in the volumes we are talking about --- Tada!
>> |Turkey baster. The times I've tried to initiate a siphon by
>> |mouth, I've often ended up with a mouth full of whatever.
>> |Aquarium water, not so bad. Oil, that would be real bad.
>> |
>> |mcneely
>> |>
>> |> -- RJS
>> |>
>> |> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 21:09 -0700, Karl Wolz wrote:
>> |>
>> |> > Can you go to Home Depot and get a length of 1/8" (or
>> |whatever fits)
>> |> > tubing, shove it down the dipstick hole, and siphon out a
>> |pint or so?
>> |> >
>> |> > Karl Wolz
>> |> >
>> |> >
>> |> >
>> |> > |-----Original Message-----
>> |> > |From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.**com<vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
>> ]
>> |> > |On Behalf Of Rocket J Squirrel
>> |> > |Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 8:31 PM
>> |> > |To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> |> > |Subject: Strategy for low-mess oil drain.
>> |> > |
>> |> > |(Number 287 In A Continuing Series Of Knucklehead Questions)
>> |> > |
>> |> > |I used to change the oil in my aircooled every 1,500 miles. I got
>> |> > |so I didn't make much of a mess. Unscrewed the drain plug, let it
>> |> > |drop onto the screen on the used oil catcher, and sat back until
>> |> > |the drool of oil tapered off to drips.
>> |> > |
>> |> > |So after hearing that my oil is likely to run cooler if the oil
>> |> > |level is between the halfway mark and the "fill" mark on the
>> |> > |dipstick (mine's halfway between the halfway mark and the "full"
>> |> > |mark) I'd like to drain a bit of the oil.
>> |> > |
>> |> > |But my former strategy won't work here: I have to cram that plug
>> |> > |back in after dropping only a pint or so.
>> |> > |
>> |> > |Do I have to bite the bullet and just reach into the stream and
>> |> > |hope to get the plug started before too darn much oil has sluiced
>> |> > |down my sleeve, or is there a smarter way?
>> |> > |
>> |> > |Wait, wait -- I can just drain all the oil and then
>> |re-fill the thing.
>> |> > |Duh.
>> |> > |
>> |> > |
>> |> > |--
>> |> > |Rocky J Squirrel (Jack Elliott)
>> |> > |'84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
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>> |> > |Calif.) Bend, OR KG6RCR
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