Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:01:31 -0700
Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
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From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject: Re: Strategy for low-mess oil drain.
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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]
|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]
|> > |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")
|> > |'74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano,
|> > |Calif.) Bend, OR KG6RCR
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