I have tried a 5 gal plastic gas jug also - collapsed like a cheap suit...
LarryT
On 4/26/2013 10:11 AM, Rich Thomas wrote:
I have a plastic gas "can I put a barb fitting in the vent hole for
the extraction hose and the fill/pour hole is just right to jam the
vac hose into. Turn on the vac and it sorta collapses (the "Visual
Vacuum Indicator") while sucking out the oil.
The barb cost a buck, the hose was a buck, I had the old gas can, so
the "$2 oil sucker"
You might want to find an old metal tank like propane or refrigerant
or helium but then you would not have the VVI feature.
--R
On 4/26/13 10:01 AM, Dan Penoff wrote:
I have been thinking of putting a five gallon paint bucket to use as
an extraction unit - here's what I was thinking - please offer any
critiques:
Five gallon paint bucket.
Drill a hole and thread a hose barb fitting into the lid opposite the
collapsible "spigot". Put a bushing on the inside of the lid on the
threads that project from the hose barb fitting, and thread on a
piece of 1/2" PVC or something similar that would extend to near the
bottom of the bucket. This would be the dip tube where the oil would
come out into the bucket.
Use an adapter for my shop vac to fit on to the spigot to provide the
vacuum.
Attach the appropriate sized tubing to the hose barb fitting to
insert into the dipstick tube on the car.
Seems like this would work just fine, and the dip tube would minimize
the amount of oil that might possibly get drawn into the shop vac.
Thoughts?
Grant - a question about your brake system fill/flush - can you "back
feed" ABS braking systems?
Dan
On Apr 26, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Larry T wrote:
That sure sounds painless! My fuel pump is a diaphragm type so
hopefully it will work fine. I am recovering from knee surgery so
getting down and getting back up are pretty difficult for me at this
point but your method is so simple I can probably supervise my wife
and son!
I mentioned using your method on my MGB's clutch system - I plan to
share your method with the MGB forum I'm on as there's huge
frustration when trying to bleed the clutch because the bleeder is
on the bottom of the slave cylinder and pointed downward making
bleeding extremely difficult. I suspect there are clutch systems
that never get bled completely.
Take care --
Larry
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