Draining my oil

[krazykona]

Anyone have a trick to draining your oil or getting it to heat up without running the motor. I have a drain tube running from the pan out thru a drain hole in the transom. I just dont think I have got all the old oil out. Anyway to flush it. I have heard of people flushing their motor with diesel fuel or kerosene. Is this a good idea? Thanks for any input.

[rivercrazy]

I wouldn't put anything in your motor besides oil.
The best way I've found for removing oil from the drain tube off the pan is to use a drill pump. I connect mine to a cordless drill and it does a great job of pulling as much oil out of the pan as possible.
BTW, its almost impossible to get all the oil out of the pan no matter what method you use. Just change it often

[krazykona]

Thanks rivercrazy, Ill give the drillpump a shot. You ever try Shooting compressed air thru your dipstick tube?

[rivercrazy]

I haven't. The other method has served me pretty well.

[77charger]

krazykona:
Thanks rivercrazy, Ill give the drillpump a shot. You ever try Shooting compressed air thru your dipstick tube? if you build to much pressure with the air you might have another way for oil to exit your motor!I dont think you will get all the oil out anyhow but as long as the filter is changed whats a 1/4 qt of old oil to 7-10 qts of new.

[rivercrazy]

Air compressors usually have quite of bit of water in them from condensation and pressure/relief cycles. This would might also cause some rust in the compressor tank. I'd ditch the air compressor thingy and stick to a pump or gravity

[krazykona]

Thanks for the input guys, Ill get myself a drill pump, sound like the best idea.

[Itsahobby]

I got a tank that you pump up vacum in then stick
a small hose down the dip stick. Open the valve
and it sucks the oil out. Only bad thing is it
only holds 5 qts. I got it through West marine.
It's called topsider MVP. They have several other
types with electric motors.
Itsahobby

[shirkey4750]

I use an old shop vac, turn it on stick it to your drain and your done in just a few minutes and it gets the most oil out of every thing else that I have tried. I use the suction gun on the dipstick on my 26' Rinker because I can't get to drain plug very easy.

[TCHB]

You can buy a pretty neat little tool.
It comes with a three gallon plastic can with a small pump mounted to the top. The pump is powered by a small 12v electric motor that has long clips to connect to your battery. The suction tube can be put into the dip stick or the drain line. It took me about 5 minutes total time to suck out 7 quarts of oil through the dip stick. Overtons has a couple in the catalog.

[Marlin455]

KrazyKona- If you use the through the dipstick style oil drain system- Be careful when you pull the small diameter hose back out of the dipstick- I pulled my 455 Olds apart, only to find about 2 FEET eek! of pieces of that tubing broken off in 4-6" lengths sticking out of my oil pickup screen!!! Looked like a porcupine died and got sucked up the pickup tube!!LOL!! Also found the lower part(about 6"long)of a previous dipstick tube bouncing around in the pan! Thank god for windage trays. Anyone out there know where I can get a 90* oil pan plug? I want to run a permanent drain hose from the pan to the bilge area with a petcock on it, so I can just run the hose out the drain hole in the jet, open the petcock, and VOILA!instant oil change with no fuss, no muss! Any ideas?? Thanks, Stan

[ANGEL]

I like to use the SURE DRAIN from FRAM. thread size 1/2x20. just add a longer hose to it.and run it out the boat plug hole.

[THE BOSTON SIDEWINDER]

I ENDED UP GOING TO MY LOCAL AUTO PARTS STORE AND THEY HAD A 1/2 20 90 DEGREE OIL DRAIN FITTING ON THE SHELF...BILL.

[Liberator TJ1984]

I put a 90* 1/2" pipe x # 8 JIC Male fitting on my pan...drilled a 3/4" hole thru my transom adapter plate and installed a "Bulkhead fitting" #8 Double male JIC ends ...Ran a Braided SS line between transom and pan w/ #8 Female JIC ea.end ...installed # 8 cap on outside of transom plate...now when its time to drain oil just remove cap outside transom ...too easy

[Jordy]

TCHB:
You can buy a pretty neat little tool.
It comes with a three gallon plastic can with a small pump mounted to the top. The pump is powered by a small 12v electric motor that has long clips to connect to your battery. The suction tube can be put into the dip stick or the drain line. It took me about 5 minutes total time to suck out 7 quarts of oil through the dip stick. Overtons has a couple in the catalog. I got one of those at West Marine. It's slick, but doesn't like pulling cold 20W-50 out. Better have the motor nice and warm before you even attempt it, like after a day at the lake. :D

[LUVNLIFE]

If you are pretty good about changing your oil don't worry about the little bit that's left like a 1/4 quart. Remember some people never change their oil only add. eek!

[JetBoatRich]

Old fashion way, put the hose out the back of the boat and letg it drain over night.

[JetBoatRich]

LUVNLIFE:
If you are pretty good about changing your oil don't worry about the little bit that's left like a 1/4 quart. Remember some people never change their oil only add. eek! Hope I never buy one of those rides eek!

[bmff]

I replaced the dipstick tube with one that almost touched the bottom. Then I reverse plumbed an old compressor so it would suck. It pulls out 12 qts. in a few minutes and has a 10 gallon capacity. I feel that it gets more oil out than a normal drain would and the only thing in the boat is the hookup hose from the compressor\vacuum.

[BlownHowardCat]

Just curious............why dont you want to run the motor to warm the oil........warn oil makes changing it so much easier ?

[BlownHowardCat]

Woohoo.......half way to the triple digit club