How do you drain your oil?

[Lumpy]

Hey guys,
Just wondering how you drain your motor oil in your boats without making a mess? Thanks..........Lumpy

[wsuwrhr]

Engine hoist. It pays to own your own tools. haha
Brian

[infotraker]

I have uesed the little battery powered pump with hoese, quite a mess when a hose comes off ! I am going to buy one of the pump style ones from west marine.

[Costello]

I have the permanent drain fitting mounted at the bottom, on the side of the pan, which I have a hose connected to. At the hose end, I have a plug. When it is time to change oil, run the hose out of the bilge drain and into a catch pan. It is gravity fed and slow but most of the oil does come out. Changing trailer postion through the process helps. In the past I had one of the blue pump up cans, and it worked pretty well for me also, but it depends on what kind of hose access to your pan you have. With the siphon can, you need a big access port.

[PGF545]

On our race flatbottom, there was enough room to put one of those boxes the a case of cokes or beer used to come in, then we would put a plastic bag in there and drain the oil into the bag. Most of the time we didn't make to big of a mess...lol.

[63stevens]

I put a line with a bulkhead fitting on the pan and ran the line toa place higher up than the oil level. When it is time to change the oil I run a vaccuum in an old 30lb refrigerant bottle hooked to the bulkhead fitting and suck it out.

[picklefork1]

They make a kit you install with a hose long enough to drain the oil without pulling the motor or making to much of a mess. Pull the motor once, install the kit and "set it and forget it", sorry wrong forum!!
Good luck,

[Timer]

I do it the same as Costello and picklefork1, with the hose already installed at the oil pan. I still made a mess when I pulled the filter off. I've got a remote filter mount, but the filter is in a horizontal position. I put a plastic trash bag under it but it didn't catch all the oil in the filter, so big mess in the bilge.
Does anyone have a better way to catch the filter oil??

[pgf127rt]

545. on my boat we didn't have enough room for anything but the garbage bag, almost evertime I changed the oil I would carefully put the bag under, pull the drain plug, catch all 10 qts. in the bag then try and remove the bag and get it vertical befoe losing any oil,with this acomplished I would slowly remove the bag full of oil and everytime the damn thing would catch on a strut bolt and spill the frigging oil all over the bottom of my boat, never failed, so it may be just as easy to go ahead and tilt the trailer to let most of the oil out the drains and then just clean up what is left, other than pulling the engine or installing a quick drain hose, I guess you just have to make a mess and con your wife into cleaning it up, LOLuck

[Kindsvater Flat]

I have a valve on the pan that I hook a drill pump to. So far I haven't made a mess yet. Now that I said that it will probably happen with my luck.

[PGF545]

Joe Don, I fixed all the oil drain mess by installing a dry sump system. pull off the big hose, hook a drill up to the pump and drain in a 5 gallon bucket. For only about $2500.00 I can put one on you boat...no more oil drain mess...lol.

[rrrr]

Originally posted by PGF545:
Joe Don, I fixed all the oil drain mess by installing a dry sump system. pull off the big hose, hook a drill up to the pump and drain in a 5 gallon bucket. For only about $2500.00 I can put one on you boat...no more oil drain mess...lol.
Good one, 545. Once again, the solution to all problems is $$$$$. http://free.***boat.net/ubb/biggrin.gif http://free.***boat.net/ubb/biggrin.gif

[pgf127rt]

Originally posted by rrrr:
Good one, 545. Once again, the solution to all problems is $$$$$. http://free.***boat.net/ubb/biggrin.gif http://free.***boat.net/ubb/biggrin.gif
rrr,
That reminds me of a saying on the bathroom wall at the Petroleum Club in Ft. Worth;
"LIFE IS LIKE A SHIT SANDWICH, THE MORE BREAD YOU HAVE, THE LESS SHIT YOU HAVE TO EAT"
Sorta like the messy oil deal

[bbcdonzi]

About 55 dollars from west marine..the small oil suction kit..pulls from the oil stick tube..have used it on lots of inboards..works great no mess..

[Messy Drawls]

Just put the front of your boat up high as you can and drain the oil into the bottom of your engine bay. Pull the drain plug before the oil pan bolt. Then drain it into a bucket. After your Valdeez experience just take brake cleaner or lighter fluid and squirt the bottom down, while still draining into your bucket. Then its all nice shiny and clean and the mess is in a bucket you had outside the boat. Don't pour your used oil down the kitchen sink, the wife gets mad!
[This message has been edited by Messy Drawls (edited June 13, 2002).]

[old rigger]

My old boss used to drain his oil on the K boat 2 ways. None recomended by me.
The first he'd do in the pits, between rounds. He'd pull one of the oil galley plugs, down by the oil filter, hook a fitting with a tube on it,into the block with the tube running into a bucket. He'd light the motor off and run it till the tube sputtered oil, then shut it down.
The second was just as they were pulling out of the pits for the trip home, he'd pull the oil drain plug, jump in the truck and go home....with oil draining out of the drain hole in the hull. What a mess for the guy following him.
Any of you running a drain kit, you know the long hose that attachs in the drain plug hole, and has a cap on the end? We use to put them on all the jets and they worked great, if not the fastest way to do it. Usually best to let it drain over night. I was just thinking today about putting one on while I have the motor out of the dock beater. Any pros or cons from you guys?

[pgf127rt]

oldrigger, I had a drain hose on my comp flat and it worked great, mine was a number 12 braided line, I just enlarged the center drain and used a larger plug for it, worked great till I misplaced the plug at a race outside of Tulsa, and had to go thrashing the pits for something to stop the hole up, made my next pass and the plug showed up in the bottom of the boat, flats swallow stuff up and then give 'em back.

[shirkey4750]

I have an old shop-vac that I use. Have the vac running pull the plug and hold it over the opening. Takes about a minute to drain your oil. Just don't run the vac to long or overfill, or it will blow out the top. Have used this on several different boats, from hydros to cruisers.