Life made simple.

For those of you who change your own oil out the hose through the drain plug. What do you think about this. It takes forever to drain so while I was waiting today I thought why not get another oil cap. Put a valve stem in it. Take a hand bicycle pump and add about 5 pounds of air to the motor. This would help push the oil out the hose quicker. Give me your thought's on this.

Travis Farber
Wake Me Products
www.Wake-me.com

mine does not really take all that long to drain. so no problems here.

I just use my tube (errr, I mean emergency raft) pump, pull the breather hose off the air cleaner and pressurize the oil thru the valve cover. But I agree Pheaton....MUCH faster, I'm just not quite as creative as you.

My buddy uses the drill powered pump down the dipstick method. I use the hose through the drain plug. It takes about 30 - 45 minutes for it to all drain out. I just still wonder if you get all the oil out with the pump method? He also spilled oil in the boat because he was handling a drain pan up in the boat rather than down under the trailer. I guess the pump method is good when you keep the boat at the marina all summer cause you can change the oil on the hoist in about an hour without having to pull the boat out of the water.

It might work. As long as you're using very low pressure, the only potential problem I see is the PCV valve. But if it works Steve's way, it should work for you.

I think I'd still prefer to suck it out through the E-Z change hose instead of pressurizing things. It might not be quite as fast, but there's less chance of things going wrong or getting messy.

I drained mine today and it was so slooww. I tried blowing air into oil filler to and the air just comes out breather into air intake, forget that. on a cool day as today was, 65 degrees it takes about 2 hrs. +

I use the suction method. It takes me about 15 mins max to drain the oil when the engine is hot. Spin on a new filter, fill up, and all done in under an hour.

Alan - I fire it up with the fake-a-lake to get the temp up & then drain the oil - makes a big difference.

For the record, the way I spoke of is with a cheap tube pump, very little pressure and the rubber hose from the breather provided the perfect seal with the tube fitting.

Steve

I don't know about adding pressure sounds like it would work. I just let it drain over night.

I bought one of the ez change pumps from Overtons. It was intended to stick down the dipstick tube to suck out the oil. I added a swivel head npt adapter that allows me to attach it to the drain tube out the transom. It works geat! However, it was much more expensive than a bicyle pump

I agree with above, if you get the oil warm first, not just engine but oil, the process goes much faster.

I agree with S Dub and BobD, run the motor, let the oil warm up, pull the oil cap, it'll take 15-20 Max.

I did mine last week, took about 3 hours. I found that if I just took the dip stick out, and let some back pressure there, it helped, but still real slow. Im just gonna plan on pulling the hose through, putting the pan under it, and doing other chores. It will eventually be done

definitely warm the engine first. the previous owner of my boat gave me one of these when i bought it: http://www.overtons.com/graphics/products/medium/26696M.jpg
i made a simple NPT adapter to hook it to the drain line instead of sucking out dipstick tube. works great, takes 5 min. neatly pour old oil into jug when engine is drained. wish i had one a long time ago.

I bought an old surplus vacuum pump, a big plastic jug and some tubing and use it for all sorts of fluid changes on the boat and cars. Takes about 5 minutes to drain 5 qts of oil from the boat. Just flip a switch and wait, no pumping and no mess. Total cost was about $50