'Need to be careful that, as bucket gets nearly full, you don't vacuum a lot
of air into bottom of bucket which may cause turbulence in the bucket
causing oil to be picked up by vac hose. That's why I have plenty of
gap/space between oil discharge and vac hose inlet both in top of bucket.
Gap/space allows the air flow, if any, to slow down enough to drop the oil;
'never had a problem of oil into vac hose. YMMV ;<)
Wilt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Topsider Oil removal
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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