Extracting oil with vacuum pump.

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05-28-2014, 09:18 AM

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raj99

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Originally Posted by roylok

Do you need to jack the car up to collect the oil Raj? What I like about the evacuator is that you can do it in a suit. No mess at all, when I put a pan under the car I always spill some. That valve would make me a bit paranoid though... driving over the potholes we have leftover from last winter is a little spring going to hold? You would loose all the oil before you knew what happened. I like your piano hinge idea but I don't think I would have the ***** to put a flusher valve like that lol

Since my car is lowered on coil overs, I actually drive my car onto a pair of 2x6s and have enough clearance to reach down an pull the flap back and simply push the qwik valve to release the oil. So far I've gotten my hands slightly oil once, but that's it.

As for the qwik valve accidentally releasing...I'd say it would be near impossible to happen. This thing is a extremely well engineered and I actually couldn't possibly imagine how a pothole or anything for that matter would release it. It requires a movement and lock of the lever which if you hit something that knocked the qwik valve with that much force, then I think you'd have bigger issues...perhaps the entire bottom of the engine being ripped up