Since downsizing to a rental after changing careers at 30 I found myself without the room and tools (some are in storage) to do oil changes with a jack. Being the winter I did this in my place of work (aircraft hangar) but normally the oil will be changed in my driveway. Hence, I decided to purchase an EWK vacuum extractor on Amazon along with MOTUL 8100 X-cess 5w-40 and a Mann oil filter. I will probably just use site sponsors from now on but I had some other things I needed on Amazon.
Having never changed oil in this fashion, I thought it went well. I didn’t even have to get on scrubby clothes because I always spill SOMETHING on me when changing with a jack.
A trick I learned are to keep the tube moving up up and down until you find the sweet spot. You’ll know because the tube will fill completely with oil and the extractor will fill quickly. I was wondering why I couldn’t get more than 2 liters out. I knew the oil was within recommended anoount because I check often. It happened quickly and would’ve cut down a large amount of time had I realized sooner.
One more pretty obvious trick is to keep pumping periodically. I’ve used siphons before and once those get going you don’t have to do anything else but with the vacuum pump it won’t keep going even if the extractor is below the oil pan.
I feel like I got most of the oil out. I actually overfilled and came back and extracted a little bit out. It was still new oil coming out. One way to check next time is to justborroe a jack and get underneath to be sure, I just needed to get this done as I was last 5,000 miles and I would like to keep the changes right at 5k.
If you are thinking about this, I highly recommend. If you don’t have access to a lift or something to easily get underneath, or just want to keep clean, this is a good route. I took the oil straight to Autozone and dumped it out. No mess.
Here’s a time lapse of the process, under 40 seconds long.
https://youtu.be/UeHOY3IJAd8
Having never changed oil in this fashion, I thought it went well. I didn’t even have to get on scrubby clothes because I always spill SOMETHING on me when changing with a jack.
A trick I learned are to keep the tube moving up up and down until you find the sweet spot. You’ll know because the tube will fill completely with oil and the extractor will fill quickly. I was wondering why I couldn’t get more than 2 liters out. I knew the oil was within recommended anoount because I check often. It happened quickly and would’ve cut down a large amount of time had I realized sooner.
One more pretty obvious trick is to keep pumping periodically. I’ve used siphons before and once those get going you don’t have to do anything else but with the vacuum pump it won’t keep going even if the extractor is below the oil pan.
I feel like I got most of the oil out. I actually overfilled and came back and extracted a little bit out. It was still new oil coming out. One way to check next time is to justborroe a jack and get underneath to be sure, I just needed to get this done as I was last 5,000 miles and I would like to keep the changes right at 5k.
If you are thinking about this, I highly recommend. If you don’t have access to a lift or something to easily get underneath, or just want to keep clean, this is a good route. I took the oil straight to Autozone and dumped it out. No mess.
Here’s a time lapse of the process, under 40 seconds long.
https://youtu.be/UeHOY3IJAd8