Oscar LaVista
Go Kart Newbie
- Location
- Mt Kisco, NY & Weeki Wachee FL
- Car(s)
- 2018 GTI SE 6MT
I got a ~$45 oil extractor on Amazon and used it for the first time yesterday. My plan was to change the oil and do some work on my VFR at the same time. I had driven the car for 30 minutes a while before, so I figured that was good enough.
I hooked up the extractor, pumped it about 30 times, and went to do something else for 20 minutes. I returned to find an imperceptible amount of oil removed. Pumped it 30 times and went back to the motorcycle. A while later, it had again not filled the tank high enough to see. And so on...
It took all day to change the oil. Maybe if I'd stood there and pumped every minute or two I'd have better results, but I have a well-equipped garage and putting a car up to change the oil is no hardship. I'm not interested in further experiments with the extractor.
It's a WTMoto, highly rated on Amazon, and the same one the guy on Jalopnik wrote about, so probably you can make it work for you.
Pick up in Stamford CT, Elmsford NY or at the next Irvington meetup.
I hooked up the extractor, pumped it about 30 times, and went to do something else for 20 minutes. I returned to find an imperceptible amount of oil removed. Pumped it 30 times and went back to the motorcycle. A while later, it had again not filled the tank high enough to see. And so on...
It took all day to change the oil. Maybe if I'd stood there and pumped every minute or two I'd have better results, but I have a well-equipped garage and putting a car up to change the oil is no hardship. I'm not interested in further experiments with the extractor.
It's a WTMoto, highly rated on Amazon, and the same one the guy on Jalopnik wrote about, so probably you can make it work for you.
Pick up in Stamford CT, Elmsford NY or at the next Irvington meetup.
