Getting engine oil out.

[Seastoke]

What’s the best kit to extract the oil .

 

[Freebee]

pela pump

 

[Just_sayin']

Have you considered going on a diesel maintenance course??

 

[DavidJ]

£200 but if you want to make oil changes far more pleasant and you’re just starting doing your own maintenance and have many years of this task ahead, I can recommend this.
Also works well even without warming up the engine (although I’m in Spain so not UK temperatures)
I draw up from the dip stick tube which gets 90% of the oil out.
Pela pumps are £70
Marco UP3/OIL 12V/24V Gear Pump for Lubricating Oil

 

[Mr Googler]

 

[Seastoke]

It looks like you have done a lot of that, well it looks like your pasport photo.

 

[Momac]

This works for me

However I dare say an electric oil pump is potentially quicker and easier .

 

[Hurricane]

£200 but if you want to make oil changes far more pleasant and you’re just starting doing your own maintenance and have many years of this task ahead, I can recommend this.
Also works well even without warming up the engine (although I’m in Spain so not UK temperatures)
I draw up from the dip stick tube which gets 90% of the oil out.
Pela pumps are £70
Marco UP3/OIL 12V/24V Gear Pump for Lubricating Oil

Our Princess is factory fitted with something similar.
Permanently installed - one for each engine - with a valve arrangement that can switch from extracting engine oil to extracting gearbox oil.
An oil change for me (and I do it myself) is about 70 litres per engine.
Removing the old oil is really easy - operate the appropriate valves and push a button.
It takes about a couple of hours for each engine including refilling and changing the filters/breathers.

I've used Pela pumps before (in fact I have one in my shed in Spain) but they are useless for moving large quantities of oil.
We had Volvo D12s on our old boat and took all day to suck it out through the dipstick.
In the end, I rigged up a 12v pump and some microbore copper tube.

 

[Seastoke]

Mart I ca

This works for me
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However I dare say an electric oil pump is potentially quicker and easier .

open that.

 

[DavidJ]

Our Princess is factory fitted with something similar.
Permanently installed - one for each engine - with a valve arrangement that can switch from extracting engine oil to extracting gearbox oil.
An oil change for me (and I do it myself) is about 70 litres per engine.
Removing the old oil is really easy - operate the appropriate valves and push a button.
It takes about a couple of hours for each engine including refilling and changing the filters/breathers.

I've used Pela pumps before (in fact I have one in my shed in Spain) but they are useless for moving large quantities of oil.
We had Volvo D12s on our old boat and took all day to suck it out through the dipstick.
In the end, I rigged up a 12v pump and some microbore copper tube.

Yep! my Pela lives the shed as well now. I think it might have been your electric pumps that converted me.

 

[Hurricane]

Yep! my Pela lives the shed as well now. I think it might have been your electric pumps that converted me.

Here's a photo of the installation - arrows show the pump locations.
There is a little button beside each pump to operate them.





The brass loop in the above photo is the discharge pipe.
I hook it over am empty oil can to remove the old oil.
I keep some empty oil tubs for this purpose.
The whole process is clean and quick.

 

[DavidJ]

Here's a photo of the installation - arrows show the pump locations.
There is a little button beside each pump to operate them.

View attachment 137862

View attachment 137863

The brass loop in the above photo is the discharge pipe.
I hook it over am empty oil can to remove the old oil.
I keep some empty oil tubs for this purpose.
The whole process is clean and quick.

Thread drift
I notice your fire extinguisher is a Sea-Fire
I‘ve found a Sea-Fire agent in Barcelona who is going to service mine.
May be useful

Cristina Clemente Núñez
Executive Manager
POINTFIRE S, L
C/Santander, 71 nave 13
08020 Barcelona
España

c.clemente@pointfire.es

 

[Freebee]

Manual Fluid & oil Extractor Suction Pump Vacuum 7L

 

[Hurricane]

Thread drift
I notice your fire extinguisher is a Sea-Fire
I‘ve found a Sea-Fire agent in Barcelona who is going to service mine.
May be useful

Cristina Clemente Núñez
Executive Manager
POINTFIRE S, L
C/Santander, 71 nave 13
08020 Barcelona
España

c.clemente@pointfire.es

Thanks for that - I've stuck it in my list of useful contacts.
Still looking for a good Shell Rimula agent in Spain though.

 

[ChromeDome]

Agent?

A Google finds many on a for "Shell Rimula" site:.es

 

[DavidJ]

Agent?

A Google finds many on a for "Shell Rimula" site:.es

Thanks but what we are looking for is Shell Rimula at about the same price as UK.

 

[Hurricane]

Thanks but what we are looking for is Shell Rimula at about the same price as UK.

And in 20l drums

 

[DavidJ]

And in 20l drums

One for me and seven for you

 

[Hurricane]

One for me and seven for you

Yep - thats about right!!

 

[ChromeDome]

It would seem that € 4.50 / liter is the norm when in 20 liter drums + € 20 shipping each drum.

20 Liter Shell Rimula R4 X 15W-40 Deutz MAN Deutz Caterpillar IVECO VOLVO 15W40
20 Liter Shell RIMULA R4 L 15W-40 ACEA E9 E7 Cat Cummins MB Volvo Iveco Deutz