Sucking out cold oil?

[Sans Bateau]

But I would certainly want to run it for some time, even if it never came up to temperature it would stir up the sludge that you want to get rid of.

And put the sludge back into the oil galleries where it has just spent weeks draining down from?

 

[prv]

I got mine out of a cold engine in late Nov this year. It did take about 45mins - hour and was hard work. I was using one of those standard brass oil pumps.

Well, here's the advantage of a Pela for such work. You pump it up once and then leave it for the vacuum to do its thing.

Pete

 

[the_branflake]

Well, here's the advantage of a Pela for such work. You pump it up once and then leave it for the vacuum to do its thing.

Pete

Yeah, one is on my list - also from a mess point of view too.

 

[Viking]

Why not leave it?

Why not just leave it in for one winter and change it when it goes back in (what 3 months)? One winter will not effect the engine that much, if at all!

 

[charles_reed]

I have a 2GM20, whose oil can only be extracted via the dipstick hole, generally using my Pela sucker-outer. In the past I've always arranged to do this while the engine was hot, but on lift-out last week I couldn't because the valve had disappeared from the Pela (later found in the car, annoyingly; I assumed it was back home in the shed).

Now the boat's in the yard I can't easily run up the engine, because there's no hose nearby and it will probably go through even my 6-gallon running-up bucket before getting properly warm.

Will a Pela eventually manage to empty a sump of cold oil?

Pete

My experience - no!

One needs to run the engine on freshwater for about 20' before oil is hot enough to flow - I use a bucket with an hose feed into it and the raw-water intake from the pump out of it.
The longest hose I've had to use was 244m (I did borrow several others)

 

[aquaplane]

I filled my Discovery gear box with my manual brass pump using cold oil and it went. It wasn't quick and did involve quite a bit of hard work pumping, mainly on the suction side, but it did pump it.

It is better to pump hot oil but it's not impossible to do it cold.

Cold oil does flow, every time you start your engine until it warms up.

 

[Talbot]

Depends which Pela you have. If it is the round globe one, forget it. If it is the more expensive cylnder version, then it should not be a problem - pumped out both my engines cold.

 

[Sans Bateau]

Depends which Pela you have. If it is the round globe one, forget it. If it is the more expensive cylnder version, then it should not be a problem - pumped out both my engines cold.

Sorry, your totally wrong, it was the round one I used on Saturday.

 

[rib]

belive this or not,but i had a girl friend now my partner pump out a kad 32 by hand useing a farmers syringe and pipe cold oil,only took her all week end.bless her

 

[Sans Bateau]

belive this or not,but i had a girl friend now my partner pump out a kad 32 by hand useing a farmers syringe and pipe cold oil,only took her all week end.bless her

Was that some sort of skill test or test of dedication before you popped the question!

 

[rib]

even funnier is she is an x gp.while she was doing it i was trying all sorts of automatic ways which never worked.never got round to popping the question once bitten twice shy and all that

 

[Bosun Higgs]

Will a Pela eventually manage to empty a sump of cold oil?

Pete

Yes. Just crank it up and leave it whilst you do something else. It will get there eventually.