Yanmar 1GM10 Oil Change

[gjeffery]

I am about to buy an oil extractor, and I want to avoid buying one with a suction pipe that is too big to fit the dipstick hole of the 1GM10.

It would be very reassuring to know which Oil Extractors other 1GM10 owners find work well.

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[Capt_Scarlet]

I bought a drill-powered pump for about £10 from a car accessory shop, and fitted it with some plastic tubing and then some lengths of small diameter copper pipe in the ends - fits down the dipstick hole, no problem, and the copper pipe stays put in whatever you poke it in. Has worked very well as a diesel transfer pump, but I have not yet used it for its intended purpose, which was to get the oil out of a 2GM20.

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[wiggy]

I got myself an oil extractor for the GM10 and it is fantastic, cant remember the name but is has ball shaped oil collector with hand pump on the top. Anyone know the name?

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[JackFrobisher]

Likewise, I fitted a length of copper to the flexible pipe. I used 8mm microbore central heating pipe without any difficulty at all. I recall that the 1GM10 has a rubber stopper on the dipstick to plug the hole, which is much larger than the actual dipstick.
Apropos of a pump, I have used several different types and by far, the ones that have a built-in reservoir are easier and cleaner to use, allbeit much more expensive. I found that the small brass pumps that retail for £12-£15 are very messy and need more than two hands to achieve a decent sump evacuation.

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[tome]

It's a Pela oil extractor, and highly recommended. Comes with pipes of various diameters. Give it 20 pumps, and just leave it to drain the oil.

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[wiggy]

Thats it PELA, it was on the tip of my keyboard!!!!

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[Gordon]

I bought one of those extractors..... not bad but I don't think they get gunge out at the bottom.........so now I simply place a white plastic rubbish bin linner (the ones you can get in rolls) under sump of warm engine and screw drain plug out.


Plastic bag takes the lot and is flexible enough to pull out when all the oil is
drained into it

Works a treat

Gordon

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[wiggy]

Dont remove the sump drain plug on a GM10 nits not a drain plug and hods some internal pipework, the Yanmar book says use sump pump. If you remove it you could drasstically reduce oil pressure as mentioned in PBO ask the experts recently.

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[gjeffery]

Many thanks to all for useful advice. I will shop around for a Pela.

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[ditchcrawler]

Pela works well on 1GM10.Run engine for a while so oil is warm.Compass Watersports(see YBW website) are doing them for £19.95 plus P&P.I have used Compass many times & have found them to be excellent.Some others think differently.

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[gjeffery]

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, I bought one yesterday from Pumpkin for £26. But I think that is still a comparatively good price.

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