This might sound like a crazy idea, but has anybody ever considered using a shop vac to generate the vacuum to suck the oil out of your sump? What I'm envisioning is making a sealed container (3 gallon bucket?) with a large port (for the vacuum hose) and a small port with hose attached that can be stuck down the dipstick hole.
Turn on the vac, and wait for the bucket to fill up with oil. Sound doable? The only drawback I think think of is the vac might not like having such a restricted intake, but maybe we could work around that with some kind of vent.
Thoughts?
Turn on the vac, and wait for the bucket to fill up with oil. Sound doable? The only drawback I think think of is the vac might not like having such a restricted intake, but maybe we could work around that with some kind of vent.
Thoughts?