That was me my first week at Ford. And it was their brand new fast lane oil change area. Nice, white, and up front. Covered my self, the car, and the walls with oil.
No he demonstrated in a video where I think it was a Mercedes but it required you to extract the oil from the top of the engine so you would need this and it’s nice that he provides some low-cost solutions. Thanks bud
I've used the cheap one to change the oil on a cheap rallycross car because they have a big ass metal protective plate under the sump. Saves so much time
@@ITSBEDTIMESIR agreed. Yea average man doesn't need an extractor but if you do it for a living it's well worth it. Same goes for impact vs box wrench.
Retired boat mechanic here. For gas or small diesel engines, I used the manual suck pump to get fluids out. Cleanest way to get oil out of a boat engine. All Mercruiser and Volvo gas engines are GM blocks, and they do come with oil pan plugs. There's just no way to get to those plugs so we stick the skinny straw down the dip stick tube to get the oil. Bigger more expensive boats have powered oil extractors for oil and transmissions. Those engines can hold a lot of oil, measuring in gallons. Have fun 👍
I got a $35, 12V oil pump from Amazon. Does 1 Gal in about 3-5 min. Not the fastest, but perfect for oil changes. Just save an empty jug for the next oil change.
Evacuating the oil does not get the settlement out of the oil Pan Which in return causes premature failure because it keeps getting ran through the engine or transmission
Your oil once warm will actually suspend the particles within itself. Basically getting the same amount of particulates out as if you were to pull the plug.
@@nicholasmenza4406 Well I think I know what I'm talking about I was in the business for over 20 years until I had my heart attack now I got $10000 worth of tolls on my garage Collecting dust that I will never sell Is a huge part of my past
@@bryanwalls6909 Even with experience, not everyone is an absolute genius. Even if you use the normal plug method, you most certainly do not get all the particulates out of the engine. Even with magnets, they all only do so much. If you were very anal about getting EVERYTHING. You'd need to completely remove the oil pan each time, which is a lot of labour for oil changes.
@@rainydaylady6596 as long as there is a dipstick or at least a tube that goes into the sump (some cars don’t have a dipstick but they have a tube with a blanking plug at the top of the tube) and the tubes vary in diameter and length so make sure you get a selection of different sized tubes and don’t push them too far in or they can coil up. Push it just enough until you feel it hit the bottom of the sump. I’ve been using one for over 20 years and they are fantastic. All this crap about how they are no good from people that have never used one. You can also use them to drain fuel tanks if you use the wrong fuel and this is the only tool that can do that
that honestly seems like a reasonable price for all of those. fortunately, all of the cars i own have the drain plug in an easily accessible place, but if i ever got a car where that isn’t the case i’m glad i know about these now.
I have the green one from HarborFreight. Love that thing. Simple. Easy to use, Fast, no mess, works just like the one from Snap-On but just holds 6 and 1/4 gallons. I work on small engines like riding mowers and zero turns so 6 and 1/4 gallons is plenty big enough for me.
If you have metal shaving or gunk would an oil extractor pick them up? In my experience sucking any sort of fluid up won’t pickup heavier gunk in the fluid, however draining it will make that gunk flow out.
Is it going to be any good for a motorbike? Looking at that for my partner. He likes to change his oil regularly. I don’t drive but they seem a good idea to me, is it worthwhile? Or is it just another one of those use once and dump toys? haha 🤣
@@dannytonnessen6896 haha! I think it should work just fine. I'm not worried about the tank size to hold the oil, but rather if the hole to take oil out from the motorbik is too small for the tubes it comes with. I say buy it, check the tubes if they fit, then decide to return from there. Either way, your partner should appreciate the fact that you tried doing something nice, so you're good 🤟🏼
@@acousticavoiska9461 yup Mercedes. The same company that hides the battery in the fender, puts the cabin air filter behind the super technical dash, and at one point had a TPMS that wouldn’t tell you exactly which tire was low.
Maybe one day the auto companies will design an easy way to drain the oil from the engine. Maybe some kind of...plug or something. Sometimes I say crazy things.
For people that have limited resources, funds and mobility, jacking a car up and crawling under it can be difficult. Speaking of gravity, it's a bitch when it determines the mass of an object when considering how much damage mass can due to ones skull. I have a roadster that sits 4" off the ground, jacking that car up high enough to get jackstands under it is tricky. Ramps don't work either. But a siphon is the bees knees.
Yeah and get crushed by it because a crappy jackstand gave out and you have to unbolt 5 bolts to have access to one while screwing around down under your 1 ton jackstand gave out crushing you and killing you slowly
Its free to pull a drain plug lol its not hard and if your worried about issues with drain plug do it yourself i wont take mine car to a lube shop i would rather do it myself so i know it wont get messed up been 6 years still no issue
Euro cars tend to recommend oil extraction. Easier, faster, cleaner process. You can always remove the drain bolt, which has a tiny risk of stripping. Really is just "new school", "old school" methods.
For someone at home, they don’t need this. They just need to slide their way under the car & remove the plug. However, if you are doing oil changes all day, getting down on your back for hours a day will definitely pose some problems. The extracted is for the technician’s health, that’s what I think anyways
I just got this and I love it but how do you keep the hoses and stuff clean? I was thinking maybe sucking soap water through them after each job but mine is and injector also so I didn’t want soap residue going back into stuff.
can you go over the on off valve and attachment currently attached to the hose? nm just realized it comes that way. do you use any of the attachments or just a good seal on the dipstick housing?
This was definitely in response to the comments on the Mercedes oil change video with the jealous and petty types saying “an easy change using $1000 equipment” yeah, because you spend money buying a premium car but then won’t spend even a few hundred $ looking after it properly. Stick with your Kia’s and Toyotas if it’s that much of an issue.
This will definitely come in handy for me seeing as how I bought a car and the oil pan plug is stuck and I don't even want to mess with it and try to tap it out and mess up the pan and have to replace that cuz it's a headache of an oil pan
Oversize the hole and tap it for a bigger nut and copper crush washer. I can do that with a hand drill on my back in a driveway its not rocket science bud
@@cotyrinehart4933 yeah it's only about $300 it's aluminum and it's a complete headache to replace it it's not a truck I can't just pop it right off there's a bunch of shit in the way
Not everyone wants to pay for a pan drop service on their transmission, so a mini service let's you pull the fluid out the dip stick and refill.it without dropping the pan (and risking a leak because the gasket is being reused). Cheaper service that's easier to stomach for many customers, as not everyone wants to pay $200+ for a full trans fluid and filter service
@@TheJusnic82 A lot of new cars, and luxury cars have no drain plugs. Instead of draining the oil through the plug, you instead use one of these vacuums that go in where the oil dipstick goes, and it sucks out all of the oil.
doing this leaves shit all in the engine at the bottom. not worth the time save. just take the extra 10 minutes to remove the plastic panels and put them back on
Or... just loosen the drain nut on the oil pan? Why do you have to be extra? Spend $500 on a pump that probably takes longer to drain the oil or just do it by hand. Unless the oil is too icky and gross for you
We're is your store.i need to take my Mercedes 2001 mL 320 needs oild change .I don't no nothing my 1st car.would help.ty and great video I watch them all daily.
The 2nd trainee at the shop I was working at, forgot to close the tap on the top when he was emptying it. The oil sprayed everywhere, like on the wall and on the ceiling. 😂😂
Quickly does this work on all models cars, or truck, I mean if I don't have to jack up my car and fight with a drain plug this is great, will it work for a transmission flush as well
One question..: my bmw f31 m340i 2018 has no oilstick.. it‘s electric.. where do you suck out the oil? I mean.. there is no pipe or sth. by the engin.. ok under the car.. thats to easy😅
One of the reasons why I would never buy a Mercedes, or a car with our a drain hole that’s assessable. I could never figure out why they made it so you had to goThrough all this to change your damn oil
I was all with you until you mentioned the manual harbor freight pump because that thing is absolute garbage and now I understand that this is simply just an advertisement for it.. I've bought two of them and couldn't even get an oil change out of them but you can't return them because they got oil in them
We had machines to do transmissions power steering system coolant systems and of coarse cooling systems a/c it would flush out the old fluid and fill it at same time I bought a 2001 ford expedition in 2004 and changed evey fluid and truck ran brand new with no issues
You do realize most cars only need 5 quarts of oil for an oil change right? So even the cheapest one, you might be able to get two oil changes out of it. Your math is really off boss man
All from the top. You only need to go under to change the filter unless it’s accessible from the top. It’s a great time saver. No more damaged drain plugs, pita undertrays or jacks to mess around with
"Millennials" smh stfu dummy and actually do some research before making a comment like that acting like you're so much smarter and better than everyone when you have no idea wtf you're even talking about. These cars don't have a drain plug genius! How embarrassing
It’s all fun in games until the new guy , covers himself and shop with pressurized oil
Dude it sucks... the hot mess everwhere
😂😂😂 I’ve seen this happened
Or gets hit teeth knocked through his gums because he didn’t raise the pan part before emptying it.
That was me my first week at Ford. And it was their brand new fast lane oil change area. Nice, white, and up front. Covered my self, the car, and the walls with oil.
No he demonstrated in a video where I think it was a Mercedes but it required you to extract the oil from the top of the engine so you would need this and it’s nice that he provides some low-cost solutions. Thanks bud
I've used the cheap one to change the oil on a cheap rallycross car because they have a big ass metal protective plate under the sump. Saves so much time
It’s nice to have a reliable automotive technician. Clean shop, speaks volumes!!🍻🍻
Drain pan, fancy one at that, $10.
Yeah but when you do oil changes 10-12 hours a day 20 minutes per change then you kinda need something like that. Or you’d need a pretty big oil pan 😂
@@ITSBEDTIMESIR agreed. Yea average man doesn't need an extractor but if you do it for a living it's well worth it. Same goes for impact vs box wrench.
@@ITSBEDTIMESIR 20 minute oil change what you stoping and having a samich and a smoke
@@ITSBEDTIMESIR also sometimes you have to wrestle a tight oil filter in a shitty spot for a couple minutes anyway
He did another video, the extractor works better than a drain pan.
Dude $90 for the hand pump one? Yeah just pony up a few extra bucks and get the harbor freight one.
Harbor Freight tank vacuum extractor works awesome, bitch to empty out but easy to use. Well worth the $150 or so.
Don't forget the air compressor you now need to buy in order to operate it if you're not working in a shop.
@@Darion350 exactly… this might worth it for a biker they’re like $50 actually
Retired boat mechanic here. For gas or small diesel engines, I used the manual suck pump to get fluids out. Cleanest way to get oil out of a boat engine.
All Mercruiser and Volvo gas engines are GM blocks, and they do come with oil pan plugs. There's just no way to get to those plugs so we stick the skinny straw down the dip stick tube to get the oil.
Bigger more expensive boats have powered oil extractors for oil and transmissions. Those engines can hold a lot of oil, measuring in gallons.
Have fun 👍
I got a $35, 12V oil pump from Amazon. Does 1 Gal in about 3-5 min. Not the fastest, but perfect for oil changes. Just save an empty jug for the next oil change.
"Honestly I don't know why I still have this thing"... never forget where you came from, be humble.
Lmao don’t tell other people what to do. And there’s no need to keep junk.
@@ohanaross-roberts97 how is it junk?
I don't think he implied that it was junk but since he has the larger one he'll never use the old one so no need to have it sitting around.
For some reason, I thought the first extractor was a scale model until half way through the video. I have no idea why! 😆
Evacuating the oil does not get the settlement out of the oil Pan Which in return causes premature failure because it keeps getting ran through the engine or transmission
Your oil once warm will actually suspend the particles within itself. Basically getting the same amount of particulates out as if you were to pull the plug.
Differnt story with trans fluid though!
@@nicholasmenza4406 Well I think I know what I'm talking about I was in the business for over 20 years until I had my heart attack now I got $10000 worth of tolls on my garage Collecting dust that I will never sell Is a huge part of my past
@@bryanwalls6909 Even with experience, not everyone is an absolute genius. Even if you use the normal plug method, you most certainly do not get all the particulates out of the engine. Even with magnets, they all only do so much. If you were very anal about getting EVERYTHING. You'd need to completely remove the oil pan each time, which is a lot of labour for oil changes.
@@nicholasmenza4406 then it collects in filter or magnet on pan, new plastic pans have magnets
A must have for inboard boats!
The way you supply your techs makes me want to come work for you
I have the small one to use on my civic it's been a great addition on my small garage as I also use the vacuum pump to fix ACs
So you remove the pump and connect it to another reservoir?
@@efrainromero865 i just put the tank into a vacuum and stick the longest tube possible
I really need to get myself one of those oil drainers!! Would definitely save a lot more time and save my back!!
Can those be used on any car?
@@rainydaylady6596 as long as there is a dipstick or at least a tube that goes into the sump (some cars don’t have a dipstick but they have a tube with a blanking plug at the top of the tube) and the tubes vary in diameter and length so make sure you get a selection of different sized tubes and don’t push them too far in or they can coil up. Push it just enough until you feel it hit the bottom of the sump. I’ve been using one for over 20 years and they are fantastic. All this crap about how they are no good from people that have never used one. You can also use them to drain fuel tanks if you use the wrong fuel and this is the only tool that can do that
that honestly seems like a reasonable price for all of those. fortunately, all of the cars i own have the drain plug in an easily accessible place, but if i ever got a car where that isn’t the case i’m glad i know about these now.
You can try to find used ones from shops that are closing. They sell everything cheap
I have the green one from HarborFreight. Love that thing. Simple. Easy to use, Fast, no mess, works just like the one from Snap-On but just holds 6 and 1/4 gallons. I work on small engines like riding mowers and zero turns so 6 and 1/4 gallons is plenty big enough for me.
You have it because that's what helped you to get ahead and to keep your mind right you need a piece of what made you succeed and think back.
If you have metal shaving or gunk would an oil extractor pick them up? In my experience sucking any sort of fluid up won’t pickup heavier gunk in the fluid, however draining it will make that gunk flow out.
Following.
Yes. He showed this in another video. He also showed that some expensive cars require techs to use extractors
I have the green harbor freight jobbie. It's never let me down for differential or PTU fluid changes
I have the plastic one from Harbor Freight. It's actually really easy to use!
Is it going to be any good for a motorbike? Looking at that for my partner. He likes to change his oil regularly. I don’t drive but they seem a good idea to me, is it worthwhile? Or is it just another one of those use once and dump toys? haha 🤣
@@dannytonnessen6896 haha! I think it should work just fine. I'm not worried about the tank size to hold the oil, but rather if the hole to take oil out from the motorbik is too small for the tubes it comes with. I say buy it, check the tubes if they fit, then decide to return from there.
Either way, your partner should appreciate the fact that you tried doing something nice, so you're good 🤟🏼
Use to be anbl drain pan guy. No longer have driveway space, and looking to get an oul extractor for changing in the streets. Looks pretty useful
Lol make sure you close the valve before you hook up the air. We had so many oil fountains from the oil techs forgetting to.
I bought the holt pnumatic oil extractor from harbor frieght and it does a great job.
My grandpa has an old propane tank with the bottom half of a different tank welded to a pipe on top, with wire mesh in the top section. Works great!
On my mom's Smart we literally drilled a hole in the oil pan so we could install a drain plug.
Smart cars don't have drain plugs? That's hard to believe.
@@abundantharmony I believe Smart is owned by Mercedes and have the same oil "technology"
@@acousticavoiska9461 yup Mercedes. The same company that hides the battery in the fender, puts the cabin air filter behind the super technical dash, and at one point had a TPMS that wouldn’t tell you exactly which tire was low.
@@TheBigChad Chrysler loves putting the battering in the fender
@@abundantharmony early ones don’t
500 bucks? That's it??? I was expecting like 2grand at least
Same here. Oh, I know why. It doesn’t have the “Snap On” label on the side.
Now tell them what happens when you over fill one of those.
What happens? 😃 sounds interesting lol
At Toyota, my oil extraction tools are the oil catch bucket and a 14mm wrench
4-6 oil changes isn’t really that much 🙄😂 you realize when you have to empty them all day lmao
Maybe one day the auto companies will design an easy way to drain the oil from the engine. Maybe some kind of...plug or something.
Sometimes I say crazy things.
Perhaps on the bottom of the engine located possibly on the oil pan itself somewhere.
I see your vision and think it could in theory work.
😂
Yeah, and then maybe will be some day when gravity will do the job
For people that have limited resources, funds and mobility, jacking a car up and crawling under it can be difficult. Speaking of gravity, it's a bitch when it determines the mass of an object when considering how much damage mass can due to ones skull. I have a roadster that sits 4" off the ground, jacking that car up high enough to get jackstands under it is tricky. Ramps don't work either. But a siphon is the bees knees.
Yeah and get crushed by it because a crappy jackstand gave out and you have to unbolt 5 bolts to have access to one while screwing around down under your 1 ton jackstand gave out crushing you and killing you slowly
Or you could just remove the drain plug
Its free to pull a drain plug lol its not hard and if your worried about issues with drain plug do it yourself i wont take mine car to a lube shop i would rather do it myself so i know it wont get messed up been 6 years still no issue
Most luxury cars and new cars don't have drain plugs.
What pencentage of oil is removed using one of these? I hear they work quite well
Everything is removed it creates a vacuum.
Biggest complaint of the HF one is it sucks to empty. They need a pump out method or valve at the bottom
Have the 4th one for my mercury boat engine workes really well no mess.
why would you want to use an extractor instead of draining. Curious as to the advantages/disadvantages.
Euro cars tend to recommend oil extraction. Easier, faster, cleaner process. You can always remove the drain bolt, which has a tiny risk of stripping.
Really is just "new school", "old school" methods.
For someone at home, they don’t need this. They just need to slide their way under the car & remove the plug. However, if you are doing oil changes all day, getting down on your back for hours a day will definitely pose some problems. The extracted is for the technician’s health, that’s what I think anyways
Use the hand pump one on site for generators and small diggers. A lot quicker, cleaner and easier.
@@user-px7ls4oi4m work smarter not harder. Way cleaner as well.
I just got this and I love it but how do you keep the hoses and stuff clean? I was thinking maybe sucking soap water through them after each job but mine is and injector also so I didn’t want soap residue going back into stuff.
That harbor freight 2.3 gallon one is nice for heavy equipment specially when you can’t get a service truck to it
can you go over the on off valve and attachment currently attached to the hose? nm just realized it comes that way. do you use any of the attachments or just a good seal on the dipstick housing?
How do you empty it the oil extractor?
Miss.my old HF pump.
May just go get one tomorrow
That’s awesome. How do you empty the big one?
Thank you !
I have a jeep 4.0 and a b20 honda engine. Can i extract oil from those? Or is the drain plug the most efficient way for those engines?
This dude is a rock star ⭐.
This was definitely in response to the comments on the Mercedes oil change video with the jealous and petty types saying “an easy change using $1000 equipment” yeah, because you spend money buying a premium car but then won’t spend even a few hundred $ looking after it properly. Stick with your Kia’s and Toyotas if it’s that much of an issue.
ayo don’t talk about Toyota like that cmon man
I use the $90 one in my small engine shop
This will definitely come in handy for me seeing as how I bought a car and the oil pan plug is stuck and I don't even want to mess with it and try to tap it out and mess up the pan and have to replace that cuz it's a headache of an oil pan
Why not buy a new pan? They are fairly cheap
Oversize the hole and tap it for a bigger nut and copper crush washer.
I can do that with a hand drill on my back in a driveway its not rocket science bud
@@dylanmccallister1888 its aluminum..
@@cotyrinehart4933 yeah it's only about $300 it's aluminum and it's a complete headache to replace it it's not a truck I can't just pop it right off there's a bunch of shit in the way
@@MikeAnnunziato who taught you to tap? Give me your fathers number we need to have a chat
Thanks for the info..
I'm gonna buy one of those just for my 1996 chevy truck :)
Would this be practical to use with transmission fluid also?
Why not just use the drain plug and drain pan?
Not everyone wants to pay for a pan drop service on their transmission, so a mini service let's you pull the fluid out the dip stick and refill.it without dropping the pan (and risking a leak because the gasket is being reused). Cheaper service that's easier to stomach for many customers, as not everyone wants to pay $200+ for a full trans fluid and filter service
Also this is how some new cars get serviced... Suck the oil out the top 😅
@@AzureCrux merc have been doing it for years
@BuddyHandsome huh?
@@TheJusnic82 A lot of new cars, and luxury cars have no drain plugs. Instead of draining the oil through the plug, you instead use one of these vacuums that go in where the oil dipstick goes, and it sucks out all of the oil.
doing this leaves shit all in the engine at the bottom. not worth the time save. just take the extra 10 minutes to remove the plastic panels and put them back on
That is why mechanics use them. Engine lasts too long if you actually remove all those floating metal bits 😂
@@johndough5854 bad mechanics you mean. its called laziness. the bottom panels never get cleaned either.
@@PneumaticFrog valid point. Good to get a magnetic plug to help collect some small amount of the particles
Plastic panels?
I love your video ty
Why not just dump it from the sump ?
Get the harbor freight one for the air compressor. You do not want to be hand pumping milkshake thick diff fuild
Or... just loosen the drain nut on the oil pan? Why do you have to be extra? Spend $500 on a pump that probably takes longer to drain the oil or just do it by hand. Unless the oil is too icky and gross for you
I got the green one love it
Problem is the filter, you still have to change it.
From experience that plastics ones not worth shit it just get the cheap metal one or get fancy
Does the oil from the filter basket run into the tank?
Lmao get two of the green ones. Ehh why not.
My dad's motorcycle shop uses the third one
We're is your store.i need to take my Mercedes 2001 mL 320 needs oild change .I don't no nothing my 1st car.would help.ty and great video I watch them all daily.
The 2nd trainee at the shop I was working at, forgot to close the tap on the top when he was emptying it. The oil sprayed everywhere, like on the wall and on the ceiling. 😂😂
Where is your shop located?
Why an extractor instead of regular oil pan drain,sorry for my ignorance
Quickly does this work on all models cars, or truck, I mean if I don't have to jack up my car and fight with a drain plug this is great, will it work for a transmission flush as well
One question..: my bmw f31 m340i 2018 has no oilstick.. it‘s electric.. where do you suck out the oil? I mean.. there is no pipe or sth. by the engin.. ok under the car.. thats to easy😅
Just don't let the apprentice empty it.....just just kidding definitely let him
Where do you get rid of this oil
what you do with the wasted oil ?
One of the reasons why I would never buy a Mercedes, or a car with our a drain hole that’s assessable. I could never figure out why they made it so you had to goThrough all this to change your damn oil
I was all with you until you mentioned the manual harbor freight pump because that thing is absolute garbage and now I understand that this is simply just an advertisement for it.. I've bought two of them and couldn't even get an oil change out of them but you can't return them because they got oil in them
I have a machine similar to that to do radiators.
We had machines to do transmissions power steering system coolant systems and of coarse cooling systems a/c it would flush out the old fluid and fill it at same time I bought a 2001 ford expedition in 2004 and changed evey fluid and truck ran brand new with no issues
You do realize most cars only need 5 quarts of oil for an oil change right? So even the cheapest one, you might be able to get two oil changes out of it. Your math is really off boss man
Where's the shop?
Address
You can use this for all cars ?
He still has his old extractor to remember where he is coming from
@Brian F good question indeed
How do you extract oil from an n54
Drain oil always and used 2 quarts to flush sediment !
I never thought aboit using some cheap oil to flush it in oil changes, good idea
I would prefer draining from the pan directly, that way I can see if there are any abnormalities in my oil. Doing it this way just seems..... lazy?
Question for the folks in the comments. If you use this, can it be done from the top of the car and if so do you still need to go underneath the car?
Usually Extract the oil out from the dipstick
All from the top. You only need to go under to change the filter unless it’s accessible from the top. It’s a great time saver. No more damaged drain plugs, pita undertrays or jacks to mess around with
You don’t get all the sediments by pumping.
What model is that lincoln?
Just wondering…. Ummmmmm… u think I can have that old oil thing??? Since I got a new one anyway lol
Its sad you can't undo a plug I'd tap I own in if possible
extract butane from hash oil with that, make more money
I think it’s stupid that you would change the oil without seeing the pan is clean!!!
👏👏👏🙌
They just suck the filter out that way
90 for that? Really. eBay, like 15
No oil drain plug?
Yeah I paid less than $20 for my crescent brand Crescent wrench
bout 25 years ago and the oil comes out via gravity is great. Millennials
"Millennials" smh stfu dummy and actually do some research before making a comment like that acting like you're so much smarter and better than everyone when you have no idea wtf you're even talking about. These cars don't have a drain plug genius! How embarrassing
Keep it to if one of the other brakes
Shit let me buy the one that you started with maybe I’ll end up like you
I don’t get it man. Why not to unplug it from the bottom ?
Because we are doing this all day, every day and time is money. It’s how we keep a roof over our head.
New cars do not have deep stick