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Old 7th June 2020, 15:22   #11
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While not to everyone's taste, with the K Series and KV6 being such clean engines you can also remove the oil via a vacuum pump using the dipstick - I'd drop the oil as usual every other change though.
Saves all the mess underneath with the undertrays - as Blink mentions, it's a bit of a pain.

For those particularly fastidious, dropping the sump every few years was always a good chance to clean any crud from the oil pickup too - in most of the cars I've done this to, I've found a couple of bits stuck up there.
Usually the K Series camshaft cover flaking away as they tend to do, and finding its way to the sump.
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Old 10th June 2020, 10:54   #12
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While not to everyone's taste, with the K Series and KV6 being such clean engines you can also remove the oil via a vacuum pump using the dipstick .....

For those particularly fastidious, dropping the sump every few years was always a good chance to clean any crud from the oil pickup too - in most of the cars I've done this to, I've found a couple of bits stuck up there.
Usually the K Series camshaft cover flaking away as they tend to do, and finding its way to the sump.
I've got a Sealey TP69 (looks suspiciously like a Pela 650) which gets the oil out pretty quickly. In fact it takes longer to clean the pump out afterwards than it does to change the oil! The pump is great if you're not changing the filter (undertray!).

Maybe I'll whip the sump off next time and see if I can find anything (a few gold sovereigns would be handy ).
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I use one of these. No problem with access as the handle swivels.
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