Oil Changing.

[marinabrian]

The answer is simple, if you cannot change the oil from underneath for whatever reason, be it ill health, nowhere to do the job, etc etc etc then employ someone else to do the job on your behalf.

When I'm servicing a 1000HP Caterpillar diesel generating set, the lube oil, all 73 litres of it, comes out of the bottom, and a sample of the used oil sent to Desford for analysis.

Suction pumps are not fit for purpose, if they make you feel better about "doing your bit" then that's great, but make no mistake they don't do the job well at all, and the reason for the sump plug being on the bottom is to drain the old lube oil as completely as it is possible to do so.


I've just bought 20 litres of oil, and I've three oil changes to do on the fleet later on...........once one of them, currently elevated, is down off the ramps and run up to temperature with a fast motorway run.

I've seen time and time again the results of vehicles that haven't had the oil changed correctly, some catastrophic, and others not so much, but I've no desire to subject any car of mine to a "half a job" oil change thanks


Brian