Hot Rods How To Fill Motor Oil Down a 1/4 Inch tube

On outboard motors they want you to fill drive oil with a pump thru the bottom drain plug, then when it gets to the proper level plug, you stop and put plugs in. The pumps are hand operated plungers that go in a container of oil. Wonder if that would work??

 

I’m at a loss for words...

 

An old high school friend had a father who entertained us with a large vocabulary of "colorful" expressions. If he'd had a particularly stressful day at work he'd tell us that a certain job was "like trying to shove a wet noodle up a bobcat's ***!"

 

Now that's hillarious!

 

I used to work at an aerospace composite company; one of the biannual services on the looms was to change the gear oil. This wouldn't be so bad, except some idiot engineer decided a #8 screw was an adequate size for draining 90w gear oil.

 

I "borrowed" a very small funnel from the kitchen and poured oil in 1 ounce at a time. Took a good part of the afternoon. You are right about "forever".

 

That idiot engineer must have been an ancestor of mine!

 

I would do it the same way I soak cables. Cut open a bicycle inner tube, hose clamp one end to the tube you need to fill, hang the other end up in the air, pour in the oil and walk away. Let gravity and time do the work.

 

How do you get the oil off the side of the block and off the floor back into the container to put it in the 1/4” hole?

 

A bit of respect for one who takes to the matter with sense, to get the job right.

 

Hello,

I have several of these types of containers in our garage. Most do not have ¼ inch hoses, but you can adapt your hose to the unit on the large containers.

They are good for all sorts of liquids. We used the different bottles for plant food, one for ant spray and one for weed killer. It is easier to have separate bottles than clean out one bottle to put in a new liquid. So, each is labeled. The tank holds a lot of liquid and come out as fast as the spray handle will allow. If one had no handle with a trigger, then what ever you can get the hose to attach to will come out or go in fast.

In your case, you will have to adapt your own line to fit. But, it will pump out as fast as you push/pull down/up the handle.

Jnaki

On the other hand, during our sailboat adventures, we had the opportunity to witness these two devices. The one on the left was our next door dock neighbor's handy tool. He used it to **** out liquids from all over his boat’s bilge areas. It worked well. He also used it to remove his oil from the small diesel motor when he changed oil. But, he spent a lot of time cleaning it to **** out the bilge area stuff. The cost of a replacement unit is not that great and so two units could provide two separate job activities. YRMV

We never had to change oil regularly like a car, but we did have the oil changed a couple of times on one of our long, 5 year owned sailboats. The mechanic came with his “pro” unit and stuck one end in the motor and turned on the connection. In a few minutes, all of the oil was in his bucket and he was finished as soon as he put in the new oil. It worked but, for a small space, it was noisy, but he did not have one little drop of oil anywhere.