Originally Posted By: Rab6715
Originally Posted By: raytseng
used an oil extractor and didnt spill a drop.
I bought an oil extractor that you pump up and then release the valve. It works pretty good, but for me it only seems to pull about 80% of the oil out of my lawn mower. Tilting the lawn mower on its side and letting it rest there for 5-10 minutes gets 98+% of the oil out. You can attach a funnel to the filler tube to reduce spills when tilting the mower. I like getting the most oil out as possible, so I've stopped using the extractor for mower changes. If I was changing my mower oi1 dozens of times per year, i'd probably use the extractor, but I'm only changing it once a year, so the tilt method serves me well.
I just ordered the smaller LiquiVac and have to agree, I poured what it sucked out into an empty quart bottle and it was only about 14oz out of the 20oz it holds. To me that's not acceptable because this was break in oil I was removing at my 2 hour change, my next five hour change I will make sure it all comes out. If I'm going to hassle with changing the oil I want it all to come out. It also wouldn't pull it all out in one time like all the videos I watched, I had to pump it 20 pumps four or five times and finally gave up. Maybe I didn't let it get hot enough, I let it run 2 minutes like the manual said to do. Next time I will try it after letting it sit for a couple minutes after I get done mowing.