I cant be bothered to undo all the bolts on the pan to drop it and refiill it so I was thinking of buying a washer motor from Halfords and some tubing and suctioning out from the dip stick hole - I plan to do about 3 lots of drain refill cycles - Anyone tried this and can say how much you can get out in one go?

 

Cheers.

Never heard of that one! And you won't get the oil out from the torque converter either. Only way, imo, is under line pressure. Going rate from an auto specialist is £100 incl oil.

You also won't get any debris out and will just flush it round the system when you refill.

Sounds like a very complicated and inefficient way of doing it when you can just undo the pan bolts!

You never get the oil out of the convertor without power flushing anyway, and as for undoing a load of bolts with the car 1 foot off the ground and getting covered in oil isnt my idea of a day well spent - Good point about the debris though.

ERRR,Pretty sure i saw a drain plug on mine,have to check that one! :D

Yep knew i saw it somewhere!

I aint got one on mine.....sob. I'd have to undo every little bolt from the pan and then get deluged in transmission oil - lovely.

I aint got one on mine.....sob. I'd have to undo every little bolt from the pan and then get deluged in transmission oil - lovely.

 

Might as well add a drain plug if your going to drop the pan anyway.....

you can buy a kit to do or take it to a transmission specialist or just drill a 10"hole and weld a low profile nut the innerside of the pan of course you must have a matching bolt with copper or plastic washer to bolt into it.

Bolt must be no longer than 10mm in threaded length.....ive done this many times to customers cars.........without a drain plug of course. :D

sweet...gearbox rear mount held on with two bolts out of six!!!

 

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And the hanger brackets missing for the cats :x:

Glad it ain't mine then!! :rofl:

Right then - having decided to do the job myself - does anyone have any advice to avoid dropping oil over me and the drive way - ie - a good way to drain the oil bearing in mind I dont have a drain plug. I'll see about getting one fitted when I take the pan off, is there anywhere that sells this type of thing and where would be the best spot to fit one - I guess not exactly on the bottom as it might get scraped off on a speed bump or something.....All ideas welcome!

As a Heath Robinson type idea could you not use the oil cooler circuit? Take the out to cooler feed side to a big drum for waste oil then run the engine so that it pumps out the old while you add similar replacement quantity to the filler dipstick tube. Obviously the filter strainer will stay dirty but eventually you would have replaced the original oil.

 

Nah loads of stuff could do wrong doing a transfusion like this - still think syphon from the sump via filler tube or using a drill operated pump and drop the pan when its about dry. At least then you can see what the strainer is like.