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Old 02-14-2007, 07:34 PM
tarbe tarbe is offline
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Originally Posted by sixto View Post
Here we go again...

My thinking is that gravity draining will not extend the useful life of the car for my purposes; that is, we're talking about a difference like 400K miles for extracting and 750K miles for gravity draining. Basically extracting is good enough for me even if in my heart I believe gravity draining to be more thorough.

Sixto
93 300SD 3.0

I get more oil out of my 617 with the extractor than by gravity. I have proven this by draining until the drips stopped and then inserting the suction tube and pulling several ounces (big deal ) out.

I have also evacuated and then pulled the drain plug to only have nothing come out.

So, I will not be pulling my drain plug again any time soon.


Tim
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