Old refrigerator compressor might do fine. They are small and not too heavy for a long period of time now. Plus a free good used one should be out there with little issue to obtain.
Also they can be used as a very light volume compressor. Many articles about hooking them up to a pressure tank exist. If still good they are also pretty durable.
Personally I would hook them up to a tank. Charge the tank with a good vacuum. Shut the tank valve off. Fasten my extractor hose and insert it down the dipstick tube.
Open the valve and the oil should extract pretty fast. Just an old propane tank would do it. No safety risk because even if the tank imploded from the vacuum it would just fold in. As you where pulling it down with the vacuum.
My instinct is the tanks are available free as well. Plus rugged enough. Close the valve and put it upside down on a bench after it has gotten the oil out. Then let it drain through the extraction hose into a disposable container.
This will be slow but as long as your disposal container is larger than the engines oil capacity you should not have to babysit it. Or just screw a larger drain hose on. To increase the drain rate somewhat.
I would just remove the original propane tank valve and construct a ninety degree turn to a gate valve. Also I would use a thin walled piece of steel tube as a wand to insert into the dipstick tube on any car that had a straight dipstick tube.
Plastic vinyl tubing might collapse under the high vacuum plus that internal cross sectional area is much larger than using thick walled vinyl plastic tubing. Of the same outside diameter.
Perhaps almost doubling the extraction rate in the process. With little adaption for differant dip tube sizes. This is also durable enough to last several lifetimes of use. For all brands of cars.
I also can see no reason it could not also be used to vacuum bleed the brake system when changing the brake fluid. The easier it is to do the more likely it will get done. Although on higher tech brake systems I would check first to see if it were usable on them .
Or you change a brake line or caliper. Using this the master cylinder if old does not get damaged by stroking it into unused bore areas. If foot bleeding and you do not need a helper to do that as well..
Last edited by barry12345; 03-18-2018 at 04:47 PM.
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