Topsider Oil Extractor

[SmithIns]

I have read the articles about using the "Topsider" oil vacuum extractor.

I've search the internet for a place that sells them. Can't seem to find it anywhere.

Can anyone give me some guidance as to where I can buy one?

Thanks

[Mike Richards]

All you have to do is key in "Topsider" in the SEARCH facility at this site. I've already done that. Click on the URL below. Tons of posts on this subject.

PS - save your $$$ and drain it out the bottom. This technique will offer you the opportunity to see how things look down below when draining the oil.


http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/search.php?searchid=150289

[pberku]

If you have a shop-Vac, a Fuel can, and a 5' * 3/8" rubber tube, you just got yourself an extremely cheap, highly efficient, home made oil extractor, that works better than the topsider.

Do a search to get the instructions on how to built one. It works great, and unlike the topsider, you don't need to pump it. Just turn the shop-vac on, and the oil gets extracted into the fuel can.

Try using the key word "Topsider", "Shop-Vac", or, "Oil extractor". You will find it.

Phil

[d2bernhard]

If you want to suck your oil, you will be happy with this:

MightyVac 7201 [not LiquiVac as I originally posted]. Search and yee shall find.

Topsider is not designed from the gound up to do this job. (It is a blue gas can with a bicycle pump) MightyVac 7201 [not LiquiVac] is purpose designed and built.

[400E]

Originally Posted by SmithIns

I have read the articles about using the "Topsider" oil vacuum extractor.

I've search the internet for a place that sells them. Can't seem to find it anywhere.

Can anyone give me some guidance as to where I can buy one?

Thanks

Most sites that sell Topsiders are marine supply stores (since inboard marine engines need to have their oil removed from above). Do another internet search on "topsider oil" and you'll find a number of vendors.

I've used mine for 3 years and like it. The Liquivac product also looks like a reasonable choice, though I haven't tried it. (It is plastic, while the Topsider is metal.)

[cdanschwartz]

I bought the Mityvac liquivac. There is a problem with the design. The pressure is retained by the use of a rubber stopper that inserts in the pour spout. This rubber stopper gets contaminated by oil and swells and it becomes impossible to remove. At that point you cannot clean out the interior and the unit can only be used to remove old fluids and can't be used to pump in new fluids.

I don't know about the Topsider, but I would not buy the Liquivac.

[nglitz]

Look here. Topsider or Liquivac, your choice. Spare parts, too. Essentially the same thing.

I bought a Liquivac on eBay and it works fine. Some of the tubing is fairly soft and tends to collapse with vacuum if the oil's too hot. No biggy, it still works.

[d2bernhard]

I am very sorry! I misquoted myself.

MightyVac 7201 is what I have. Liquivac nor Topsider (I have used this one and hate it) is not as good as this device from what I have read.

Best place to buy Topsider or equivalent in Virginia?

[deanyel]

Owning and using a topsider-like device is like the boat/RV joke - the day you get it is the second happiest day of your life, the day you get rid of it the happiest.