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[Webby the Bear]

did a quick oil change on the Ford today (drained normally via the drain plug hole). had a pan full of oil (about 4L) and I was in the garage and thought 'hmmm ive got a pan full of oil sitting right next to a oil vac pump... lets see how long it will take'

15 mins later it had got about a litre 

You need a better pump,mine will do about a litre a minute with hot oil.

to be honest mate it was a cheap one and I don't want to do it this way myself anyway unless I had no choice

[Shackeng]

Anyone tempted to buy the Screwfix spherical one, avoid at all costs, I bought one to use on SWMBO's Jazz, and returned it after one aborted attempt to use it. DO NOT BUY ONE!!!

[dbdb]

I've never tried the manual ones but have heard bad reports about them.  I can understand why, I have a manual pump and that is useless.  The electric ones are quite good like this one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370857766088 . Only £20 less than half the screwfix manual one.   Being electric you just leave them running,  doesn't take long as I recall.  They work fine with quite hot used engine oil but don't try them on unfiltered oil with particles in eg the sludge in a rusty diesel tank knackered my last one in a minute.  Filthy filtered engine oil seems to be fine though.