Mityvac 7400 7.3 Liter Fluid Evacuator

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   serasbach permalink

   October 28, 2010

   Review by serasbach for Mityvac 7400 7.3 Liter Fluid Evacuator
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   I used this on my 2002 BMW and it seemed to work great, but the next time I went to use it- oil started coming out of the T-Handle where air normally is the only thing that escapes. I called the manufacturer, and they advised me that some synthetic oils (Mobil 1 in my case) can cause the seals in the lower part of the canister to degrade and will allow oil to bypass. They informed me that it would be covered under warranty- but Tool Topia is not working with me. When you call the line for returns, they have you leave a message- nobody ever calls you back either. I have called 4 times in the last 6 days- and nothing.

   Don’t buy this if you use synthetic oil, it won’t last long enough for your second oil change.

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   T. Briggs permalink

   October 28, 2010

   Review by T. Briggs for Mityvac 7400 7.3 Liter Fluid Evacuator
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   I’d seen this evacuator in some car care catalogs I get, but for around $75 instead of the $52 Amazon charges. I generally am fine with going under the car, but I have an S2000 now and it’s too low to go on my ramps. So, I bought this after reading many reviews.

   In short, this works great. I got it in 2 days after ordering, and it was in perfect shape. I checked, and there were no cracks or crazing in the plastic where it was screwed together. The translucent plastic also appears to be very thick – I can’t imagine the vacuum pump in this ever being strong enough to collapse it, as one review described. I work in an engine laboratory and deal with automotive tools daily – this is as high quality as most other tools you’d find in a professional garage.

   I found the instructions to be just fine. They’re only one page, but this is a simple device. In short, there are three tubes that come with it. The largest is designed to connect to the evacuator, and the other end connects to either of the smaller hoses. The small hose fit in the dipstick tube on my S2000, and it was easy to push it down to the oil pan. If you do it slowly, you can feel when the hose first touches the bottom of the pan. The engine oil was still warm from my drive home. I removed the oil fill cap on the engine and pumped the handle on the evacuator 10-12 times. The oil began to get drawn into the chamber quickly. I went inside for 5 minutes or so. When I came back out I had about 1.5 quarts of oil removed. I repeated the pump and wait routine twice more. By then I had most of the oil out and it was mostly sucking air. I did one more pump cycle to make sure I’d gotten as much as possible. According to the markings on the tank I had about 4.7 liters of oil, and the engine holds 4.8. There was easily enough left in the oil filter to make up the difference. After refilling and running the engine there was no sign of dirty oil contaminating the clean stuff. I’m confident that this got as much oil as using the drain plug would have.

   The best part was that I stayed clean – I did the whole job in my street clothes. Pouring the dirty oil into my recycle container was easy and clean too – the opening has a funnel tip on it so that the oil pours cleanly.

   If you can’t get under your car easily, or you’re just tired of doing that, I highly recommend this tool. Of course, you’ll need to be able to get the oil filter off from the top of the engine to do the whole oil change, but if you can, then this beats putting the car on ramps, changing clothes, going under and getting oily, cleaning up, etc. I see this getting a lot of use at my place.

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   Dixit S. Suthar permalink

   October 28, 2010

   Review by Dixit S. Suthar for Mityvac 7400 7.3 Liter Fluid Evacuator
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   This is an excellent product. It really works best with Mercedes and BMWs where they also have the oil filter on the top of the car so you dont even need to get under the car to remove the oil filter. Ive also used this on my Audi, which it works fine, but you still need to get under it to get the oil filter out.

   Also should point out, this wont work on some domestics because the way they snake their dipsticks into the oil pan. Clear example is the Dodge Ram 04. It comes with a tubing small enough to fit practically any car, but the dipstick on this truck snakes through to major curves so didnt work on that car.

   But I can say it will work for almost any import or german car.

   Dixit

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4. 
   serasbach permalink

   October 28, 2010

   Review by serasbach for Mityvac 7400 7.3 Liter Fluid Evacuator
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   used this on my 2002 BMW and it seemed to work great, but the next time I went to use it- oil started coming out of the T-Handle where air normally is the only thing that escapes. I called the manufacturer, and they advised me that some synthetic oils (Mobil 1 in my case) can cause the seals in the lower part of the canister to degrade and will allow oil to bypass. They informed me that it would be covered under warranty- but Tool Topia is not working with me. When you call the line for returns, they have you leave a message- nobody ever calls you back either. I have called 4 times in the last 6 days- and nothing.

   Don’t buy this if you use synthetic oil, it won’t last long enough for your second oil change.

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5. 
   Tom Deppe permalink

   October 28, 2010

   Review by Tom Deppe for Mityvac 7400 7.3 Liter Fluid Evacuator
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   This extractor worked OK with my Volkswagen, but it did not seem to get all the oil out. However, it would not work at all with my Buick. I could not get the tube far enough down the dipstick to extract any oil.

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