Posted by JD Seller on June 30, 2017 at 17:13:26 from (208.126.196.24):
In Reply to: Success! posted by Bob Bancroft on June 30, 2017 at 07:04:33:
Bob we do this all of the time on the hydraulic tanks on combines. If you have to replace a suction line draining all the oil and refilling it takes lots of time and labor. We made a intermediate bottle/bucket/trap to suck through so you do not get any oil in your vacuum cleaner at all. Just take an empty five gallon bucket that still has the lid. Remove the lid and put two PCV fittings in the lid that match the size of your vacuum cleaner hose. Make one of them go to almost the bottom of the bucket, this is your inlet from the tank. Put the lid back on the bucket. Hook the vacuum cleaner to the short fitting on the bucket. Then take another vacuum hose and hook it to the fitting with the longer tube. This hose you attach to your tank.
The fit to the tank needs to be fairly air tight but not perfect to work. I usually just duct tape the vacuum hose to the tank filler.
PS was doing this one time on a end loader with a 100 gallon hydraulic tank. It had a three inch suction line out the bottom we were replacing. Just about done and the shop vac trip the circuit breaker. Got quite the lap full of hydraulic oil real fast. LOL My pants and underwear sure did not rust for awhile. I slammed my hand over the fitting and another mechanic reset the breaker. We found out later that another mechanic had used the same circuit on large hand grinder. I finished the job had just went around back of the shop and stripped off everything below the waist. Made a kilt out of my work jacket to drive home in. I did not even try to wash the pants as they were so oil soaked.
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