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Is there a way to drain the oil from the oil coolers?

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Old 02-17-2006, 07:18 PM
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Is there a way to drain the oil from the oil coolers?

Just wondering if there is a way to change all the oil in my engine.

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When I switched over to synthetic I drained the oil coolers and lines....it was a PIA and not worth the effort. They only held at most another quart. It is easier and more effective to just do a few quick back to back oil changes to get rid of most of the old oil
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I've tried jacking up the car to get oil out of the coolers. It did not work too well.

Go with what dannobre said.
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It took me about two hours to remove the front bumper, the shrouding in front of the coolers...open the cooler lines..blow out with compressed air..

and like I said above only netted about another litre of oil...not worth it. i wouldn't have bothered except i was fabricating brackets for another oil cooler and had to do remove everything anyway. And it made a big mess that I had to clean up after
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Thank's for saving me some work..
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