Used oil pump

[bdog]

I have a roll around drain with an air evacuation that I use for vehicles on my lift but I bought a metal 20 gallon roll around floor drain pan for my tractor, semi, backhoe, and dump truck. It works great to drain into but I am striking out on finding a pump to get the oil from it into my 275 gallon used oil container.

I tried a drill pump it worked for about five gallons. I bought a 12 volt pump and it pumped it empty one time and the next time I tried it would not work.

The pan has a ball valve and a 1/2" barbed fitting on the bottom. What can I. It to reliably pump this oil up about 4 feet into a tank?

 

[redmondjp]

Have you thought about using a drum pump? There are different types, both hand-operated and electric. I don't know how much oil you need to pump how often, which would dictate which type would be most appropriate for you.

 

[Super Mech]

Look up "waste cooking oil pump" or "waste vegetable oil pump" on YouTube. People are making these pumps from small block Chevy engine oil pumps. Self priming and best of all you throw one together for not a lot of money.

 

[tjdux]

Im guessing your other pumps failed due to thick viscosity and possibly any metal shavings. Both of those pumps I feel are for thin, light liquids (water for the drill pump and fuel for the 12v pump).

The suggestion about using an oil pump from an engine looks pretty solid and obvously should work for oil.

Signiture; Check out my garage progress http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352703

 

[takotruckin]

I've run a few hundred gallons of waste oil through one of these with no issues.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/pr...0-series-diaphragm-pump-standard?cm_vc=-10005

 

[brownbagg]

fuel injector fuel pump electric

 

[04chase]

ive pumped 1000's of gallons with this

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200323328_200323328

or for colder climate this would work

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200323332_200323332

 

[Firebrick43]

Can you post a pic of your pan. Some pans can be closed off with a plug. If so you could use a regulator and pressurize the pan forcing the oil out the hose.

Conversely if your storage tank is of sufficient strength you can pull a vacuum through it and pull the oil into it just like your other oil evacuation tank. As long as you don't pull a deep vac and close anything off this would be fast and nothing would be in contact with the oil to wear. You could either use a Venturi vacuum generator http://www.air-vac-store.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AS&Product_Code=AVR112M&Category_Code=AVR

Or one could even plumb their air compressors intake to pull the vacuum.

 

[Sureshot]

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91264

Here is one someone else did.

 

[Sureshot]

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=224820

I built another of these after and had it in the bottom of a barrel and it worked great both to **** oil out of catch pans and to pump it into pails to get rid of.

 

[MBfreak]

The 12 V electric fuel pumps are easy to jam and also do not like to pump high viscosity fluids, never mind how clean the fluid may be. I tried it on clean oil and the coupling between the motor and the pump broke down after just a few hours.

I have rebuilt a lathe ( Profila 1K62)that had a terribly noisy plunger pump for the spindle gearbox ( wonderful unit , 35 speeds between 12,5 and 2200 rpm, multidisc fwd and reverse clutches). I took a steering service ( from an Alfa 164!!) and hooked it up to an 150 W motor running at 200 rpm. Works great. If you intend to use it as a transfer pump for used oil, I would put a good inline oil filter on the suction line. And the pump yupe does not like lift on the suction side, so place it low.

Best regards ¨
Ola