Access to pump out engine oil

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flybobbie

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 Stourbridge
Have a pump that could be used to pump out engine oil, but obviously no oil dip stick tube.
Does anyone know a way it could be done?
Looking on BMW OEM showed a plug on the side of the sump, thinking that might be used, but physical check shows no plug on my car.
Looks like there is a hex plug at the front of the engine, probably used to set timing, but probably behind the front vee belt pulley.
Pity there is not a straight through drain hole from the filler cap camshaft area to the sump.
 
flybobbie said:
Have a pump that could be used to pump out engine oil, but obviously no oil dip stick tube.
Does anyone know a way it could be done?
Looking on BMW OEM showed a plug on the side of the sump, thinking that might be used, but physical check shows no plug on my car.
Looks like there is a hex plug at the front of the engine, probably used to set timing, but probably behind the front vee belt pulley.
Pity there is not a straight through drain hole from the filler cap camshaft area to the sump.
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So your car doesn't have a sump plug then ??
What engine is it,
 
It has a sump plug in the usual place, but realoem shows one on the side that I could have access to from the engine bay, if it were actually there, item 6-7 http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=LM32-EUR-05-2009-E89-BMW-Z4_23i&diagId=11_3994, but it isn't.
 
Yes but that means lifting the car and I have lost access to a ramp I used, so now it will have to be the curb and house bricks, wood or similar. Would have been a few minutes job if the stupid car had been fitted with a dip stick.
 
flybobbie said:
Yes but that means lifting the car and I have lost access to a ramp I used, so now it will have to be the curb and house bricks, wood or similar. Would have been a few minutes job if the stupid car had been fitted with a dip stick.
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Buy a trolley jack, that's what I use. I really think that sucking oil out doesn't remove particles that can sit in the sump.
 
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