My Detroits were plumbed with manual pumps and a hose running from each oil pan to a pump on each engine. I changed the oil once with the manuals. It took a lot of strokes to pump out the 16 liters of oil in each engine.
I bought a Jabsco electric oil pump and some hydraulic quik-connect fittings. I removed the hoses from the manual pumps and screwed on a quik-connect to each hose. I added a quik-connect fitting to the new oil pump hose. My Jabsco came pre-mounted to a plastic pail lid. Now when I do an oil change, I just snap the pump hose to the engine hose, plug in the 12V pump and pump out the engine into a plastic pail. I then re-fill the 4 liter oil containers with used oil to be recycled.
Hydraulic fittings are fluid-tight both male and female, unlike air fittings that are only airtight on the female coupling.
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