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- From: lihan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bruce G. Bostwick)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Oil Drain Plug Is Stuck
- Keywords: oil car
- Message-ID: <76707@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 17:54:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ut-emx.76707
- References: <1992Jul27.152113.1691@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- In article <1992Jul27.152113.1691@hubcap.clemson.edu> jayc@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jay Crawford) writes:
- >When I went to change my oil in my new car, I realized that when the dealer
- >serviced it, they must have tightened to oil drain plug too tight, because it
- >just won't budge. And to make matters worse, the bolt head is starting to
- >strip. Any suggestions on how to free this thing up? I've got a new plug, but
- >can't get the old one out! Thanks.
-
- Use these tools in the following order:
-
- 1. BOX END (not open end) wrench (six-point if you can get one)
- 2. pipe wrench (not a crescent and not a pair of Vice-Grips)
- 3. bite the bullet and drill it for an easy-out.
-
- If you can get it off with the box-end, it might still be serviceable
- but inspect the threads closely. If it takes a pipe wrench or a screw
- extractor it's gone for good (and, incidentally, so are the mating
- threads in your sump! make sure they're tapped and helicoiled before
- putting the new one in..) The pipe wrench should get it because they
- tighten automatically when you pull so they shouldn't strip the hex
- head any more than it already is, although they MURDER the flats.
-
- --
- <BGB>
- lihan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu / "I can't complain,
- (really Bruce Bostwick) / but sometimes I still do"
- from the great state of TEXAS / --Joe Walsh--
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