Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:44:33 -0400
Reply-To: Frank Romano <fromano99@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Frank Romano <fromano99@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Oil plug
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My 1.9 plug is completely deformed. Instead of using vise grips our other
methods, I siphon the ol out of the dipstick. a bit of a pain but it keeps
me out of the striped oil plug game. I have wondered if there is a down
side to siphoning instead of draining the oil in the long run
On Jul 10, 2013 1:39 PM, "OlRivrRat" <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
> Alister
>
> Correction ~ H2OBoxers ( that came with a Van' ) were 83.5 - 91 so
> that would be @Most 30YrsOld & @Least 22YrsOld ~ {:~)
>
> Definitely like your solution to the OilPlugStrip issue ~
>
>
> ORR ~ DeanB
>
> On 10 Jul , 2013, at 8:07 AM, Alistair Bell wrote:
>
> But Dave, you wrote "that's what that washer is for, to take that
>> force to keep it from damaging the threads."
>>
>> :)
>>
>> One does not always get a copper crush washer with either a gasket
>> set or if you ask at parts counter. Quite often it is a flat copper
>> washer which does not have any crush at all.
>>
>> The drain plug is an iffy design in my opinion. It is too easy to
>> strip the threads in the case. Steel plug into an aluminum hole is
>> asking for trouble sooner or later. Especially since now most of our
>> WBX engines are at least 32 years old, and if the oil has been
>> changed regularly, the plug has been in and out more than 64 times.
>>
>> I stripped my plug last month, just after I got my engine back into
>> the van (head job). I had been very careful with that plug. As a
>> stop gap, till I get a timesert or similar insert installed, I made
>> a new plug with longer shaft to engage the few un-damaged threads
>> left in case. The stock plug does not seem to use up all the
>> available threads.
>>
>> I took a 14 mm (thread size) bolt, that was longer than the drain
>> plug, drilled and tapped for a 10 mm bolt. The 10 mm bolt (13 mm
>> head size) screws into the larger bolt. I turned down the head of
>> the larger bolt so that it would fit in the recess in the case).
>> Made a Delrin washer instead of using a copper washer, and ended up
>> with a new plug that was longer and caught some of the remaining un
>> stripped threads in the case.
>>
>> http://shufti.files.wordpress.**com/2013/06/img_2311.jpg<http://shufti.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/img_2311.jpg>
>>
>> It is working fine, no drips.
>>
>> alistair
>>
>
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