Date:         Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:45:25 -0700
Reply-To:     George Wietor <wietorg@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         George Wietor <wietorg@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil drain plug and Heli-coil
Comments: To: arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM
In-Reply-To:  <OFE6AC00FF.B0CD0FD1-ON86256A64.0009E5BC@ra.rockwell.com>
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Yes, I buy the washers from list venders when I buy a
bunch of filters.
Might be able to make some from impervious
plastic,too.
Lots of FLAPS sell them- lots of sizes for fuel and
other auto systems.
I replace the crushers each time I pull the plug. And
save 'em for the next world-wide copper shortage. Geo.

--- Alan Bosch <arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM> wrote:
> Volks,
> Some time ago, in Phred's distant and troubled past,
> some goof-ball,
> air-gun-toting, quicky lube-jiffy change,
> looking-for-the-engine-under-the-FRONT-of-the-bus
> type, mechanic (HA!!),
> musta cross threaded the oil drain plug back into
> the case (or maybe it was
> a dealer tech...?).  Anyhoo...  there's a heli-coil
> in the hole, as I found
> out over the weekend, and the copper crush washer
> used with the drain bolt
> does not seem to seal very vell, resulting in little
> drips of oil that my
> two-year-old started playing with today.
>
> Is it possible to get these crush washers in
> different sizes?  List
> vendors?  Or just FLAP-it...?
>
> Alan Bosch
> & Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)


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