Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:08:31 -0500
Reply-To: mcneely4@COX.NET
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Oil plug
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---- Frank Romano <fromano99@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 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
I doubt that you siphon as much out as you would drain out, but how much difference it makes, I don't know. mcneely
> 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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David McNeely
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