Stripped the oil plug bolt on my Focus. Letting it soak in Liquid Wrench while I figure out how to get it out.
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Stripped the oil plug bolt on my Focus. Letting it soak in Liquid Wrench while I figure out how to get it out.
"There are no finger prints under water."
Anyone remember the name of the oil plugs that use a lever instead of a screw? I want to get one for each of our cars...
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stripped as in rounded off or stripped as in cross threaded in? IF you cannot get a flat jawed Vise Grips (R) to work, while applying low heat to pan. . Plan B center punch the plug, drill through in 2-3 increments, then use a GOOD screw extractor. See if bobbyz has a snap-on spline type extractor. Ir not i can have one down to you monday-tuesday.Originally Posted by Irving
This is choice A
choice B
This style breaks when you don't want it to
OR wait till tomorrw and bring it to one of those quick change places, let them deal with it
Last edited by Great-Kazoo; 07-05-2014 at 19:28.
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"when you're happy you enjoy the melody but, when you're broken you understand the lyrics".
Oh hell, I was in that thread, don't have time to get one before the trip. Fumoto valve.
Jim, I've got some easy outs, but am worried that if the bolt is so tight that it'd round off the head with a wrench, that an easy out won't have a chance.
Don't think my first thought wasn't to drop it off at a Firestone...
Last edited by Irving; 07-05-2014 at 19:37.
"There are no finger prints under water."
What is everybody up to?
Made my first trailer load of my crap to the new pad, financed a new bed set from Innomax.....it gets delivered and assembled next Saturday. Helped the wife unload 1300 bricks in the 90+ heat, that was fun.
Bummer on the oil pan woes, Irving. If you weren't heading out on a trip, I'd help you get the plug out. I'm unclear if you rounded off the head of the drain plug, but that's what I'm thinking happened? I have some socket rails designed for shit like that.
Don't think my first thought wasn't to drop it off at a Firestone... was it one of those butt holes that got the plug too damn tight in the first place?
I'm taking in this WD marathon...I still like that show.
YO YO YO HO's!
Bob Dole.
Howdy, Man !!
Thanks! I'm going to go order one right now before I forget.
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
I looked at that valve, good idea for a lot of folks I suppose, but I wouldn't get 'em.
Howdy HB, doing another fire tonight? I sure do dig fire pit time...I'm taking my little fire pit thingy with me.
BOB "no digity" DOLE up in da hezay for shezay.
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