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Re: '05 ARC; stripped oil drain plug bolt head
Posted by LesH [Email] (more from LesH) on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:41:46
In Reply to: '05 ARC; stripped oil drain plug bolt head, Dag, Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:59:18
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Get a new drain plug and gasket; grab a big plumber's pipe wrench; get plug all nice and hot with propane (don't melt the pan!) and have at 'er.
All else fails, you can center punch the bolt, drill through with small bit, let the oil drain out, then enlarge the hole with successively larger bits. At some point it will be loose enough to turn it out with an extractor.
DON'T use the extractor until it's loose! Get the extractor broken in there and you're pulling the pan to take it to a machine shop....
Car securely supported with lots of clearance though..... don't need to knock it off the stands while you're underneath!
Posts in this Thread:
- '05 ARC; stripped oil drain plug bolt head, Dag, Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:59:18
- '05 ARC; stripped oil drain plug bolt head - RESOLVED, Dag, Thu, 5 Nov 2009 06:27:16
- Pipe wrench.., AlS, Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:17:49
- Once fixed, get one of these..., cryptical, Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:20:28
- Been there done that....., Herb Hirsch
, Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:35:26 - Or, you could suck the oil out..., Whirligigmike, Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:32:10
- I'm sure you know this, but..., Phil, Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:06:19
- Re: '05 ARC; stripped oil drain plug bolt head, Brooks G, Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:03:44
- Re: '05 ARC; stripped oil drain plug bolt head, LesH, Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:41:46 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: '05 ARC; stripped oil drain plug bolt head, rc, Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:40:17
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