Damn oil drain plug

[LGAFF]

Once the plug is out, send everyone a video of you going mid-evil on it, like the fax machine in office space!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svvc47Tr0R8

[Dynomite]

Originally Posted by LGAFF

Once the plug is out, send everyone a video of you going mid-evil on it, like the fax machine in office space!

You obviously misunderstood how we (I and 32valvesftw) did it
We can explain it to you but not understand it for you

[gbrtng]

here's what you need - just suck the oil out:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Engine-Oil-R...IAAOSwLVZV1NUP

[PhillipsLT5]

http://www.mityvac.com/pages/products_fee.asp

[G-Sting]

Originally Posted by LGAFF

Once the plug is out, send everyone a video of you going mid-evil on it, like the fax machine in office space!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svvc47Tr0R8

Y'all seem really to being enjoying this thread.

Of course we've all been there in one form or another - wrestling with a stubborn bolt, breaking one, rounding off the head, etc.

On another vehicle after an oil change, I put in the old drain plug (and shouldn't have) and when it bottomed out, it just spun and spun - wouldn't tighten. Nor would it come back out one bit!

Called a friend who has about seen it all, and we ended up dropping the oil pan, drilling the bolt from the center outwards, and collapsing it on itself. Replaced with new bolt, oil pan gasket, etc. Fun times, indeed.

[WVZR-1]

Originally Posted by G-Sting

Called a friend who has about seen it all, and we ended up dropping the oil pan, drilling the bolt from the center outwards, and collapsing it on itself. Replaced with new bolt, oil pan gasket, etc. Fun times, indeed.

The LT5 if it's got an OE plug could be done this way from the inside and only requiring an extractor/easy-out because the OE/GM plug has a counter bore on it.

To the counter-bore from the face of the hex is something less that 1/2" and the counter bore is 3/8" SO.. if you drilled close to center and worked up to 3/8" you could drain the pan and insert an extractor with little problem from the outside OR continue on and increase the diameter as you wish to whatever you felt you needed.

*** Cliff - I have 11 NOS and a 12 point M14 will "FIT NONE"

[LGAFF]

I had an epic battle with an oil filter...pics are here somewhere....torn in half trying to remove it from the LT-5. Had to use a punch to drive it off....I feel your pain

[Dynomite]

Originally Posted by WVZR-1

The LT5 if it's got an OE plug could be done this way from the inside and only requiring an extractor/easy-out because the OE/GM plug has a counter bore on it.

To the counter-bore from the face of the hex is something less that 1/2" and the counter bore is 3/8" SO.. if you drilled close to center and worked up to 3/8" you could drain the pan and insert an extractor with little problem from the outside OR continue on and increase the diameter as you wish to whatever you felt you needed.

*** Cliff - I have 11 NOS and a 12 point M14 will "FIT NONE"

Great Idea Dave....I am watching and learning
Oh...Dave.....I have tried 6 oil pans (5 istalled on the LT5s) and ALL six Oil Drain Plugs (all installed in Oil Pans) take a 12 pt 14mm Flex Head open end socket wrench perfectly. I feel so sorry for you and anyone having all those NOS Oil Drain Plugs that do not take a 14 mm open end wrench. And....that 14mm Flex Head Open End Socket wrench fits so nice and tight with almost no play.

Happy New Year Dave and anyone watching us

An EPIC Battle would be one in which if the battle did not work out you have to remove the engine

[32valvesftw]

The worst that comes to memory, Jeep Cherokee, broken rear shock bolts, snapped off in frame/body. Total of 16 hrs labor to remove/replace.

[LGAFF]