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• Stupid Sexist Friday Quasi-Humor.
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Fri, 9 Nov 2001 05:46:24 -0700
  ...10) Unscrew drain plug. 11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: get hot oil on you in process. 12) Clean up mess...
• Re: stripped oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:21:32 -0500
  ...boat engine to drain the oil if the engine is already at the bottom of the boat? >Stripping the oil plug seems to be...
• Re: Stripped drain plug solution?
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:18:06 -0600
  Oil Drain Plug Stripped-EEs, Search the archives on this problem. I did on my strip-out and went to my local FLAPS and...
• Re: stripped oil pan plug
  Historical mailing list - Michael Harrnacker
  Mon, 7 Dec 1998 20:37:37 -0700
  ...My mechanic sells a device called an Oil-Tite Oil Drain Plug. Size: 1/2 inch, Universal fit. It's made by a company...
• oil change humor-NO vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - Gina
  Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:18:55 -0800
  ...Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan. 26. Hurry to replace drain plug before the whole quart of fresh oil drains onto floor...
• Re: Soo- Oil Pan cracked
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:24:13 -0700
  ...As is known, the DV oilpan uses a different drain plug sealing system than conventional drain plugs. The sealing surface is at the bottom...
• Re: FYI.. oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:35:35 -0700
  ...Next oil change I'll swap the rubber gasket for a crush > washer... > > http://www.autozone.com/external-engine/engine-oil- > drain-plug/needa...
• Re: Oil drain problem
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:16:46 +0000
  ...oil > drain plug I get the plug left in a Helicoil. In other words > the helicoil or time sert unscrews with the drain plug...
• Re: oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
  Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:17:59 -0500
  ...Get the right helicoil (or other style) kit for the drain plug size. 2. Drain the oil. 3. Put grease on the drill and...
• Re: Oil Changing
  Historical mailing list - Marla Stelk
  Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:39:14 -0400
  ...to permanently replace your existing oil drain plug >>and >>allow instant oil access and draining. >> >>Twist on Drain Hose - Designed for fast, easy, twist...
• Re: Oil drain plug washer?
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:36:37 -0700
  ...I read somewhere that it's recommended to > replace the oil drain plug washer with each change. Is that really necessary > and if so...
• Re: Oil Drain Plug Seal
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 4 Sep 1996 20:33:46 PST
  Breaker one nine, Has anyone had any experience with oil drain petcocks (valves)? With the rash of oil drain plug/hole thread stripping ect...
• FRIDAY FUN...
  Historical mailing list - Kevin Carrubba
  Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:58:28 -0500
  ...10) Unscrew drain plug. 11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: splash hot oil on you in process. Cuss. 12) Crawl out...
• Oil Drain Plug, 1.9 vs. 2.1 ??
  Historical mailing list - Tom Rowsell
  Tue, 6 May 2003 10:31:39 -0330
  ...From looking at the archives, and various vendor sites, I have concluded that pre '86 waterboxer vanagons take the same oil drain plug as...
• Re: Manual transmission lesson request
  Historical mailing list - Mbob1950
  Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:55:14 -0400
  ...Remove the fill plug. Remove the drain and catch old oil. Clean drain plug and magnet and reinsert. Fill with new gear lube. And...
• Re: Oil Drain Plug, 1.9 vs. 2.1 ??
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Tue, 6 May 2003 17:11:10 +0000
  ...Oil Drain Plug, 1.9 vs. 2.1 ?? >Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:31:39 -0330 > >Hi: > >From looking at the archives, and...
• Re: Gearbox drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:17:08 +0100
  ...drain the oil ... unless of course you face the fan down a steep > hill when draining ... <g> > > The dual purpose fill/level plug is...
• stripped oil drain thread
  Historical mailing list - alfred bagdan
  Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:25:48 -0600
  Hi all, Has anyone used Permatex tread fixing compound to successfully fix the female treads in the Vanagon that hold the oil drain plug...
• Re: Oil Drain Plug, 1.9 vs. 2.1 ?? Plug removal Success !!!
  Historical mailing list - Joe Glisson
  Sat, 31 May 2003 15:04:10 -0400
  ...They worked perfectly on my totally messed up oil drain plug. I had even tried a chisel on it and it was totally screwed...
• stripped oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:27:15 -0800
  ...stripped oil drain plug Stripping the oil plug seems to be a common problem so I stopped removing the plug all together. Pumping the...
• Re: Manual transmission lesson request
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:39:08 -0400
  ...Remove the drain and catch old oil. > Clean drain plug and magnet and reinsert. > Fill with new gear lube. And insert fill plug. > > > Bob...
• Oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Normand Gagnon
  Mon, 14 Oct 96 23:56:18 -0400
  Hi, It seems that there is two lenght of the oil drain plug. The original one was said to be unsable by a dealer...
• Re: Oil drain plug now with heli-coil
  Historical mailing list - Joe
  Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:54:39 -0800
  Ben huot wrote: > Same for me, the oil drain plug is somewhat fragile, my van as 140k km and > it was strip for a...
• Re: Heli-Coil an Engine Oil Drain? / From the Real World
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:35:05 EDT
  ...At about 90,000 miles, the repair shop overtightened the oil drain plug and cracked a chip out of the oil pan near the...
• Mars vs Venus: Changing the oil
  Historical mailing list - Ryan Heidcamp
  Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:33:45 -0500
  ...Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan. >> > > 26. Hurry to replace drain plug before the whole quart of fresh oil >> > > drains onto floor...
• Re: Oil Drain Plug Leaking
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:45:23 -0700
  ...Oil Drain Plug Leaking >Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:34:09 -0500 > >When you last changed the oil was the drain plug washer...
• Re: Oil drain problem
  Historical mailing list - David Hally
  Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:36:13 -0800
  ...Always, > always use a new > copper crush gasket after removing the oil drain plug and replacing. > The > copper gaskets can only crush and seal...
• Re: oil drain plug miseries...
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:34:16 EST
  You could drain the oil from the big flat head screw looking plug in the bottom of the engine. This is for the oil...
• Re: Oil drain problem
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:33:46 -0600
  ...oil > drain plug I get the plug left in a Helicoil. In other words the > helicoil or time sert unscrews with the drain plug...
• Re: Oil drain plug stripped
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:36:34 EST
  ...Oil drain plug stripped I had gotten an oil change at a local service station around 3,000 miles ago. I went back to...
• Re: Oil drain plug now with heli-coil
  Historical mailing list - Ben huot
  Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:08:56 -0500
  Same for me, the oil drain plug is somewhat fragile, my van as 140k km and it was strip for a long time before...
• Re: A fifth spark plug?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 8 Sep 2001 20:33:02 -0500
  chrisadubs wrote: > When changing the oil on my 86 Westy, I thought the drain plug seemed > odd. It turns out that one of the...
• Mutilated Oil Drain Plug
  Historical mailing list - Tom Rowsell
  Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:03:36 -0330
  ...months ago, the oil had just been changed. I tried to change it again, but to my dismay, the drain plug is unservicable. It...
• Oil Drain Hole Stripped: 91 Westy: Solutions Needed
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Sun, 10 May 1998 09:24:00 -0500
  Volks, Somehow, (I was -very- careful) I nonetheless ending buggering the threads on my oil drain plug threaded hole. The plug (steel) is fine...
• Re: What to do with a stripped drain plug?
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:36:02 -0700
  ...If you go with the spark plug thread, then you could make a drain plug out out of an old spark plug. I have...
• Re: removing oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:51:50 -0500
  ...tonight with the motor warm, I wanted to change the > oil. The drain plug head takes a 19mm wrench but all my sockets are...
• Re: Oil Drain plug is stripped
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:12:53 -0500
  ...Oil Drain plug is stripped OK, gang when I changed the oil in Grover 2 weeks ago some of the threads from the drain...
• Re: Vanagon Diesel oil pan drain plug needed
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:00:35 -0700
  ...lucked upon an > NOS diesel oil pan, and snapped it up. Unfortunately, it did not > include > the drain plug, which is not just a...
• Pipe just to the back of oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Tim Kasher
  Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:05:30 -0500
  There is a pipe (it looks to be black) that goes to the bottom of the engine....just behind the oil drain plug...it...
• oil drain AHU diesel
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 2 Jul 2014 17:29:23 -0700
  Hi there vanagaunts, Went to change the oil for the first time on my diesel conversion, AHU. Certainly not the standard oil drain plug...
• Oil drain plug (Westy 85)
  Historical mailing list - Normand Gagnon
  Thu, 18 Apr 1996 09:23:14 -0400
  Hi, My mechanic had installed (as a patch) a spark plug as oil drain plug. He said to me that the oil pan treads...
• Re: Oil Drain Plug Leaking
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:45:31 -0500
  There are oversized oil drain plugs available at NAPA. Drain your oil, get a flashlight, lay down under your van and look at the...
• Re: Diesel Oil Pan FML
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:34:08 -0800
  ...had an oil pan that was munged at the drain. Cracked >> horribly. Got that fixed, filled and tig welded. >> >> Issue: Drain plug leaks like...
• Re: Tapping oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Joe Glisson
  Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:47:02 -0400
  If the plug is stripped, just get a new plug. I bought one recently for $2.00 - if you mean the drain hole, that...
• Re: Oil Drain Plug Size
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Sat, 8 May 2010 16:15:14 -0700
  ...P/N for 1.9 vs 2.1 "I can't seem to find the oil drain plug size ..84...1.9L Wassserbox. Anyone????
• oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:35:12 -0700
  could someone please send me a link/where to buy, a kit that will insert a striped or worse drain plug. thanks.
• Oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Robie Pierce
  Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:12:47 -0400
  ...Ever since I have a small stain of oil on my driveway. The SOBs have stripped the GD drain plug ! I have glanced over...
• Re: oil drain not snug. feels loose
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:35:04 -0500
  ...oil drain not snug. feels loose well tonight after doing my MM OIL treatment, I put my drain bolt back up and the damn...
• Re: stripped oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Wed, 2 Jun 1999 02:03:14 -0700
  ...I changed the oil in our bus this past weekend and found the oil > drain plug stripped. Actually the plug is not stripped, the...
• stripped oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - ncdragonfly
  Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:07:32 -0400
  ...I changed the oil in our bus this past weekend and found the oil drain plug stripped. Actually the plug is not stripped, the...
• Re: FYI.. oil drain plug
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:56:21 -0500
  ...a friend bough a westy and the oil drain plug, he discovered, was a sawed off spark plug. Ew. --- Richard Smith, Ph.D. Director...
• oil drain plug sealing rings?
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:10:45 -0400
  ...these on my drain plug and have had to reuse the one I've had for the last 3-4 oil changes. As expected...
• Re: type of oil and washer
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:05:47 EDT
  ...talks about installing a new copper washer on the oil drain plug when changing oil, do any of you do this? Thanks, Tony >> Tony...
• Re: Oil Drain Plug Leaking
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth D Lewis
  Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:42:45 -0400
  ...oil drain > plug. > If you install an oversized drain plug I would suggest that you > peform > all future oil changes through the oil screen...
• Differential Gear Oil Change was Re: Trans Oil ReVisited
  Historical mailing list - Bobby Brown
  Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:09:06 -0400
  ...have a drain plug. Feel free to drop the pan if you want, but I always suck out as much gear oil as I...
• risking wrath, but it's Friday...
  Historical mailing list - Todd Kaderabek
  Fri, 5 May 2000 12:34:34 -0400
  ...10) Unscrew drain plug. 11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: get hot oil on you in process. 12) Clean up mess...
• Re: Oil drain plug washer?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:15:40 -0700
  ...My current van has the diesel oil drain plug...Can't say as I can figure out why they made that one...complicated and...
• Re: oil change humor-NO vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - John
  Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:40:39 -0500
  ...Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan. > > 26. Hurry to replace drain plug before the whole quart of fresh oil > > drains onto floor...
• Re: Vanagon Diesel oil pan drain plug needed
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:57:43 -0700
  ...lucked upon an > NOS diesel oil pan, and snapped it up. Unfortunately, it did not > include > the drain plug, which is not just a...
• Replacing gear oil
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:46:22 -0800
  ...where I might drain and replace transmission oil. I have a photo of what appears to be a drain plug at the bottom of...