

| Subject: | Re: Oil drain plug and Heli-coil <f> |
| From: | Steven Johnson |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:02:02 -0700 |
Okay Alan. Nobody mentioned it, but I have to
ask. Is it my (mis)understanding that you're
enlisting your 2 year old to do your oil changes
for you? Preposterous you exclaim? Well, with
a last name like yours, it just seems possible...
;)
Steven
--- Alan Bosch <arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM> wrote:
> Volks,
> Some time ago, in Phred's distant and troubled past,
> some goof-ball,
> air-gun-toting, quicky lube-jiffy change,
> looking-for-the-engine-under-the-FRONT-of-the-bus
> type, mechanic (HA!!),
> musta cross threaded the oil drain plug back into
> the case (or maybe it was
> a dealer tech...?). Anyhoo... there's a heli-coil
> in the hole, as I found
> out over the weekend, and the copper crush washer
> used with the drain bolt
> does not seem to seal very vell, resulting in little
> drips of oil that my
> two-year-old started playing with today.
>
> Is it possible to get these crush washers in
> different sizes? List
> vendors? Or just FLAP-it...?
>
> Alan Bosch
> & Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)
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