This is what I did. Scared the living daylights out of me when I did it,
though. (I practiced first on a hole in a lawn mower blade to see how
it'd work.) After using the tap, I poured MMO through to get the
remaining metal shavings out. This has held wonderfully well - but be
careful not to go too far (I almost did - the pipe plug is up there
pretty far and it isn't leaking like the over single oversized plug I
had with two washers to keep the oversized plug head far enough out of
the recess).

In "V"anagon "W"esty love, light, & laughter,
Jay
'87 Westy (Missouri)
339K miles

Daniel L. Katz wrote:

>as per an archive suggestion, another fix is to drill and tap for a 3/8
>pipe plug. a 3/8 pipe plug has worked well for years and many oil changes
>in our '84, which had a leaky, and eventually stripped, stock drain plug.
>
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