When that happened on one of my earlier vans - air-cooled, long before I
really knew much about them -  I used a sparking plug to fill the hole.
Ran it that way until I sold it. As I recall, there was just enough
thread to catch, and the plug was ever so slightly bigger - so it cut in
as it was screwed in. Long time a go - details are a bit fuzzy now, but
it worked.

John

On 7/10/2013 1:12 AM, Scott Ohana wrote:
> yup..
> that happens sometimes.
> Not too commonly.
> One of the vanagons I have cared for over the last few years has that
> issue.
> 50 others do not.
>
>
> On 7/9/2013 11:00 PM, C Snyder wrote:
>> I had an almost bad experience today with my 1987  Vanagon's oil plug.
>>
>>
>> I had taken it to where I usually take my van for repairs and oil
>> changes. In a short while they came and told me that when they went to
>> replace the oil plug, the plug stripped out in the bottom of the
>> engine. I really do not understand this as I have never had any
>> problems with the plug. they said that since that plug has been taken
>> out so many times, that because it is aluminum, and the plug is steel
>> that some times they will strip out the threads.
>>
>>
>> To fix it, they were able to put in an over sized "Piggy back" oil
>> plug. It seems to be ding fine but, am just wondering if any one else
>> has ever had this type of problem as I have been on this list several
>> years but, have never heard it mentioned here before.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any ones opinion on this.
>>
>>
>> Chris S.
>>
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