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you're in the middle of an oil change and the unthinkable happens
the oil plug or the drain pan strips out i was doing oil change and i noticed the bolt
was a little rounded out and went to go tighten it and lo and behold
the pan stripped out so either
in this situation either the pan can strip out or the bolt threads get strip out in this situation
it's an aluminum pan with a steel bolt so the aluminum pulled out and if you can see in there it
actually pulled the entire cut threads in so i'll pause it and back these threads out and show you
if you see there the threads are pulled out i just held them and backed them out and they broke you
see i pulled the threads right out of the oil pan there's only really two things you can do in this
situation and hopefully you didn't fill it with oil you know not realize it so you can replace
the oil pan which in most cars and in this v6 is not fun or you can go and buy a oversized plug
that will cut new threads into the oil pan which is what we're gonna do today so i'm gonna head
out to the auto parts store get one of those plugs and we'll see if we can fix this thing
okay we got the bolt we went and picked it up at the local heart our auto parts store is the
m14 by 1.50 and so i believe stands for service oversize it is taller and slightly fatter it's
just the same thread pitch though so the object is to hopefully that it goes deeper into the pan
and grabs some of the threads that are left and cuts some new ones as it goes in and the little
cross in there is to collect the um shavings as you go in so we want to send it up in there
without the gasket all the way in snug it and then back it out and clean out all the threads
let's get that done and that is the part number that fits most hondas
make sure you know what size your drain plug is because that helps you find the size that you need
if not the auto parts store should be able to find it for you so we're gonna get this thing installed
okay we finished tapping this into the oil pan it went in great a couple things i want to note
when you're threading it in you want to go in the exact same way the plug was going so if it was at
a little angle make sure you follow whichever the way the pan is going um this one happened
to be straight on in and about every two or three turns of getting it tight i would back it out take
it out and clean all these threads out and then i go in and it got easier and then two or three
more turns back out clean it two or three more turns back it out and clean it so it took about
10 minutes to actually thread the entire thing and the reason why you want to do it without the
gasket is because you want to have a little extra thread in there for when you do put this on it's
going to crush the gasket slightly and you don't want to have any um issues with the with this end
going in there and not threading all the way up so we'll clean out the drain plug area wipe it
out really well get all the shavings out you can if there are any left and thread this up in there
all right we got the drain plug in there nice and snug don't over tighten it
now we'll fill it back up with oil and check for leaks
okay we ran the car for about 10 minutes and as you can see there are no oil leaks let me see
if i can get a better focus on that there we go as you can see there's no oil leaks everything is dry
and the plug did work so if you strip your oil pan drain hole or the oil pan bolt itself don't worry
it can be repaired hope this helps thanks for watching please subscribe