oil drain plug threads stripped

[dr_patso]

Nah, you can install it dry.

Cool thanks!

[dr_patso]

cleaned off mating surfaces very carefully with brake cleaner and razor blade. Installed new/used pan with brand new gasket and oil plug seemed to thread good. I torqued them down very carefully (used a screw driver type of wrench for the oil pan bolts). I turned the new oil plug and crush washer until it started to get slightly hard to turn. No leaks and running good!

[slipperymongoose]

Great result

[Erika]

I bet it was stripped because the PO didn't know to change the crush washer.

[ohgood]

I bet it was stripped because the PO didn't know to change the crush washer.

I have installed one crush washer, in 30 years of oil changes.

I'm leaning more towards a ham fisted fool with "getrdun" on his hat, and "tighterisbetter" for a mantra.

broken threads= someone screwed up. period. not a product failure, not a crush washer issue.

orings= wtf were they thinking ? an oring on a compression bolt ? no, bad dog !

helicoils= PROPERLY INSTALLED, works forever, until the first time getrdun overtightens it.

timeserts= see helicoil



if I were in the ops position, i'd helicoil the spare oil pan and hang it on the wall.

[gsJack]

I've never replaced a crush washer in 29 years and 400k miles of bike oil changes or in the many decades of car oil changes which I quit doing my own 20 years ago, just do the bike now.

[weedahoe]

LoL....I just threw out 3 good oil pans with bolts

[The Buddha]

LoL....I just threw out 3 good oil pans with bolts

I think I tossed ~2 into storage along wiht a few million oher POS'es in the last 2-3 weeks.

But anyway to the OP if you tap it to a larger size - it would be fine ... but helicoil usually does not have enough thickness in 1 side of the pan to grip and work right.


Cool.
Buddha.

[dr_patso]

Thanks guys! I am pretty proud of the fix! I am not mechanically inclined. Last time I worked on something it was an early 90s eagle talon, I forgot to tighten the auto tensioner down after replacing the water pump and timing belt and the belt ripped off and bent the cams.

I got new tires and I am trying to get a new front brake pad tomorrow and I am leaving from Boise, ID to Crater Lake in Oregon to meet my cousin from California who has an SV650.