So I got my oil changed today...

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: Antisocial Virge

Originally posted by: thehstrybean
Well, just got back from Autozone. My pan plug is 5/8", and the guy gave me a 1/2" one to oversize it...Hopefully I can install it tomorrow...if it doesn't rain...

How is that gonna work? If your pan plug is 5/8" then the new one is even smaller.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Think you have a leak now? Wait until you put that 1/2" plug in a 5/8" hole

 

[thehstrybean]

Damn...that's true...I just checked autozone and they have the OEM plug size at 5/8"...crap...

EDIT: But Advance Auto has it at 1/2"....and google has nothing!

 

[sao123]

Take it to a garage and have it fixed... then take the bill to the place which changed your oil. Demand that they pay it, or sue them.

 

[DaWhim]

iirc, they have a magnetic drain plug for something like this.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
iirc, they have a magnetic drain plug for something like this.

magnetic drain plugs are to collect metal shavings in the oil...

 

[Colt45]

So you can change the oil in the diff by yourself, but not the engine oil?

anyways, proper way to do it would be to pull the pan, and weld in a nut

cheap way would be to oversize it.. but you'll have to tap it, and hopefully not get metal filings in the pan.. which will happen. lol

 

[Howard]

Damn, man, your Cliffs are longer than the actual post.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Was this done at Jiffy Lube?

 

[compuwiz1]

Looks like one of their "elite $6 per hour grease monkeys" stripped out your plug man. Go straight back there, and let em have it. Too much torque on an oil drain plug is bad....mmmkay?

 

[0roo0roo]

ouch, suv should be easier too right? don't really have to jack it up to reach the plug and leave a pan under...