So I've been using different gaskets on my original drain plug for years.
Sometime in the past someone inserted it cockeyed and ever since it has slowly leaked.
I got tired of replacing the gaskets, they only kind of worked. They always weeped, very slowly, due to them being seated cockeyed.
Long story short, I went out and bought an oversized drain plug. After trying to get it to fit by working it in and out of the oil pan for 45 minutes, and worrying about the seal of my drain pan as I see it flex as I torque that thing back and forth, I called it a day.
I wanted the oversized drain plug to fit, but I didn't have the muscle, patience, or the fortitude to watch the oil pan flex any more.
So I went and picked up one of those universal drain hole bongs. The one that you twist and it expands like the keeper for a wine bottle.
It seems to work well.
Has anyone else had the issue I'm having?
I just couldn't figure out what else to do.
This is on a 2002 Ford Taurus, with the Vulcan SOHC and 206,000 miles young.
Sometime in the past someone inserted it cockeyed and ever since it has slowly leaked.
I got tired of replacing the gaskets, they only kind of worked. They always weeped, very slowly, due to them being seated cockeyed.
Long story short, I went out and bought an oversized drain plug. After trying to get it to fit by working it in and out of the oil pan for 45 minutes, and worrying about the seal of my drain pan as I see it flex as I torque that thing back and forth, I called it a day.
I wanted the oversized drain plug to fit, but I didn't have the muscle, patience, or the fortitude to watch the oil pan flex any more.
So I went and picked up one of those universal drain hole bongs. The one that you twist and it expands like the keeper for a wine bottle.
It seems to work well.
Has anyone else had the issue I'm having?
I just couldn't figure out what else to do.
This is on a 2002 Ford Taurus, with the Vulcan SOHC and 206,000 miles young.