Fixing oil pan?

[maardak@yahoo.ca (Mardak)]

Are you absolutely sure the oil pan is stripped and not the plug?  I'm
not sure about our cars on this, but I was under the impression that
most oil pan plugs are made of a softer metal so the plug will strip
before the pan...  I'd try a new plug first.

Mark.

--- Eric Anastas <aireq@softhome.net> wrote:
> A few weeks ago I went to change the oil in my car ('86 8v) for the
> first
> time since I bought it a few months ago. I started unscrewing the oil
> drain
> plug, and was suprised at how easy it was to turn. It kept turning
> and
> turning, but wasn't comming out of the oil pan any further. So looks
> like
> it's stripped. Soooo
> 
> 1) I could just drill out the old hole and cut new threads with a
> tap/die (I
> always forget which is which). And of course get a new bolt
> 
> 2) Just get a new oil pan.
> 
> Regardless of what I do, I'm trying to figure out a *CLEAN*
> (controled
> stream) way of getting the oil in the engine out. ( The best thing I
> can
> think of is to just unscrew the oil filter, but then there will still
> be oil
> in oil pan. So who's got a suggestion?
> 
> Oh and also. I'm in seattle, where the summer climate ranges from
> 70-90,
> what kind of oil should I put in my car? I looked in the bentely but
> it
> really didn't seem straight forward. Either SAE 20W-50 or SAE 20W-40
> for the
> multi grade oils.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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