oil drain plug what?

[juliemac57@hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

Good job Josh. Thats VW people for you



Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
Internet Application Developer
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Amsterdam NY





>From: "Josh20V" <mkii@nycap.rr.com>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: oil drain plug what?
>Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 00:33:57 -0400
>
>So anyways, this post doesnt have a Scirocco in it, in case that is a live
>or die issue for somebody. :D
>
>
>I drove over to CT today to pick up a donor Head, and wiring/etc for my
>2.0/18 16v swap into Caddy #2. To get to where I was going you have to go
>from Albany NY, into Massachusetts, and then south into Connecticut.. I get
>down, meet Brian, get the engine in the back of Caddy #1, and head home.
>Gotta love 70 hp :D
>
>So Im right at the MA/NY border getting ready to get onto Interstate 90 to
>head back to Albany, and I look over at this gas station, and what do I 
>see?
>A silver VR6 Corrado parked with the hood open. Well, pull a U-turn and 
>head
>over to see what's going on. I pull up, and its an older guy with his early
>20s son, the 1st thing I notice is the pool of oil under the car. The 
>father
>gets out, and we start to talk. He said the oil light had just come on
>suddenly, so he got off the highway, pulled in and parked where he now sat,
>and he had no clue what was wrong but he had called AAA. My 1st step to
>diagnosing the issue was to ask when the last time he had the car serviced.
>Oddly enough it had been into a VW repair facility just 2 days prior 
>getting
>an oil change. As with anybody reading this, the bells in my head went off!
>I crawled under the car, and what did my finger find? A nice open hole in
>the back of the oil pan. Great I thought,  I can pull the plug off the
>engine I had in the back of the Caddy, but of course that idea wasn't very
>sound,  since it wasn't the right thread pattern..
>
>So picture this, sitting on the border of NY, and MA and about 40+ miles
>from the closest parts supply that I could think of.  After using my cell 
>to
>see if anybody had a better idea, I went off on the great drain plug search
>of 2003. Amazingly as I was going past a closed (and very hick) Ford
>dealership in W.Stockbridge, I noticed a bay open, and cruised in. A tech
>was working on his personal car and had no problems setting me up with the
>right plug. I barrow a socket and ratchet and headed beck, got the guy
>patched up, got oil in it, and it purred like a VR. :D
>
>I think the highlight of it all was when I figured out that the plug I had
>would not fit, the son (speaking for about the only time) asked if we could
>just tape the drain over.......
>
>Josh Able
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