oil drain plug what?

[brianm@earendel.org (Brian McGarvey)]

What Josh actually turned a wrench? nah couldnt be..
Brian ...


On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Julie Macfarlane wrote:

> Good job Josh. Thats VW people for you
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> Julie Macfarlane
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> >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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> >87 Scirocco 1.8t 20v
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> >82 Caddy
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